The nostalgia train reaches the last station today, with Sachin Tendulkar‘s India taking on Tillakaratne Dilshan’s Sri Lanka in the Road Safety World Series Final.
Sri Lanka won the toss and India were asked to bat first.
Both India and Sri Lanka were the two teams to beat in the league stages, while they beat West Indies and South Africa respectively in the semifinal. India’s opening combination of Sachin Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag has fired at the top of the order for India, while there have been some match-winning contributions from the likes of Yuvraj Singh and Irfan Pathan. For Sri Lanka, the star performer with both bat and ball has been Tillakaratne Dilshan. Nuwan Kulasekara also put in a star turn in the semifinal.
India Legends (Playing XI): Virender Sehwag, Sachin Tendulkar(c), Yuvraj Singh, Yusuf Pathan, S Badrinath, Naman Ojha(w), Irfan Pathan, Manpreet Gony, Vinay Kumar, Pragyan Ojha, Munaf Patel
Sri Lanka Legends (Playing XI): Tillakaratne Dilshan(c), Sanath Jayasuriya, Upul Tharanga(w), Chinthaka Jayasinghe, Chamara Silva, Kaushalya Weeraratne, Russel Arnold, Farveez Maharoof, Nuwan Kulasekara, Dhammika Prasad, Rangana Herath
