Rampant Sri Lanka humiliate India

Kingston, July 3: Upul Tharanga plundered the highest individual score in a one-day international (ODI) in the Caribbean as Sri Lanka steamrollered India by 161 runs in the third match of the TriSeries at Sabina Park on Tuesday.

Replying to Sri Lanka’s mammoth 348 for one in their 50 overs, in which Tharanga made an unbeaten 174 and Mahela Jayawardene 107, World Cup and Champions Trophy holders India were dismissed for just 187 in the 45th over.

India looked a pale shadow of the side that had gone unbeaten in lifting the Champions Trophy in England just over a week earlier. The dismissal of Kohli, standing in for the injured Mahendra Singh Dhoni, hooking his Sri Lankan counterpart Angelo Mathews to longleg, virtually ended the match as a contest as India fell to 57 for three in the 16th over.

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Jayawardene played a typically classy innings in compiling his first ODI hundred for two years and his 16th in all in a 213-run opening stand in which he outscored Tharanga.

But ultimately it was Tharanga’s day as he timed the ball sweetly and caned the lacklustre Indian bowling to all parts of the ground with dismis- sive authority. He brought up his 13th ODI hundred off 124 deliveries with 11 fours and finished with 19 fours and three sixes in his 174 off just 159 balls.

— Agencies SCORES Sri Lanka 348/1 in 50 overs (U. Tharanga 174 n.o., M. Jayawardene 107, A. Mathews 44 n.o., R. Ashwin 1/67) bt India 187 in 44.5 overs (R. Jadeja 49 n.o., S. Raina 33, M. Vijay 30, S. Dhawan 24, D. Karthik 22, R. Sharma 5, R. Ashwin 4, V. Kohli 2, S. Ahmed 0, U. Yadav 0, R. Herath 3/37, L . Malinga 2/40, S. Senanayake 2/46, A. Mathews 1/23, N. Kulasekara 1/37).