| Teams: |
| Sri Lanka (Playing XI): Tillakaratne Dilshan, Upul Tharanga, Kumar Sangakkara(w/c), Mahela Jayawardene, Thilan Samaraweera, Chamara Kapugedera, Thissara Perera, Nuwan Kulasekara, Suraj Randiv, Lasith Malinga, Muttiah Muralitharan |
| India (Playing XI): Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Virat Kohli, Yuvraj Singh, MS Dhoni(w/c), Suresh Raina, Harbhajan Singh, Zaheer Khan, Munaf Patel, S Sreesanth |
| Dhoni: Big games, you would always want to put runs on board, but we need to field well. It is important to be calm and cool. We have Sreesanth in place of Nehra. It is a good game, a pressure game and it will be good to restrict the opposition to as little as possible. |
| Sangakkara: We would like to bat first, their side is good and they are the favorites, for us it is all about doing what we do the best. We are excited, everyone is happy to be here. We have got a few changes, we are going in with 6 batsmen and 5 bowlers. Kapugedera is in, Perera and Kulasekara are in. |
| Sri Lanka have won the toss and elected to bat |
| Confusion Confusion, the match referee could not hear what Sanga called. The match referee reckons Sanga has called it wrong, but Sanga thinks otherwise. He says he called it right. Lots of noise in the background, and they couldn't listen to the captain's call. They toss the coin again. |
| Alright, toss time, for one final time here at the 2011 World Cup. |
| MS Dhoni in tournament finals: Played 8, won 4 and lost 4. The Indians have won the 2007 T20 World Cup, the CB series in Australia in 2008, Compaq Cup in 2008 and Asia Cup 2010 under him. They have lost the Kitply Cup that involved Bangladesh and Pakistan, Asia Cup 2008, the tri series in Sri Lanka 2008 and the Bangladesh tri series in 2010. |
