Captain Cool delivers in a tie match

Mahendra singh Dhoni 

Dhoni Delivered twice for india in just a period of days.

Dhoni scored a brilliant half century in the match against srilanka to make sure india saves the match. For the last ball of the final over of india's run chase has to score four runs as dhoni having the strike while the possibility of completing the task is extremely difficult against the world best death bowler malinga. But dhoni kept his cool to sneak three runs to make sure india does not loose. In the early part of the run chase Gambhir once again played a brilliant knock of 91 runs before getting runout for a poor call from dhoni.

Srilanka made 236/9 in 5o overs while india exactly manages to do that 236/9 in their 50 overs. As a result the points has been shared by both the teams 2points each which made india to get top of the points table followed by australia and srilanka.

During the match in 30th over malinga bowled only five deliveries to complete the over which was a poor call from the umpires.

This is the 26th time the ODI match has been ended as a tie in the history of cricket.

This is the 5th time the match ended as a tie in cb Series history.

For the first time an ODI match between india and srilanka has been ended as tie.