Finally Indian cricket team became the "No.01 Test Team" in ICC Ranking with winning the 3rd Test against Sri Lanka today.
B atting first Sri Lankan batsman Tillakaratne Dilshan (109) and Angelo Mathews (99) took the score in almost high in board. They were all out in 393 runs. Indian spinner Harbhajan Singh took 4 wkts. In reply, India scored almost double than Sri Lanka. They scored 26/9 in their only innings. While Sri Lanka scored 309 in their second innings and lost test by an innings and 24 runs.
With winning this test match India won the series in 2-0 also. And they took the top position of Test Ranking from South Africa. Now India is leading the Test Ranking Table with 124 points and South Africa carries 122 points in second position. All India is celebrating for this victory. But Indian captain MS Dhoni thinks, "I think the real tough task from now on is to maintain this performance. The real tough job starts from here."
Scorecard: Sri Lanka: 1st inn. 393/10 (Tillakaratne Dilshan 109, Angelo Mathews 99, Tharanga Paranavitan 53, Harbhajan Singh 4/112) & 2ns inn. 309/10 (K Sangakkara (c) 137, Tharanga Paranavitan 54, Zaheer Khan 5/72)
India: 1st inn. 726/9 (Virender Sehwag 293, MS Dhoni (c)(wk) 100*, Sachin Tendulkar 53, Muttiah Muralitharan 4/195).
Sunday
India became the "No.01 Test Team"
Labels: IN, Ind vs SL'09, SL
Posted by F Rocky's Blog at 9:34 PM
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