The Final India vs Sri Lanka (Mumbai) 2nd April

ICC World Cup 2011 – 2^nd April

49^th Match – The Final     (day/night    50-over match)

Played at Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai,

India won by 6 wickets (with 10 balls remaining) and notched up 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup;

Sri Lanka won the toss and opted to bat first;

Scoreboard:

Sri Lanka            274/6    (50 over)

Sri Lanka Innings	50 over maximum	R	B	4s	6s	S/R
WU Tharanga	c Sehwag b Khan	2	20	0	0	10.00
TM Dilshan	b Harbhajan Singh	33	49	3	0	67.34
KC Sangakkara*†	c †Dhoni b Yuvraj Singh	48	67	5	0	71.64
DPMD Jayawardene	not out	103	88	13	0	117.04
TT Samaraweera	lbw b Yuvraj Singh	21	34	2	0	61.76
CK Kapugedera	c Raina b Khan	1	5	0	0	20.00
KMDN Kulasekara	run out (†Dhoni)	32	30	1	1	106.66
NLTC Perera	not out	22	9	3	1	244.44
Extras	(b 1, lb 3, w 6, nb 2)	12

Total (6 wickets; 50 over) 274 (5.48 runs per over)

Did not bat:

SL Malinga, S Randiv, M Muralitharan 

Fall of wickets:

1-17 (Tharanga, 6.1 over), 2-60 (Dilshan, 16.3 over), 3-122 (Sangakkara, 27.5 over), 4-179 (Samaraweera, 38.1 over), 5-182 (Kapugedera, 39.5 over), 6-248 (Kulasekara, 47.6 over)

Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ.
Z Khan	10	3	60	2	6.00	(1w)
S Sreesanth	8	0	52	0	6.50	(2nb)
MM Patel	9	0	41	0	4.55	(1w)
Harbhajan Singh	10	0	50	1	5.00	(1w)
Yuvraj Singh	10	0	49	2	4.90
SR Tendulkar	2	0	12	0	6.00	(3w)
V Kohli	1	0	6	0	6.00

India                277/4    (48.2 over)    (won by 6 wickets)

India Innings	(target: 275 runs from 50 overs)	R	B	4s	6s	S/R
V Sehwag	lbw b Malinga	0	2	0	0	0.00
SR Tendulkar	c †Sangakkara b Malinga	18	14	2	0	128.57
G Gambhir	b Perera	97	122	9	0	79.50
V Kohli	c & b Dilshan	35	49	4	0	71.42
MS Dhoni*†	not out	91	79	8	2	115.18
Yuvraj Singh	not out	21	24	2	0	87.50
Extras	(b 1, lb 6, w 8)	15

Total (4 wickets; 48.2 over) 277 (5.73 runs per over)

Did not bat:

SK Raina, Harbhajan Singh, Z Khan, MM Patel, S Sreesanth 

Fall of wickets:

1-0 (Sehwag, 0.2 over), 2-31 (Tendulkar, 6.1 over), 3-114 (Kohli, 21.4 over), 4-223 (Gambhir, 41.2 over)

Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ.
SL Malinga	9	0	42	2	4.66	(2w)
KMDN Kulasekara	8.2	0	64	0	7.68
NLTC Perera	9	0	55	1	6.11	(2w)
S Randiv	9	0	43	0	4.77
TM Dilshan	5	0	27	1	5.40	(1w)
M Muralitharan	8	0	39	0	4.87	(1w)

Player of the match:    MS Dhoni (India)

Player of the series:    Yuvraj Singh (India)

Umpires:        Aleem Dar (Pakistan) and SJA Taufel (Australia)

TV umpire:        IJ Gould (England)

The history of Twenty eight years ago repeated when India captured the crown first time that Kapil Dev and his boys lifted at Lord's in 1983 and today, Mahendra Singh Dhoni and his team occupied the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 in Mumbai. Indian side was now made themselves in the list that nation got the World Cup more than once. Australia, West Indies and India are included in that line. A finest innings of 97 from Gautam Gambhir and unbeaten 91-runs from the Indian skipper MS Dhoni thrashed Sri Lanka in the nerve thrilling finale before Mahela Jayawardene accomplished his unbeaten hundred.

Against dominant conditions at the Wankhede Stadium, victory was achieved by six wickets with 10 balls to spare. However India's luck got worse before they triumphed, Virender Sehwag got LBW on the furious delivery of Lasith Malinga with second-ball duck; it was skidded into his back-pad and the Sachin Tendulkar was preyed by him when he was playing on 18 facing 14 deliveries.

At 31 for 2 in the seventh over, Indian side was struggling to keep their grip in the game. But Gambhir and Virat Kohli typified a generation that does not easily accept defeat, and their third-wicket stand of 83 laid the foundations for an epic turnaround. After the dismissal of Virat Kohli who was caught by Dilshan in an involuntarily catch, Gambhir struck nine fours in a 122-ball innings, and both he and Dhoni required treatment for stiff backs. Dhoni at one stage looked so immobile that a preventive retirement seemed the only rational response, but after some callous work from the medical guy he resumed his stance and responded with another trademark filleting of the extra cover boundary, an area in which he scored six of his eight fours.