India VS Sri Lanka final of ICC World Cup 2011

Blue shirts will take on Eye-Landers in the India VS Sri Lanka final of ICC World Cup 2011, scheduled to be play at Wankhede Stadium of Mumbai. Sangakkara-XI entered into finals by defeating New Zealand by runs in the 1st semi-final while Dhoni-Xi qualified for the final by getting 29 runs in the 2nd semi-final.

India vs Sri Lanka final: Performance of both in the tournament

India got the 2nd position in group-B after playing the pool matches round. Dhoni-XI started their World Cup journey with 83 runs victory over Bangladesh. They tied their second group game against England. In the third and fourth league match, they win the matches against Ireland and Netherlands by 5 and 6 wickets respectively. Blue shirts lost the game against South Africa by 3 wickets while they defeated West Indies by 80 runs. India ended the campaign of defeating champion Australia by got 5 wicket victory over them in the 2nd quarterfinal of the mega event. India reached into the finals by getting 29 runs victory over Pakistan.

Sri Lanka got the same rank in Group-A after playing the group matches with 9 points. Lankans started their mega event campaign with a big margin victory of 210 runs against Canada. They lost their second match against Pakistan by 11 runs. Sri Lanka defeated Kenya by 9 wickets while their encounter with Australia was abounded due to rain and both teams carried one point each. Eye-Landers routed Zimbabwe and New Zealand by 139 runs and 112 runs respectively in their fifth and sixth league match. Sangakkara-XI entered into semi-final by defeating England by 10 wickets while they got the 5 wicket victory over New Zealand in the semi-final.

Sri Lanka’s Tillakaratne Dilshan is the leading runs scorer in the World Cup 2011. He has the scored 467 runs in 8 matches with the average of 56.60. Zaheer Khan is the 2nd leading wicket taker of the World Cup. He got 19 wickets in 8 matches, with the average of 64.80. If Zaheer will pick 3 wickets in India vs Sri Lanka final, he will become the most wicket taking bowler of this tournament.

India vs Sri Lanka final: head-to-head record in WC

India and Sri Lanka have played 7 times against each other in world cups and Sri Lanka leads 4 to 2 with one no result. Stay with us for live updates of India VS Sri Lanka final.

India vs Sri Lanka final at Mumbai