India vs Srilanka 1st ODI: People enjoyed the match like never before

Update: India lose two quick wickets. Raina and Harbhajan Singh are out.

Update: Virat Kohli is playing very sensibly. He has scored 27 runs off 19 ball. Jadeja is playing at 8 after facing 8 balls. India are 386 after 47 overs

Update: Jadeja plays some big shots and helps India cross 400 mark. He scored 30 runs off 17 balls.

Update: India score 414 runs

Update: Sri Lanka begin their inning in the same fashion as done by India. Without loss they have scored 61 runs in 7.5 overs. Dilshan is playing at 45 while Tharanga is playing at 22

Update: After 11 overs Sri Lank are playing at 91 without any loss of wicket. Dilshan is at 63 and Tharanga is at 26

Update: After 12 overs Sri Lanka reach 100 runs

Update: At the end of 15 overs Sri Lanka were 130 runs without loss of wicket. Dilshan is at 87 while Tharanga is at 35

Update: Tilakratne Dilshan completes his 100. Sri Lanka are 158 without loss of wicket after 20 overs

Update: Tharanga completes his fifty. he is playing at 58. He has hit three massive sixes. Lanka are at 175 without losing a wicket after 22 overs

Update: Sri Lankan batsmen are doing a superb job. Sangakkara is on fire. He has scored 90 runs only on 40 balls. Dilshan is playing at 146. Sri Lanka are 316 after 36 overs

Update: Sangakkara goes after scoring 90 runs. Jayasurya comes to bat.

Update: Dilshan completes 150 runs. His 153 comes in 118 balls.

Update: Sri Lanka lose three quick wickets brightening Indian chances. Jayasurya goes for five on Harbhajan all. Jayawardane goes for three. He was run out by Dhoni. Thier biggest loss was Dilshan who went on a Harbhajan ball. He scored 160 crucial runs. Sri Lanka are playing at 347 for five after 41 overs.

Update: Match has become dangerously close. Sri Lanka are 388 for 5 at the end of 46 over. Mathew is playing at 22 while Kandamby is playing at 21

Update: Lanka lose sixth wicket. Kandamby is run out by Zaheer Khan

Update: Sri Lanka lose their 7th wicket. Samarweera is run out. In three balls they need 6 runs

Update: Mathew goes. Sri Lanka lose 8th wicket

Update: India win the match and Lanka win the hearts for playing a wonderful inning. Lanka scored 411 runs for 8 wickets in 50 overs

At the end of thirty eight over India have already scored 325 runs, a huge score in itself and there are still 12 overs left for them to make as many runs as possible.

So will they break the world record for highest one day international score?

I am sure the record is going to be broken as Suresh Raina is still at the crease. He is a big hitter and can do as much harm to Sri Lankan credibility than anyone else in top Indian batting line up.

But the full credit for this mammoth score must go to Virendar Sehwag who played a brilliant inning. He seems to have got back among big runs-something that comes so easily to him-at an absolutely right time.

His four and sixes delighted people here in Rajkot. He is a big hitter and when he is batting he seems to be in full control of the surrounding.

No other batsman can match his powerful hitting. Even big shots look so ordinary from his bat.

Sri Lankan captain Sangakkara must be cursing the time when he asked India to bat. He had won the toss and there were chances that his batsmen would have also made runs in the same style as India made, had he decided to bat first.

His captaincy has come under severe criticism in his home country, especially during the whole Indian tour where they lost the test series 2-0.

Other Indian batsmen including Sachin Tendulkar and captain Dhoni too contributed half centuries in the Indian inning.{mospagebreak}

Sachin scored 69 runs off only 63 balls while captain Dhoni scored 72 runs off only 53 balls.

Gambhir scored only 11 runs.

India scire

V Sehwag c Dilshan b Welegedara 146

SR Tendulkar b Fernando 69

MS Dhoni*† c Mathews b Fernando 72

SK Raina c Jayasuriya b Kulasekara 16

G Gambhir c †Sangakkara b Kulasekara 11

Harbhajan Singh c Kulasekara b Mathews 11

V Kohli not out 4

RA Jadeja not out 1

Total (6 wickets; 44 overs) 355 (8.06 runs per over)

Teams:

India: Virender Sehwag, Sachin Tendulkar, Gautam Gambhir, Virat Kohli, Mahendra Singh Dhoni (captain-wicketkeeper), Suresh Raina, Ravindra Jadeja, Harbhajan Singh, Praveen Kumar, Zaheer Khan and Ashish Nehra.

Sri Lanka: Upul Tharanga, Tilllakaratne Dilshan, Kumar Sangakkara (captain-wicketkeeper), Mahela Jayawardene, Thilan Samaraweera, Thilina Kandamby, Sanath Jayasuriya, Angelo Mathews, Nuwan Kulasekara, Dilhara Fernando, Chanaka Welegedara.

Umpires: Marius Erasmus (South Africa) and Shavir Tarapore

TV umpire: Sanjay Hazare

Match referee: Jeff Crowe (New Zealand)