DAMBULLA // The captain Mahela Jayawardene scored a half-century as Sri Lanka coasted to an eight-wicket win over India in the first one-day international yesterday. Jayawardene hit an unbeaten 61 and put on 102 for the third wicket with Chamara Kapugedera (45) to steer his team to a 1-0 lead in the five-match series.
The spinners Muttiah Muralitharan and Ajantha Mendis claimed three wickets apiece as the hosts bowled out India for just 146 after Mahendra Singh Dhoni opted to bat first.
Sri Lanka also lost openers Sanath Jayasuriya (10) and Kumar Sangakkara (19) early, but Jayawardene paced his innings nicely as the home team scored 147-2, overhauling the target in 31 overs.
Jayasuriya, 39, stepped down the track in an attempt to hoist Munaf Patel over the infield, but only managed a top-edge which went straight to Irfan Pathan at mid-on. Patel also dismissed Sangakkara, taking a neat return catch to send back the left-handed batsman as India, completely outplayed until then, hoped to make a match out of it.
But Jayawardene and Kapugedera carefully negotiated the India pacemen as the Sri Lankans raced home with 15 overs to spare. Sri Lanka's new-ball bowler Nuwan Kulasekara picked up a couple of early wickets, while Chaminda Vaas got his team off to a flying start when he bowled Gautam Gambhir for a duck with the second delivery of the day.
India had already lost the in-form Virender Sehwag to injury after the opener twisted his ankle during practice on Sunday.
Yuvraj Singh, who scored 172 in a warm-up match on Friday, had a couple of close calls and was dropped by Jayawardene on five, but Mendis bowled him out for 23 in his first over.
Rohit Sharma also departed just after he looked to have settled at the crease.
Rohit had faced 31 deliveries for his 19 runs and appeared to be gaining in confidence when he steered a delivery from Thilan Thushara straight to Jayawardene in the slips.
Dhoni, back in the team after missing the Test series, was initially cautious, but edged a Mendis delivery to Jayawardene at first slip while attempting to force the pace.
Murali and Mendis then cleaned up the tail as India were bowled out with four overs to spare.
The second one-dayer is at the same venue tomorrow.
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