Played at
R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo, on 31 January 2009 – day/night (50-over match)
Result
India won by 15 runs
Series
India led the 5-match series 2-0
Player of the match – Ishant Sharma
| India innings (50 overs maximum) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | |||
| V Sehwag | run out (Muralitharan/Jayasuriya/Thushara) | 42 | 58 | 26 | 7 | 0 | 161.53 | ||
| SR Tendulkar | lbw b Kulasekara | 6 | 11 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 66.66 | ||
| G Gambhir | c |
27 | 31 | 28 | 4 | 0 | 96.42 | ||
| Yuvraj Singh | lbw b Kulasekara | 66 | 100 | 88 | 7 | 1 | 75.00 | ||
| SK Raina | c Kapugedera b Dilshan | 29 | 74 | 43 | 0 | 1 | 67.44 | ||
| MS Dhoni | c |
23 | 55 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 65.71 | ||
| YK Pathan | run out (Kulasekara) | 21 | 33 | 28 | 2 | 0 | 75.00 | ||
| Z Khan | c Dilshan b Mendis | 17 | 35 | 23 | 0 | 1 | 73.91 | ||
| P Kumar | c Jayawardene b Mendis | 15 | 22 | 21 | 1 | 0 | 71.42 | ||
| PP Ojha | not out | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | ||
| Extras | (lb 1, w 8, nb 1) | 10 | |||||||
| Total | (9 wickets; 50 overs; 214 mins) | 256 | (5.12 runs per over) | ||||||
| Did not bat I Sharma |
| Fall of wickets1-13 (Tendulkar, 2.4 ov), 2-62 (Gambhir, 9.3 ov), 3-83 (Sehwag, 12.2 ov), 4-168 (Raina, 31.1 ov), 5-180 (Yuvraj Singh, 33.1 ov), 6-219 (Pathan, 41.6 ov), 7-223 (Dhoni, 44.3 ov), 8-256 (Kumar, 49.5 ov), 9-256 (Khan, 49.6 ov) |
| Bowling | O |
M | R | W | Econ | ||
| KMDN Kulasekara | 9 |
0 | 61 | 2 | 6.77 | (1nb, 2w) | |
| T Thushara | 8 |
0 | 59 | 0 | 7.37 | (1w) | |
| MF Maharoof | 10 |
0 | 40 | 2 | 4.00 | (3w) | |
| BAW Mendis | 10 |
0 | 44 | 2 | 4.40 | (2w) | |
| M Muralitharan | 10 |
1 | 32 | 0 | 3.20 | ||
| TM Dilshan | 3 |
0 | 19 | 1 | 6.33 |
| Sri Lanka innings (target: 257 runs from 50 overs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | |||
| TM Dilshan | c Sharma b Khan | 8 | 13 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 100.00 | ||
| ST Jayasuriya | c Ojha b Sharma | 17 | 35 | 24 | 1 | 0 | 70.83 | ||
| KC Sangakkara | c Tendulkar b Kumar | 4 | 28 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 50.00 | ||
| DPMD Jayawardene | c Pathan b Ojha | 52 | 117 | 75 | 1 | 1 | 69.33 | ||
| SHT Kandamby | not out | 93 | 195 | 129 | 9 | 0 | 72.09 | ||
| CK Kapugedera | c |
31 | 36 | 29 | 3 | 0 | 106.89 | ||
| MF Maharoof | b Sharma | 7 | 13 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 116.66 | ||
| T Thushara | c Pathan b Sharma | 7 | 15 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 87.50 | ||
| M Muralitharan | run out (Pathan/Khan) | 3 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 60.00 | ||
| KMDN Kulasekara | run out ( |
1 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 25.00 | ||
| BAW Mendis | run out (Pathan/ |
0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | ||
| Extras | (b 4, lb 4, w 10) | 18 | |||||||
| Total | (all out; 49.2 overs; 238 mins) | 241 | (4.88 runs per over) | ||||||
| Fall of wickets1-15 (Dilshan, 2.2 ov), 2-33 (Jayasuriya, 6.2 ov), 3-36 (Sangakkara, 7.3 ov), 4-136 (Jayawardene, 34.2 ov), 5-187 (Kapugedera, 42.2 ov), 6-206 (Maharoof, 44.1 ov), 7-228 (Thushara, 46.4 ov), 8-236 (Muralitharan, 47.6 ov), 9-237 (Kulasekara, 48.6 ov), 10-241 (Mendis, 49.2 ov) |
| Bowling | O |
M | R | W | Econ | ||
| Z Khan | 10 |
0 | 56 | 1 | 5.60 | (3w) | |
| P Kumar | 8.2 | 1 | 22 | 1 | 2.64 | (3w) | |
| I Sharma | 10 |
1 | 57 | 4 | 5.70 | (4w) | |
| PP Ojha | 7 |
0 | 39 | 1 | 5.57 | ||
| YK Pathan | 5 |
0 | 21 | 0 | 4.20 | ||
| V Sehwag | 5 |
0 | 19 | 0 | 3.80 | ||
| SK Raina | 4 |
0 | 19 | 0 | 4.75 |