Earlier in the day, Sri Lanka won a dubious toss. At the first instance, none of the two captains or match referee Jeff Crowe seemed to have heard the call made at the time of tossing. They got it right on the second toss-up and Kumar Sangakkara elected to bat first.
It was a slow start by the Sri-Lankan opening pair of Upul Tharanga and Dilshan.They were tied by tight bowling from Zaheer Khan, who bowled a magnificent opening spell. In five overs, he bowled two maidens, gave away just the six runs and took the wicket of Tharanga, caught by Sehwag diving to his right.
Dilshan and Sangakkara put up 43 runs for the second wicket. Harbhajan Singh got Dilshan to play onto his stumps. Mahela Jayawardene came in to join Sangakkara.Sangakkara was out to Yuvraj, caught behind by Dhoni.Mahela Jayawardene scored a classic unbeaten century off 84 balls including thirteen fours to guide Sri Lanka to 274 for six.Thilan Samaraweera was out for 21 and Chamara Kapugedera lasted only six balls.But Perera, played an important inning as the batting powerplay yielded 63 runs.
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