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India faces Sri Lanka in the final of the Micromax Cup tri-series on August 28, 2010 at Dambulla. You can follow the highlights of the India-Sri Lanka final at Dambulla here.

Live Scorecard, Commentary, Highlights of India v Sri Lanka, Dambulla.

The routes to the final of both, India and Sri Lanka have been varied, despite the inconsistencies exhibited by both. India were routed for 88 in their game against New Zealand, edged past Sri Lanka in the second, then lost to the hosts after being bowled out on 103, before winning a must-win, virtual semi-final against New Zealand.

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Virender Sehwag smashed his 13th century in ODIs when he scored a ton against New Zealand in the sixth game of the Micromax Cup tri-series at Dambulla. Sehwag’s century rescued India from a precarious position at 66/4 to lift them to a good position.

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India plays New Zealand in the last league game of the Micromax Cup tri-series which is being played in Dambulla in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka, which is the third team in the tournament, has already qualified for the final after their resounding win over India in the previous game.

That means that this game between India and New Zealand is a virtual semi-final – the winner will play Sri Lanka in the final. Of course, an abandoned game like New Zealand’s previous encounter against the Lankans will see them through to the final at the expense of India.

Live Scorecard and Commentary, India v New Zealand, Dambulla

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The Gods are certainly not in favour of a healthy India-Sri Lanka cricketing relation, and for the second time in successive weeks, there is enough potential for the media to take the acrimony to newer depths.

In the fifth game of the Micromax Cup tri-series, Sri Lanka beat India by a whopping eight-wicket margin and with almost 37 overs to spare, but not before there were some horrendous and controversial decisions given by Kumar Dharmasena and Asad Rauf against the Indian batsmen.

In the previous game between India and Sri Lanka, Virender Sehwag had been denied a century by Suraj Randiv’s deliberate no-ball, that had snowballed into something very controversial.

Live Scorecard and Commentary of India v Sri Lanka, Dambulla

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The fourth match of the Micromax Cup tri-series will have Sri Lanka play New Zealand at Dambulla on August 19. Like the other games, this will also be a day-night match.

Live Scorecard and Commentary, Sri Lanka v New Zealand, Dambulla

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India beat Sri Lanka by seven wickets in the third ODI of the Micromax tri-series at Dambulla. Virender Sehwag’s well-played and a matured innings of a an unbeaten 99 saw the Indians through to the win with more than 15 overs to spare and that meant that India got a bonus point as well.

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India will face Sri Lanka in the third match of the Micromax Cup tri-series that starts on the Monday, August 16. India had not only lost the first game of the series (highlights of India-NZ game here) but were so badly outplayed that it hardly looked like a second ranked team playing in the game.

On the other hand, Sri Lanka had a neat, little workout against the Kiwis, and though, the finishing was not as brilliant as they would have liked, what would have warmed their hearts was the fact that they won the game after chasing under the lights.

Live Scorecard and Commentary, India v Sri Lanka, Dambulla

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MS Dhoni has signed up a two-year deal with a sports marketing firm worth Rs 2 billion, which, by current exchange rates stands at $ 42 million. This $4 million more than the deal that Sachin Tendulkar had got in 2006.

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The Indian selectors have named a 15-member squad for the Asia Cup that the Indians will play from the 15th of June. India take on Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh in the tournament.

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BCCI secretary, Rajiv Shukla, has rubbished all the claims of the captain MS Dhoni being on the lines to be replaced in the shorter format of the game by Virender Sehwag. Earlier, a newspaper daily had reported that there were murmurs that MS Dhoni could lose his ODI and T20I captaincy in favour of Virender Sehwag.

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