| Venue | R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo on 29th August 2008 (50-over match) (day/night) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Sri Lanka won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Sri Lanka won by 112 runs (Duckworth/Lewis method) |
| Umpires | BR Doctrove (West Indies), TH Wijewardene |
| Third umpire | MG Silva |
| Referee | BC Broad (England) |
| Fourth Official | WA Senanayake |
| Man of the Match | KMDN Kulasekara |
| Sri Lanka innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | |
| ST Jayasuriya | c Ojha b Khan | 1 | 8 | 8 | - | - |
| BSM Warnapura | c Gambhir b Pathan | 30 | 44 | 84 | 4 | - |
| ML Udawatte | lbw b Pathan | 43 | 55 | 79 | 6 | - |
| +KC Sangakkara | c Gambhir b RP Singh | 1 | 5 | 9 | - | - |
| *DPMD Jayawardene | c Yuvraj Singh b Ojha | 12 | 25 | 44 | - | - |
| CK Kapugedera | c RP Singh b Ojha | 26 | 63 | 67 | 1 | - |
| J Mubarak | not out | 47 | 55 | 88 | 3 | - |
| MTT Mirando | not out | 54 | 46 | 59 | 6 | - |
| KMDN Kulasekara | did not bat | |||||
| BAW Mendis | did not bat | |||||
| CRD Fernando | did not bat | |||||
| Extras | (6 lb, 1 nb, 6 w) | 13 | ||||
| Total | (6 wickets, innings closed, 222 minutes, 50 overs) | 227 | ||||
| Fall of wickets: 1-1 (Jayasuriya, 1.4 ov), 2-78 (Warnapura, 17.2 ov), 3-80 (Udawatte, 17.5 ov), 4-82 (Sangakkara, 18.4 ov), 5-104 (Jayawardene, 28.1 ov), 6-133 (Kapugedera, 36.6 ov) | ||||||
| India bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls |
| Patel | 7 | 1 | 20 | 0 | - | - |
| Khan | 10 | 1 | 49 | 1 | - | 1 |
| RP Singh | 8 | 0 | 54 | 1 | 3 | - |
| Pathan | 10 | 0 | 52 | 2 | 3 | - |
| Ojha | 10 | 4 | 28 | 2 | - | - |
| Sharma | 2 | 0 | 7 | 0 | - | - |
| Yuvraj Singh | 3 | 0 | 11 | 0 | - | - |
| India innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | |
| V Kohli | lbw b Kulasekara | 31 | 46 | 45 | 3 | 1 |
| G Gambhir | c Sangakkara b Kulasekara | 11 | 16 | 37 | 2 | - |
| Yuvraj Singh | b Mendis | 17 | 23 | 46 | 2 | - |
| SK Raina | c Fernando b Kulasekara | 10 | 13 | 17 | 2 | - |
| RG Sharma | lbw b Kulasekara | 3 | 5 | 11 | - | - |
| *+MS Dhoni | b Fernando | 1 | 7 | 17 | - | - |
| IK Pathan | c Warnapura b Mendis | 7 | 15 | 21 | 1 | - |
| Z Khan | lbw b Mendis | 3 | 10 | 21 | - | - |
| RP Singh | c Jayawardene b Fernando | 4 | 13 | 14 | - | - |
| PP Ojha | c Kulasekara b Mendis | 5 | 9 | 10 | 1 | - |
| MM Patel | not out | 4 | 2 | 4 | 1 | - |
| Extras | (1 b, 2 lb, 4 w) | 7 | ||||
| Total | (all out, 126 minutes, 26.3 overs) | 103 | ||||
| Fall of wickets: 1-38 (Gambhir, 8.5 ov), 2-45 (Kohli, 10.3 ov), 3-70 (Raina, 14.2 ov), 4-76 (Sharma, 16.3 ov), 5-79 (Yuvraj Singh, 18.1 ov), 6-85 (Dhoni, 19.3 ov), 7-90 (Pathan, 22.1 ov), 8-91 (Khan, 24.2 ov), 9-95 (RP Singh, 25.4 ov), 10-103 (Ojha, 26.3 ov) | ||||||
| Sri Lanka bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls |
| Kulasekara | 9 | 2 | 40 | 4 | 1 | - |
| Mirando | 6 | 0 | 26 | 0 | - | - |
| Fernando | 7 | 1 | 24 | 2 | 3 | - |
| Mendis | 4.3 | 2 | 10 | 4 | - | - |
Notes
--> India target was 216 runs in 44 overs
--> Sri Lanka innings: 50 in 12.6 overs
--> Sri Lanka innings: 100 in 25.5 overs
--> Sri Lanka innings: 150 in 40.6 overs
--> Sri Lanka innings: 200 in 46.1 overs
--> India innings: 50 in 10.6 overs
--> India innings: 100 in 26.2 overs
--> J Mubarak passed 500 runs in ODIs when he reached 14
--> MTT Mirando passed his previous highest ODIs score of 44
--> MTT Mirando 50 in 42 balls with 6 fours
--> SK Raina passed 2500 runs in ListA Matches when he reached 10
--> KMDN Kulasekara achieved his best innings bowling analysis in ODIs when he dismissed RG Sharma in the India innings (previous best was 3-28)
Sri Lanka innings
Power Play 2: Overs 10.1 - 15.0
Power Play 3: Overs 15.1 - 20.0
India innings
Power Play 2: Overs 10.1 - 15.0
Power Play 3: Overs 14.1 - 17.0
Rain: India - 70/3 in 14.2 overs (Yuvraj Singh 13), 6 overs lost
BSM Warnapura (20) and ML Udawatte (29) added 50 in 69 balls for the Sri Lanka 2nd wicket
J Mubarak (16) and MTT Mirando (32) added 50 in 41 balls for the Sri Lanka 7th wicket
