India makes Srilankan tails down

On the pitch where you cant see any margin of era for the fast bowlers; the man Ishant Sharma helped India to seal victory over the lankans by bagging the top order batsmans.

It was all set at Galle, the flat pitch, which would allow the ball to spin a lot on day 4 and day 5 pointing srilankans victory.Anil Kumble was looking to level the series and gain the confidence back to his side. India won the toss and elected to bat which was a fabulous decision by him. Sehwag and Gambir had a great start and took india to a safer and secured place in the match. Suddenly everything slipped out from their hands when murali and mendis started to pluck indian wickets. Even though it was a great start by india, they were not able put up a great score on the board; and so were restricted to 329. SriLanka was not a bad side and they started to counter attack on indian bowlers. Until Harbhajan stops lankans to a total of 292 with a 6 wicket haul.

India were leading by 37 runs, but it was not as we thought, india were restricted to a total of 269. With a target of 307 and 2 days to go; it was a 50-50 chance for both the team. Until when our hero ' sharma' swung the new ball and made early break through. The top order were crashed by I.Sharma and Zaheer. 10-3 made indians to get back their confidence; it also mad harbhjan easy to crumble the other batsmans. Harbhajan with 4 wickets and I.Sharma with 3, brought 170 runs victory to the Indian side.

We can say; all happened because of the pace mixing with spin. As it was I.Sharma and Harbhajan who clinched victory to india; but do not forget Sehwag who was the successful batsman to crack down the lankan bowling attack. He was unbeaten on 201 in his first innings; and also made an aggressive 50 which opened the 'door of victory'. By scoring 201, he has taken his 5th 200+ in his test match career. The unbeaten 201 in the first innings was more than half of the team score(329). Thus he was rewarded for his excellent, mind blowing performance by naming him "man of the match".

Now its again going to be tough, the 3 match series have been leveled to 1-1; the third and final match to be played would be more crucial and also exciting.