India vs Sri Lanka: 2009 Trivia Quiz

Answer: India won 4-1

India and Sri Lanka played a five match one day series for the IDBI Fortis trophy in January and February 2009 in Sri Lanka. The series was won comprehensively by India 4-1. India won the first four games to clinch the series. Sri Lanka won the last match of the series.

Answer: Oldest player to score a century

The first one day match of the series was in Dambulla. Batting first, Sri Lanka made 246/7, thanks to a blistering century from Sanath Jayasuriya. He scored 107 runs of 114 balls with 1 six and 10 fours. He created a unique record by becoming the oldest cricketer to score a century at 39 years and 212 days.

He broke the record of Geoffrey Boycott, who had scored a century at the age of 39 years and 51 days.

Answer: Kumar Dharmasena

Former Sri Lankan cricketer Kumar Dharmasena took up umpiring as a career, post-retirement. The first one day match marked Dharmasena's debut as an International umpire. The very first decision he gave was to judge Tendulkar out leg before, when the replays indicated that the ball had pitched well outside the leg stump.

In the next two matches Tendulkar was given out leg before and on both the occasions, replays indicated that the ball would have missed the leg stump. Tendulkar could score only 18 runs in his 3 innings.

Answer: Wasim Akram

In the fourth one day match of the series, Sri Lankan off-spinner Muralitharan took the wicket of Indian opener Gautam Gambhir (caught behind). This was his 503rd wicket and made him the highest wicket taker in one day cricket. He overtook the record of Pakistan's great fast bowler Wasim Akram, who had taken 502 wickets.

Incidentally at the time of making this record, Murali was also the highest wicket taker in test cricket (with a whopping 769 wickets).

Answer: Yuvraj and Sehwag

The third one day match was played at Colombo and batting first, India made 363/5 in their 50 overs. At 24/2, Yuvraj and Sehwag came together to put up a 221 run partnership for the third wicket. Yuvraj scored a blistering 117 of 95 balls and Sehwag scored 116 of 90 balls. India won the match by 147 runs.

Answer: Dilshan

The one day series saw a total of four centuries - one each from Gautam Gambhir, Virender Sehwag, Yuvraj Singh and Sanath Jayasuriya. Dilshan did not score a century, he was out for 97 in the fifth one day match.

Answer: Yuvraj Singh

India's Yuvraj Singh scored the most runs in the series. He scored 284 runs in 5 matches at an average of 56.80 and a strike rate of 97.59. Sri Lankan wicket-keeper Sangakkara was close behind with 271 runs.

Answer: Ishant Sharma

India's Ishant Sharma was the highest wicket taker in the series, claiming 10 wickets in 5 matches with a best bowling figure of 4/57 (even though he was very expensive, with an economy rate of 6.07). India's Pragyan Ojha and Sri Lanka's Kulashekara followed him with seven wickets each.

Answer: Yuvraj Singh

India's Yuvraj Singh was declared the Man of the Series for his contribution with the bat. He had scored 284 runs with 1 hundred and 2 fifties.

Answer: India won by 3 wickets

The series ended on 10 Feb 2009 with a T-20 match between the two teams. India was led by its T-20 world cup winning captain Dhoni and Sri Lanka was led by Tillekaratne Dilshan. Batting first, Sri Lanka made 171/4 and in reply India was 115/7 in the 15th over.

But a spirited attack by the Pathan brothers - Yusuf and Irfan helped India to clinch the match by 3 wickets. Yusuf Pathan was declared the Man of the Match.