Kumara Sangakkara scored a fine century as Sri Lanka edged past India by five runs in the second one-day international to take a 1-0 lead in the four-match series here Sunday.

Sri Lanka, asked to bat after Rahul Dravid won the toss, scored 257 for eight wickets in 50 overs . In reply, India, despite half centuries from Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly and a 48 from Mahendra Singh Dhoni , managed 252 for nine in 50 overs .

Wicketkeeper Sangakkara scored an elegant 110 (127 balls, 11x4s, 4x6s ) to star in Sri Lanka 's win at the Madhavrao Scindia ground.

Tillekaratne Dilshan scored 56 (65 balls, 7x4s) and pacer Ferveez Maharoof took three wickets to shine for the winners.

For India, Munaf Patel took four wickets and Ganguly (62, 79 balls, 6x4s, 1x4) and Tendulkar (54, 61 balls, 9x4s) batted well, but these efforts went in vain. Tendulkar got a reprieve early in his innings.

This match was crucial for some players on both sides.

Sehwag and Munaf were supposedly on 'trial' as the World Cup squad would be announced Monday.

While the lanky Gujarat pacer seemed to have passed the test, Sehwag , playing his first match since the tour of South Africa, failed again.

Rain had washed out the first match in Kolkata .

The series is now effectively of three matches.



SCOREBOARD

Second one-day international, India vs. Sri Lanka,

Madhavrao Scindia Cricket Ground, Rajkot, Feb 11

Sri Lanka:

W.U. Tharanga c Tendulkar b Sreesanth 11
S.T. Jayasuriya c Dhoni b Patel 9
M.S. Atapattu lbw b Patel 15
K.C. Sangakkara c Sehwag b Patel 110
M. Jayawardene c Dhoni b Sreesanth 4
T.M. Dilshan b Harbhajan Singh 56
R.P. Arnold lbw b Tendulkar 7
F. Maharoof c Karthik b Patel 17
C.M. Bandara not out 3
N. Kulasekara not out 4

Extras: (lb 14, w 4, nb 3) 21

Total: (for 8 wickets in 50 overs ) 257

Fall of wickets: 1-16 ( Jayasuriya , 2.3 overs ), 2-31 ( Tharanga , 5.5), 3-53 ( Atapattu , 10.4), 4-58 ( Jayawardene , 13.2), 5-166 ( Dilshan , 35.3), 6-188 (Arnold, 40.3), 7-249 ( Sangakkara , 48.4), 8-249 ( Maharoof , 48.5)

Bowling:

M.M. Patel 9 0 49 4 (2nb, 2w)
Sreesanth 10 1 39 2 (1nb, 1w)
S. Ganguly 2 0 14 0
Harbhajan Singh 10 0 41 1
A. Kumble 10 1 59 0
S. Tendulkar 9 0 41 1 (1w)


India:

R. Uthappa c Jayawardene b Maharoof 7
S. Ganguly c Sangakkara b Malinga 62
R. Dravid b Maharoof 5
S. Tendulkar st Sangakkara b Bandara 54
V. Sehwag c Sangakkara b Bandara 19
M.S. Dhoni c Maharoof b Jayasuriya 48
D. Karthik lbw b Malinga 31
Harbhajan Singh c Jayawardene b Maharoof 2
A. Kumble run out ( Maharoof/Jayasuriya ) 2
Sreesanth not out 0
M.M. Patel not out 0

Extras: (b 1, lb 5, w 9, nb 7) 22

Total: (for 9 wickets in 50 overs ) 252

Fall of wickets: 1-14 ( Uthappa , 1.3 overs ), 2-29 ( Dravid , 3.2), 3-129 ( Tendulkar , 23.2), 4-154 ( Ganguly , 27.1), 5-169 ( Sehwag , 29.6), 6-235 ( Karthik , 45.4), 7-241 ( Harbhajan , 47.3), 8-248 ( Kumble , 49.1), 9-252 ( Dhoni , 49.5)

Bowling:

L. Malinga 10 0 75 2 (5nb, 4w)
F. Maharoof 10 0 42 3 (2nb, 3w)
N. Kulasekara 10 0 48 0 (1w)
C. Bandara 10 0 36 2 (1w)
S. Jayasuriya 9 0 38 1
T. Dilshan 1 0 7 0

Result Sri Lanka won by 5 runs

Man of the Match: Kumara Sangakkara (Sri Lanka)

Toss: India

Umpires: Simon Taufel (Australia) and S. Shastri (India)

TV umpire: G.A. Pratapkumar (India)

Match referee: Alan Hurst (Australia)