Tharanga, who played 20 balls for his 2 runs, edged Zaheer to the slip in the 7th over and Virender Sehwag dived to his right to take a brilliant catch. Sri Lanka lost their first wicket, with 17 runs on the board.Sri Lanka openers Tillakaratne Dilshan and Upul Tharanga started their innings cautiously against India in the World Cup final at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai.
Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara won the toss and elected to bat against India in the World Cup final on Saturday.
The middle order of Sri Lanka though has not needed to be utilised often during the tournament and it will be interesting if India manage to grab a couple of early wickets.
India have made one change from their semi-final line up with Ashish Nehra failing a fitness test and being replaced by Sree Sreethanth.
Sri Lanka have made four changes in total: Out go Mendis, Herath, Silva along with the injured Matthews, with Randiv, Kulasakera, Kapugedera, Perera coming into the side.
Footnote: Two of three games here during the tournament have been won by the team batting first, with the average first-innings score being 234.
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