Sri Lanka's Upul Tharanga acknowledges the crowd after scoring a century against India during their fourth ODI in Kolkata. (Photo: AP) 
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Sri Lanka set India 316 to win series

Opting to bat first, Sri Lanka scored 315 for six against India in the fourth ODI at Eden Gardens in Kolkata.

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KOLKATA: Opting to bat, Sri Lanka scored 315 for six against India in the fourth cricket one-dayer at Eden Gardens in Kolkata.

Earlier, Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara won the toss and elected to bat first in the fourth cricket one-dayer against India at the Eden Gardens here today.

Both India and Sri Lanka made one change in their playing eleven from the last match.

While India brought in Virat Kohli in place of Yuvraj Singh, who was ruled out of the series due to a finger injury, Thissara Perera will make his debut for Sri Lanka in injured Chanaka Welegedera's place.

India lead the five-match series 2-1.

Scoreboard:

Sri Lanka:

Upul Tharanga b Khan 118

Tillakaratne Dilshan c Kohli b Nehra 9

Sanath Jayasuriya c Tendulkar b Khan 15

Kumar Sangakkara st Karthik b Harbhajan 60

Mahela Jayawardene run out (Nehra) 33

Thisara Perera c Jadeja b Nehra 31

Thilina Kandamby not out 23

Thilan Samaraweera not out 13

Extras (lb 3, w 10) 13

Total (for six wickets in 50 overs) 315

Fall of wickets 1-31 (Dilshan, 7.6 overs), 2-72 (Jayasuriya, 12.5), 3-198 (Sangakkara, 36.3), 4-234 (Tharanga, 42.1), 5-271 (Perera, 45.1), 6-287 (Jayawardene, 47.2)

Bowling

Zaheer Khan 10 0 49 2

Ashish Nehra 9 1 68 2

Ishant Sharma 7 0 67 0

Harbhajan Singh 10 0 53 1

Ravindra Jadeja 9 1 51 0

Virender Sehwag 3 0 15 0

Suresh Raina 2 0 9 0

Match details

Toss Sri Lanka who chose to bat

Umpires: Marais Erasmus (South Africa) and Sanjay Hazare (India)

TV umpire: Shavir Tarapore (India)

Match referee: Alan Hurst (Australia)

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