Thisara Perera and Angelo Mathews each grabbed three wickets to set up Sri Lanka's comfortable nine-wicket win over India in the second one-day international on Tuesday. Perera finished with 3-19 and Mathews with 3-14 as India were dismissed for 138 off 33.3 overs after
India 138 (33.3 ov), Sri Lanka 139/1 (19.5 ov)
Result Sri Lanka won by 9 wickets (with 181 balls remaining)
Man of the match Thisara Perera
| India (50 overs maximum) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR |
| G Gambhir | c †Sangakkara b Malinga | 65 | 158 | 96 | 4 | 0 | 67.70 |
| V Sehwag | c & b Perera | 15 | 21 | 15 | 2 | 0 | 100.00 |
| V Kohli | c †Sangakkara b Perera | 1 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 20.00 |
| RG Sharma | b Mathews | 0 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| SK Raina | b Perera | 1 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 20.00 |
| MS Dhoni*† | c †Sangakkara b Mathews | 11 | 26 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 68.75 |
| IK Pathan | c Perera b Malinga | 6 | 28 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 31.57 |
| R Ashwin | run out (Udana/†Sangakkara) | 21 | 19 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 140.00 |
| Z Khan | lbw b Herath | 2 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 50.00 |
| PP Ojha | c †Sangakkara b Mathews | 5 | 27 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 27.77 |
| UT Yadav | not out | 0 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Extras | (b 2, lb 4, w 5) | 11 | | | | | |
| Total | (all out; 33.3 overs; 158 mins) | 138 | (4.11 runs per over) |
| Fall of wickets 1-31 (Sehwag, 3.6 ov), 2-33 (Kohli, 5.3 ov), 3-38 (Sharma, 6.4 ov), 4-41 (Raina, 7.4 ov), 5-60 (Dhoni, 14.1 ov), 6-79 (Pathan, 19.5 ov), 7-107 (Ashwin, 23.6 ov), 8-113 (Khan, 25.4 ov), 9-132 (Ojha, 32.3 ov), 10-138 (Gambhir, 33.3 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |
| SL Malinga | 7.3 | 0 | 36 | 2 | 4.80 | |
| I Udana | 6 | 0 | 42 | 0 | 7.00 | (5w) |
| NLTC Perera | 8 | 3 | 19 | 3 | 2.37 | |
| AD Mathews | 7 | 2 | 14 | 3 | 2.00 | |
| HMRKB Herath | 5 | 0 | 21 | 1 | 4.20 | |
| Sri Lanka (target: 139 runs from 50 overs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR |
| WU Tharanga | not out | 59 | 85 | 60 | 8 | 0 | 98.33 |
| TM Dilshan | c †Dhoni b Ashwin | 50 | 72 | 49 | 5 | 0 | 102.04 |
| LD Chandimal | not out | 6 | 12 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 60.00 |
| Extras | (lb 10, w 14) | 24 | | | | | |
| Total | (1 wicket; 19.5 overs) | 139 | (7.00 runs per over) |
| Did not bat KC Sangakkara†, DPMD Jayawardene*, AD Mathews, HDRL Thirimanne, NLTC Perera, HMRKB Herath, I Udana, SL Malinga |
| Fall of wickets 1-119 (Dilshan, 16.4 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |
| Z Khan | 6 | 0 | 39 | 0 | 6.50 | (6w) |
| IK Pathan | 4 | 0 | 27 | 0 | 6.75 | (4w) |
| UT Yadav | 4 | 0 | 38 | 0 | 9.50 | |
| R Ashwin | 5 | 1 | 18 | 1 | 3.60 | (1w) |
| PP Ojha | 0.5 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 8.40 |
The third one-day international will be played in Colombo on Saturday. The Indian team will try desperately to win the third game and gain an upper hand in the series.
