# Indian cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2008

The India national cricket team toured Sri Lanka from 23 July to 29 August.

## Squads

| Tests | Tests | ODIs | ODIs |
| Sri Lanka | India | Sri Lanka | India |
| Mahela Jayawardene (c) Tillakaratne Dilshan Prasanna Jayawardene (wk) Chamara Kapugedera Nuwan Kulasekara Ajantha Mendis Muttiah Muralitharan Dhammika Prasad Thilan Samaraweera Kumar Sangakkara Chamara Silva Thilan Thushara Chaminda Vaas Michael Vandort Malinda Warnapura | Anil Kumble (c) Virender Sehwag (vc) Gautam Gambhir Rahul Dravid Sachin Tendulkar Sourav Ganguly VVS Laxman Rohit Sharma Dinesh Karthik (wk) Parthiv Patel (wk) Harbhajan Singh Ishant Sharma Zaheer Khan RP Singh Munaf Patel Pragyan Ojha | Mahela Jayawardene (c) Tillakaratne Dilshan Dilhara Fernando Sanath Jayasuriya Chamara Kapugedera Nuwan Kulasekara Ajantha Mendis Jehan Mubarak Muttiah Muralitharan Kumar Sangakkara (wk) Chamara Silva Thilan Thushara Mahela Udawatte Chaminda Vaas Malinda Warnapura Kaushalya Weeraratne | MS Dhoni (c & wk) Yuvraj Singh (vc) Virender Sehwag (vc) Sachin Tendulkar Gautam Gambhir Rohit Sharma Suresh Raina Virat Kohli Parthiv Patel (wk) Irfan Pathan Praveen Kumar Harbhajan Singh Zaheer Khan RP Singh Munaf Patel Pragyan Ojha S Badrinath |

## Test Series
### 1st Test

* 23–27 July Scorecard
* Sri Lanka won by an innings and 239 runs Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo Umpires: Mark Benson (Eng) and Billy Doctrove (WI) Player of the match: Muttiah Muralitharan (SL)
* Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat.
* Bad light ended play early on day 1 as well as day 3.
* Ajantha Mendis (SL) made his Test debut.

### 2nd Test

* 31 July – 4 August Scorecard
* India won by 170 runs Galle International Stadium, Galle Umpires: Billy Doctrove (WI) and Rudi Koertzen (SA) Player of the match: Virender Sehwag (Ind)
* India won the toss and elected to bat.
* Bad light ended play early on day 1 as well as day 3.

### 3rd Test

* 8–12 August Scorecard
* Sri Lanka won by 8 wickets Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu Stadium, Colombo Umpires: Mark Benson (Eng) and Rudi Koertzen (SA) Player of the match: Kumar Sangakkara (SL)
* India won the toss and elected to bat.
* Bad light ended play early on day 2.
* Dhammika Prasad (SL) made his Test debut.

## ODI series
### 1st ODI

* 18 August Scorecard
| India 146 (46 overs) | v | Sri Lanka 147/2 (34.5 overs) |
| Yuvraj Singh 23 (30) Ajantha Mendis 3/21 (9 overs) | | Mahela Jayawardene 62* (80) Munaf Patel 2/32 (9 overs) |
* Sri Lanka won by 8 wickets Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium, Dambulla Umpires: Asoka de Silva (SL) and Billy Doctrove (WI) Player of the match: Ajantha Mendis (SL)
* India won the toss and elected to bat.
* Virat Kohli (Ind) made his ODI debut.

### 2nd ODI

* 20 August Scorecard
| Sri Lanka 142 (38.4 overs) | v | India 143/7 (39.5 overs) |
| Thilan Thushara 44 (46) Zaheer Khan 4/21 (9.5 overs) | | Mahendra Singh Dhoni 33 (54) Ajantha Mendis 2/22 (10 overs) |
* India won by 3 wickets Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium, Dambulla Umpires: Billy Doctrove (WI) and Gamini Silva (SL) Player of the match: Zaheer Khan (Ind)
* India won the toss and elected to field.
* Subramaniam Badrinath (Ind) made his ODI debut.

### 3rd ODI

* 24 August Scorecard
| India 237/9 (50 overs) | v | Sri Lanka 204 (49 overs) |
| Mahendra Singh Dhoni 76 (80) Ajantha Mendis 3/56 (10 overs) | | Mahela Jayawardene 94 (111) Munaf Patel 3/42 (10 overs) |
* India won by 33 runs R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo Umpires: Billy Doctrove (WI) and Tyron Wijewardene (SL) Player of the match: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (Ind)
* India won the toss and elected to bat.

### 4th ODI

* 27 August Scorecard
| India 258 (49.4 overs) | v | Sri Lanka 212 (46.3 overs) |
| Suresh Raina 76 (78) Thilan Thushara 5/47 (8.4 overs) | | Sanath Jayasuriya 60 (52) Harbhajan Singh 3/40 (10 overs) |
* India won by 46 runs R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo Umpires: Billy Doctrove (WI) and Gamini Silva (SL) Player of the match: Suresh Raina (Ind)
* India won the toss and elected to bat.

### 5th ODI

* 29 August Scorecard
| Sri Lanka 227/6 (50 overs) | v | India 103 (26.3 overs) |
| Thilan Thushara 54 (46) Pragyan Ojha 2/28 (10 overs) | | Virat Kohli 31 (46) Ajantha Mendis 4/10 (4.3 overs) |
* Sri Lanka won by 112 runs (D/L method) R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo Umpires: Billy Doctrove (WI) and Tyron Wijewardene (SL) Player of the match: Nuwan Kulasekara (SL)
* Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat.