Sri Lanka won the first ODI against the visitors quite easily by 8 wickets

1. FIRST ODI 18 August 2008

3. TOSS India won the toss. Elected to bat first

4. TEAMS

6. Fall Of Wickets India 1/0 (Gautam Gambhir, 0.2 ov.), 2/23 (Virat Kohli, 7.5 ov.), 3/36 (Suresh Raina, 11.5 ov.), 4/73 (Yuvraj Singh, 19.4 ov.), 5/75 (Rohit Sharma, 20.3 ov.), 6/87 (Mahendra Singh Dhoni, 27.2 ov.), 7/87 (Irfan Pathan, 28.3 ov.), 8/107 (Zaheer Khan, 36.6 ov.), 9/117 (Harbhajan Singh, 42.1 ov.), 10/146 (Munaf Patel, 45.6 ov.)

9. Fall Of Wickets Sri Lanka 1/18 (Sanath Jayasuriya, 6.2 ov.), 2/45 (Kumar Sangakkara, 12.5 ov.)

11. RESULT

12. Sri Lanka leading the series 1-0