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Kedar Jadhav and Niroshan Dickwella were making their ODI debut. They became 205th and 161st player to represent India and Sri Lanka respectively. (Also Read:  Kohli century leads India to 5-0 series victory ) For the first time in the series Sri Lanka did not lose a wicket in the batting powerplay. Playing his 138th match and 116 innings, Angelo Mathews (139*) scored his maiden ODI hundred. He had scored 24 fifties with a highest of 93. Mathews completed his 1,000 runs in ODIs in the year 2014 when his score reached 77. He became first player to reach this landmark this year (later Virat Kohli became the second batsman to accomplish this feat). Having already scored 1,044 runs in Test cricket this year, Mathews became only the third captain to aggregate 1,000 runs in a calendar year both in Tests and ODIs. Sachin Tendulkar (in 1997) and Ricky Ponting (in 2005) are the two other captain to do so. Sri Lanka made 73 runs in last five overs with Angelo Mathews contributing 60 ...

The All-India Senior Selection Committee met in Mumbai earlier today to select the Indian teams for the last two matches of the Micromax Cup India vs Sri Lanka ODI Series, 2014 The teams are as follows: INDIAN TEAM FOR THE LAST TWO MATCHES OF THE MICROMAX CUP: Virat Kohli (captain), Ajinkya Rahane, Rohit Sharma, Ambati Rayudu, Suresh Raina, Robin Uthappa, Axar Patel, Karn Sharma, R. Ashwin, Umesh Yadav, Dhawal Kulkarni, Stuart Binny, Vinay Kumar, Kedar Jadhav. Shikhar Dhawan and Ravindra Jadeja have been rested for the last two matches. source: bcci.tv

The All-India Senior Selection Committee met in Mumbai, earlier today, to pick the Indian teams for the tours of Bangladesh. ( Useful Link:   Schedule: India’s ODI Tour of Bangladesh 2014 ) The teams are as follows: INDIAN TEAM FOR THE ODI SERIES IN BANGLADESH Suresh Raina (Captain), Robin Uthappa, Ajinkya Rahane, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ambati Rayudu, Manoj Tiwary, Kedar Jadhav, Wriddhiman Saha, Parvez Rasool, Akshar Patel, Vinay Kumar, Umesh Yadav, Stuart Binny, Mohit Sharma, Amit Mishra. source: bcci.tv