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India vs Sri Lanka Live Cricket Score ICC World T20 2014 Final: Sangakkara guides Sri Lanka to easy win

India take on Sri Lanka in the summit clash of ICC World T20 2014.

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Published: Apr 06, 2014, 04:56 PM (IST)
Edited: Aug 31, 2016, 10:33 AM (IST)

 

Sanga and Mahela bow out on a high © Getty Images
Sanga and Mahela bow out on a high © Getty Images

 

 

Apr 6, 2014

 

Catch Live Scorecard of India (IND) vs Sri Lanka (SL) ICC World T20 2014 Final here

 

 

 

(India take on Sri Lanka in the final of the ICC World T20 2014 at Dhaka on Sunday. Catch Live Scores and Live Updates of the match here)

That is all from CricketCountry here. This is Abhishek Mukherjee, signing off. 

Malinga looks happy, and rightly so. He “can’t explain in words” when asked about the Big Two. He also appreciates the fact that the bowlers have stuck to his blueprint.

This time Mahela and Sanga are cheered this time.

MSD comes up to the podium, back to his composed, smiling self. “Virat was the only one who got going,” he says: “we should have got another 10-15 runs, but cricket is all about those extra 15 runs.” He is also very vocal ahead of Kohli.

ViKo congratulates Mahela and Sanga. He also lauds his own side for remaining unbeaten throughout the tournament before the finals. “I’ve been playing for the last few months, so why not contribute in the tournament?” he says. He, too, spoke about the last four overs where the Lankans had bowled exceptionally well and he had to watch helplessly from the other end.

The Man of the Series is Virat Kohli (adjudicated by Boon, Erasmus, Wasim, and Bishop). He has scored 319 runs in the tournament. Nas says he was ahead by “the country mile”.

Sanga says that the win means a lot to him. He lauds the bowlers and fielders, especially the death bowlers. When asked whether Thisara had pressured him, Sanga smiled: “He always puts the pressure on me.” He says he doesn’t have words to explain his elation. “Everyone’s gotta go, and my time in T20s is up.”

Sanga is the Man of the Match. Warne is there to hand the trophy over to him. The ground is unusually non-responsive.

The officials come up. Boon, Gould, Kettleborough, Tucker, Oxenford.

Here is Hussain with the microphone.

Sangakkara was lucky, but he did not throw it away with false strokes. He had been there till the end, while Thisara played a couple of big hits. The heroes, however, were the five bowlers, none of whom went for more than 30 runs an over. In an ideal world the Man of the Match award would probably have been shared by the quintet.

 

 

 

 

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Mahela thanks the fans back home. Someone from the team lets out a oooooooooooo, and he looks eager to join the youngsters. What a day it has been for the country!

Thisara lets out a primal shriek. The Sri Lankans celebrate, terrific scenes here. MSD hugs Sanga, the Lankan team chairs him off the ground. Boy, does he look happy! Sanath is out there, hugs Mahela…

Bhuvneswar 3-0-18-0 Mohit 2-0-18-1 Ashwin 3.5-0-27-1 Mishra 4-0-32-1 Raina 4-0-24-1 Jadeja 1-0-11-0

Kusal 5(7) Dilshan 18(16) Mahela 24(24) Sanga 52*(35) Lahiru 7(11) Thisara 21*(14)

 
 
 

FOUR! Thisara! Huge straight hoick! It’s all over!

FOUR! Under-age now! Fifty for Sanga!

FOUR! Edged *over* MSD!

 
 
 

SIX! Thisara gives it the full throttle, and the ball soared over wide mid-on. This man *can* hit.

FOUR! That had Sangkkara’s name written all over it! Creamed over extra-cover for four off Mishra!

 
27 from 24 now. It’s Sanga’s chance to sign off on a high.
 

FOUR! Sanga plays it past fine-leg off the very last moment. That’s class for you.

 
All the good work has been undone there. 14 runs off the over. Sri Lanka should win from here.
 

FOUR! This time it’s Sanga, deftly guided past fine-leg.

SIX! That’s why he has been promoted for! Huge one over long on!

 
The Sri Lankans are concentrating on closing the gap down. Remember, both batsmen have the ability to explode.
 

The Lankans are concentrating on singles, keeping things for the end. Would Mathews have been the better option?

MSD is giving Sanga a dose of his own medicine here… appealing early…

 
An excellent over from Mishra to the southpaws. India needs a few of these overs from here.
 

Thisara ahead of Mathews, Malinga means business here…

 
Lahiru tries to cut, but the ball kept low; Dhoni caught the edge and went up immediately. Gould nods, Lahiru has to walk back…
 
OUT! Lahiru c Dhoni b Mishra 7(11)!
 
And Raina has backed up Ashwin. Two from that over. MSD has held Mishra away from the left-handers, but Raina has rose to the task.
 
 
Now we’re talking. Ashwin conceded four off this over. Sri Lanka are still on top, but certainly not *clear* favourites.
 
 
A breakthrough and an edge, but India certainly need more here.
 

FOUR! Ooooooooh! Flies past first slip! 

That was Mahela’s last T20I innings…

 
Why did he need to do that? A nothing chip off Raina, and ASHWIN takes a catch diving forward!
 
OUT! Mahela c Ashwin b Raina 24(24)!

FOUR! Mahela at his best, the most delicate of late-cuts off Raina, another four.

 
Things are too easy for the Lankans. Runs are coming too easily, and these men are too experienced to throw it all away.
 

SIX! You cannot give Sanga room, he’ll demolish you! Slog-swept over mid-wicket for maximum!

FOUR! Past square-leg!

Dhoni’s ploy to bring Raina on has somewhat worked.

Meanwhile, Yuvraj has made Vijay Mallya trend today. Go figure.

Drama! Raina took the pace off the ball (yes, even that is possible), Sanga took a wild swipe, and the ball fell just short of a running Mohit.

 
An excellent first over from Mishra. These two have truckloads of experience, though, and are not likely to throw it away.
 

Mishra on. MSD has given him a slip.

 
That wicket has brought some life back in the Indian camp. They need more of this. Right now, however, Sri Lanka is still the dominant side.
 
 
Where did that come from? Completely unnecessary slog-sweep from TMD there! Easy catch for Kohli.
 
OUT! Dilshan c Kohli b Ashwin 18(16)!

FOUR! Slightly short, and TMD places it to the square-leg fence.

Here’s Ash…

 
Too easy for Mahela. Sri Lanka coasting along to an easy victory here.
 

FOUR! Mahela tries a strange-looking turn towards leg; the ball takes the top-edge and — you have to believe me — Bhuvi’s pace carried it to the fence over MSD’s head.

FOUR! That’s almost a freebie! Third man was inside, and Mahela deftly steered it for a four past him.

Hello, hello, what have we here? Still no spin, Bhuvi bowls on, with third man inside the circle…

 
Too many runs given away by the Indians. MSD needs to summon his spinners.
 

FOUR! TMD tries to leg-glance, gets an inside edge, and the ball finds its way.

FOUR! TMD pulls, mistimes, but still manages to get a boundary. India bleeding runs here.

FOUR! Mahela uses all his wiles, and guides the ball over MSD. What a shot!

 
It was not a bad over, but Dilshan had got the runs he needed. Even if Sri Lanka have a quiet powerplay they will have ample time in hand to pull it off. Unless India get wickets, that is…
 

 

 

   

 

 

 

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FOUR! Deviation in line, and TMD leg-glances. 

 
Mohit pulls off a tight over, but tight overs will not be good enough. Sri Lanka have enough firepower to see their side to the end if wickets do not fall.
 

Here’s Mahela for one final time in this version. No guard of honour, though.

 
Yet another World T20 final, and yet another Sharma does it for MSD! Tried an encore of the four, but could only balloon it to mid-off: an easy catch.
 
OUT! Kusal c Jadeja b Mohit 5(7)!
 
Sri Lanka are off. India needs quick wickets…
 

Four! And Kusal is off. Eerily reminiscent of Sanath: slight room outside off, and he pulls Bhuvi. Too good a talent.

 
They’re back. 131 in 20. Here we go.
 

Kulasekera 4-0-29-1 Mathews 4-0-25-1 Senanayake 4-0-22-0 Malinga 4-0-27-0 Herath 4-0-23-1

Rohit 29(26) Rahane 3(8) Kohli 77(58) Yuvraj 11(21) Dhoni 4*(7)

The Sri Lankan spinners have taken the pace off, never allowing the batsmen to get away. The seamers have stuck to full-tosses wide outside off with a sweeper on the boundary, often risking a wide but never allowing the Indians to reach them. The fielding has been excellent (barring Malinga’s drop of Kohli). Overall, it has been one of the most clinical displays.

An excellent display by the Sri Lankans. They had allowed Kohli only eight balls in the last four overs, which may have cost India about 20-odd runs. Yuvraj looked all at sea, and surprisingly, Dhoni, possibly the most feared finisher in world cricket, could not connect well. 

 
Kohli ran desperately for a second in the last ball, but the throw from long-on was fast and accurate.
 
OUT! Kohli run out 77(58)!

You don’t get to see MSD miss three balls in a row too often…

Yet another excellent over by the Lankans. A mere 12 from the last three overs.

Kohli took an off-stump guard to counter the line, but they have a sweeper…

This is excellent bowling from Nuwan, wide full-tosses outside off.

ICC tournament final, Kula to MSD. Sounds familiar?

India three wickets down. MSD walks out. Sounds familiar?

 
The low full-toss is played straight to long-off, and Yuvraj’s struggle comes to an end. The batsmen have crossed…
 
OUT! Yuvraj c Thisara b Kulasekera 11(21)!
 
Eight runs from the last two overs. Kohli has scored four of these, from four balls.
 

Some superb fielding from the Lankans there.

For once, even MSD looks impatient.

MSD is stretching outside the ropes. Warming up. Will he be next?

 
Sachithra makes up for Kula’s over. The onus is on Kohli to up the tempo here…
 

Clearly not Yuvraj’s day. He is struggling. 

Yuvraj to face his bogeyman Senanayake…

 
That was probably the over I was talking about. 16 runs from that over.
 

Four! Drama! Kula pitches short, Kohli pulls, it takes a top-edge, and the ball flies over Sachithra’s head for four. Why was he not on the rope?

That last shot might actually have gone like a real tracer bullet.

Four! The next ball is dismissed through cover. This may just be the big over.

Six! Kohli goes big! Nuwan is dispatched over mid-wicket so easily!

 
Yuvraj is clearly struggling out there. Sachithra has sneaked in a two-run over, bowling four dot balls to Yuvraj.
 

… and Sanga appeals before the ball reached Kohli…

 
Fifty for Kohli now. That one big over has still not come, and it’s still advantage Sri Lanka. The run rate is still under seven…
 

Four! Malinga splays it outside off-stump, Kohli stretches out for it and guides it past third man. That is how the man bats – makes the most difficult shots look ridiculously easy.

Fifty! Four from five innings! It has not been his most fluent innings, but Kohli has still made it count when it matters.

Here’s Lasith. This may get interesting.

 
Okay, guys, this seems to be it. Virat Kohli has decided enough is enough. Some serious action on our hands.
 

Six! What a shot! Flat, absolutely flat over long-on!

 
Is this when Kohli tries to break free? Here’s Herath to bowl out…
 

Four! Sachithra attempts a doosra, but Kohli is up to it: steps out and nonchalantly dispatches it over deep extra-cover for four!

 
Just a single came off that over from Herath. Sri Lanka tightens the stranglehold.
 
 
Nice attempt to go over extra-cover, but couldn’t get it high enough. Yuvraj walks out.
 
OUT! Rohit c Senanayake b Herath 29(26)!
 
 
 

Six! Huge! Kohli doesn’t like Mathews’ yell, and responds with a six over mid-wicket!

Matthews lets out a furious appeal. The ball may have gone to first slip if Rohit had missed it.

Four! Rohit drives Mathews to the extra-cover fence to bring up the fifty-partnership!

 
India reaches fifty, but Herath has bowled an excellent over to restrict the Indians to three overs.
 
 
Kohli and Rohit are now pacing it well. It may not take time for them to shift gears.
 

Malinga senses danger, brings Mathews back…

 
That dropped catch by Malinga may go on to hurt Sri Lanka. Kohli has just started to open up.
 

Six! Kohli steps out and lofts Herath over long-off! What did you do, Malinga?

Dropped! Malinga at mid-wicket (why?)! A Kohli catch! Did Kohli go up and do a Steve Waugh? We will never know…

 
It was an excellent over, marred by that last ball boundary.
 

Four! What a shot! Just stand and deliver, as they say! Malinga was bowling beautifully, but Rohit dismissed him rather arrogantly through mid-on! That took the sheen off that excellent over.

 

Malinga is bowling cleverly here. He isn’t going for those lethal yorkers with the slippery ball; instead, he is concentrating on deft variations in pace. Excellent thinking.

And Malinga brings himself on.

 
A nice over from Sachithra, barring that single long-hop.
 

Rohit survives a run out scare!

FOUR! Rohit plays his trademark hoick, and the ball falls just short of the square-leg boundary!

Here’s Sachithra Senanayake. Wonderful alliterative name.

 
Both sides seem to be measuring each other up. The lull before the storm?
 

Looks like Rohit is to play the foil for Kohli. An interesting strategy, given that Rohit is a natural strokeplayer. 

Sanga calls for the helmets. He doesn’t like Kohli stepping out.

FOUR! Oooh! Kohli simply steps ahead and flicks Nuwan through mid-wicket! He is in ominous form, the Delhi lad…

 
Early breakthrough for the Lankans, but Kohli has just walked in…
 
 
The ball came a bit slow, Rahane tried to slog-sweep, and Matthews hit timber!
 
OUT! Rahane b Matthews 3(8)!

Some nice movement in the air from Nuwan there. Malinga summons Angelo. 

 
A tight over from Nuwan. India need to get their eyes in.
 

Rahane flicks, the ball takes the edge and runs past extra-cover, TWO men misfield as the batsmen run for a couple.

Okay, time to keep your Candy Crush and 2048 away. The match is about the begin. Now.

Cheers for the Men in Blue! All 22 of them!

 

 

 

 

The Indian anthem is followed by the Sri Lankan counterpart here.

Okay, folks, goosebumps time: the anthems! 

Stay tuned. Let me get my first cup of coffee for the evening. Something tells me I will need quite a few tonight.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Quick stat update: Whenever India has qualified for the knockout stage of any ICC tournament since the 2003 World Cup they have gone on to win the tournament.

 

 

 

So MS has opted to retain Mohit ahead of Shami. He has also kept faith in Rahane. Chandimal, on the other hand, sits out; Prasanna has been dropped to bring in Thisara.

 

India: MS Dhoni (c & wk), Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Yuvraj Singh, Suresh Raina, Ravindra Jadeja, Amit Mishra, Ravichandran Ashwin, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohit Sharma, Ajinkya Rahane.

Sri Lanka: Lasith Malinga (c), Kumar Sangakkara (wk), Tillakaratne Dilshan, Kusal Perera, Mahela Jayawardene, Angelo Mathews, Lahiru Thirimanne, Thisara Perera, Nuwan Kulasekara, Rangana Herath, Sachitra Senanayake.

 

 

6.40 Malinga has won the toss and has elected to bowl (do note that there has been a single toss here, unlike the 2011 World Cup final). So there you go.

6.36 The Indians are playing football out there. Just before a final. On a damp outfield. Just saying.

 

 

 

 

These men operating the super-soppers will play a role no less crucial than anyone in today’s match. Kohli included.

6.11 The toss has been postponed till 6.40 PM IST. The match will start thirty minutes before the toss. You can do a few chores meanwhile, or if you feel like, read Nishad Pai Vaidya’s piece on the atmosphere at the ground.

 

 

 

6.03 The covers are coming off. I guess you’ve had your afternoon tea or coffee or beverage of choice. Do stay glued.

5.59 Our correspondent at Dhaka says it has stopped raining. You can stop Ctrl+Tabbing and focus here now. The action, as they say, is about to begin.

Rain, rain, go away
Come again another day
Mahela-Sanga want to play.

 

The television channels have the luxury of showing highlights. Trying to replicate the same on a live blog may not be the best of ideas. Just a thought.

 

 

 

 

 

 

5.26 pm IST: Update from our correspondent: The rain has stopped and the covers are coming off.

 

 

While we wait for the much-expected clash to begin, why don’t you read Bharath Seervi’s statistical recap on the previous ICC World T20 finals?

5.05 pm IST: It’s raining in Dhaka and the covers are on, informs our man Nishad Pai Vaidya.

 

 

Hello and welcome to CricketCountry’s live blog of the ICC World T20 2014 final between India and Sri Lanka, at the Shere-e Bangla National Stadium in Dhaka on Sunday. While Sri Lanka defeated West Indies via the Duckworth-Lewis method in the semi-final on Thursday, India, riding on Virat Kohli’s splendid 72 not out thrashed South Africa by six wickets on the next day. This is Abhishek Mukherjee and I will be bringing you the over-by-over updates of the big blash.

 

It is a huge game from the Sri Lankan perspective as two of their stalwarts — Mahela Jayawardene and Kumar Sangakkara — would be retiring from the format after the  T20 World Cup, whereas Mahendra Singh Dhoni-led India would be aiming to make it three in three after winning the ICC 2011 World Cup and ICC Champions Trophy.

 

However, Sri Lanka, who are playing in their third final in the World T20 event would be under pressure of not having won a single time. In 2009, they lost to the Asian rivals Pakistan, whereas the previous edition held in

 

Squads:

 

India: MS Dhoni (c & wk), Shikhar Dhawan, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Yuvraj Singh, Suresh Raina, Ravindra Jadeja, Amit Mishra, Ravichandran Ashwin, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohammed Shami, Mohit Sharma, Varun Aaron, Stuart Binny, Ajinkya Rahane.

 

Sri Lanka: Dinesh Chandimal (c), Tillakaratne Dilshan, Kusal Perera, Kumar Sangakkara (wk), Mahela Jayawardene, Angelo Mathews, Thisara Perera, Nuwan Kulasekara, Lasith Malinga, Rangana Herath, Sachitra Senanayake, Ajantha Mendis, Seekkuge Prasanna, Lahiru Thirimanne, Suranga Lakmal.

 

ICC World T20 2014 schedule: Match time table with venue details

 

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