Australia
 India
 Sri Lanka

 Series
 Aust v India
 Aust v SL
 India v SL
 One-Day Int'l

 Colombo (RPS)
 Colombo (SSC)
 Galle

India and Sri Lanka played each other with exactly the same side they had fielded previously in the Aiwa Cup. Sachin Tendulkar won the toss and elected to bat first on a wicket that looked hard and full of runs. India got off to a reasonably brisk start, scoring at over 5 runs an over for the first 9 overs. Just when it looked like the indian top order was getting back into form, Saurav Ganguly needlessly ran himself out. He had made 9 runs. Tendulkar and Dravid then batted steadily and pushed the Indian score on to 83 at the end of 15 overs. Rahul Dravid then fended at a ball wide outside off-stump and presented an easy catch to Kaluwitharana off the bowling of Vaas. Just 10 runs later, Tendulkar was run out attempting to take a suicidal single. Tendulkar had scored 37 runs off 58 balls. Jadeja and Khurasiya then built a partnership of sorts before the latter holed out to Indika de Saram on the on-side boundary. At this stage India had lost their way, and did not look like they would make a competitive score. Robin Singh breezed in and was gone before he could score too many. Continuing the trend of sloppy running between the wickets, MSK Prasad and Kumble were run out. At the end of the 40th over India were 172 for 6. The rest of the Indian tail floundered and could not muster up very many runs. At the end of 50 overs, India were 205 for 8.

Sri Lanka came in to bat knowing they were chasing a small target. This gave Jayasuriya enough confidence to go after the Indian bowling. Jayasuriya displayed his batting form of old and cracked boundaries off all the Indian bowlers. When the ball was short, he rocked on to the back-foot and pulled the ball magnificently to the square-leg boundary. When Ganguly came on to bowl Jayasuriya came down the track and thumped him through the off-side.  While Jayasuriya was blazing a trail, Marvan Atapattu kept his cool and supported Jayasuriya ably. In a rare rush of blood, Jayasuriya came down the track to Chopra and was beaten all ends up by the flight. MSK Prasad whipped the bails off in a flash and Jayasuriya was dismissed for a well made 61 off 62 balls. Gunawardene came in and played a cracking cut shot for four before he was caught behind off the bowling off Chopra for 6. The Sri Lankan Vice-Captain Mahela Jayawardane joined Atapattu and began to score steadily. With no pressure on the Sri Lankans, they began to play with extreme caution, milking the Indian bowlers for runs. Robin Singh got a ball to cut back slightly, and Jayawardene dragged the ball back onto his stumps. Jayawardane had made 27 runs off 34 balls. The next man in was youngster Indika de Saram. Atapattu along with de Saram batted safely and took Sri Lanka to victory off 46.4 overs, with 7 wickets to spare. For his innings of 73 not out off 124 balls, Marvan Atapattu was named man of the match.

The match was one that slipped out of the Indians grasp in the first 50 overs itself. Having made a very small score, it would have taken a small miracle for India to win. That miracle just did not happen.