India v. Sri Lanka: ODI Series 2008 Quiz

Answer: Sri Lanka 2-1

The test series between India and Sri Lanka was won by Sri Lanka thanks to some sensational bowling by debutant bowler Ajantha Mendis who spun a web around the Indian batsman. Mendis had first taken on the Indian batsman in the Asia Cup and he had spun them out, he repeated the performance in the test series and helped his team to win 2-1.

Answer: Dhoni and Jayawardene

MS Dhoni was the captain of the Indian team for the one day series and Mahela Jayawardene, the captain for Sri Lanka. Dhoni had earlier opted out of the test series citing fatigue. But he returned to captain the one day side. India's 'fab four' Tendulkar, Dravid, Laxman and Ganguly did not play in the series.

While Tendulkar was out with an injury, the other three were not considered for selection by the Indian selectors.

Answer: India won 3-2

The one day series was won by India 3-2. The first ODI was played at Dambulla and Sri Lanka won convincingly by 8 wickets. India came back to win the next three ODIs by 3 wickets (Dambulla), 33 runs (Colombo) and 46 runs (Colombo) respectively, thus clinching the series.

The last one day was played at Colombo and Sri Lanka trounced India by 112 runs, leaving the series result at 3-2 in favour of India.

Answer: M S Dhoni

India's 3-2 win was courtesy a good batting performance by M S Dhoni, who scored 193 runs in 5 matches with 2 fifties. He also effected 4 dismissals behind the stumps to help India win the series with his all-round performance.

Answer: Jayawardene

Sri Lankan captain Mahela Jayawardene topped the batting performance for his team with 185 runs in 5 matches at an average of 46.25 with a highest score of 94. Thushara was behind him with 168 runs.

Answer: Vaas

Sri Lankan pace bowler Chaminda Vaas achieved the significant milestone of 400 wickets. He achieved this milestone in the fourth ODI when he had Yuvraj Singh caught by Jayawardene. He was the fourth bowler to achieve this milestone, the others being Wasim Akram (502), Waqar Younis (416) and Vaas' own colleague Muralitharan (478).

Answer: Mendis

Once again, the astounding bowling of Ajantha Mendis had India in trouble at the start of the series. It was only later on in the series that they were able to counter him. Mendis ended up with 13 wickets in 5 matches at an excellent average of 11.69 with a best bowling performance of 4/10.

Answer: Zaheer Khan

Zaheer Khan took the most wickets for India in the series with 9 wickets in 5 matches at an average of 18.50. Munaf Patel was close behind with 7 wickets.

Answer: Kirsten and Bayliss

South African batsman Gary Kirsten coached India in the series. Sri Lanka was coached by former New South Wales cricketer Trevor Bayliss. Greg Chappell and Tom Moody had coached India and Sri Lanka in the past.

Answer: Virat Kohli

Virender Sehwag who played in the test series had to return home due to an injury. The batting was opened by Virat Kohli along with Gautam Gambhir. Virat Kohli got a chance to make his debut in the series. Kohli came into the limelight as captain of the Indian under-19 team which won the 2008 Under-19 World Cup.