Colombo: With the series already won, a relaxed India will take on beleaguered Sri Lanka in the last cricket one dayer on Friday, hoping its out of form batsmen would find their form in an otherwise inconsequential match.

With Wednesday's 46-run victory fetching India an unassailable 3-1 lead in the five-match Idea Cup, ensuring their first-ever bilateral ODI series triumph against Sri Lanka and the team is finished tour with win. Out of form batsmen are Gautam Gambhir, Yuvraj Singh and Rohit Sharma and the team hopes they too would join the party on Friday.

There, however, is no such worry with the bowlers who did an excellent job in the series. Zaheer Khan, Munaf Patel and Harbhajan Singh once again rose to the occasion on Wednesday and helped in containing the hosts with their intelligent bowling. But India may be rest of Zaheer Khan, Harbhajan Singh and MS Dhoni, replaced with RP Singh, Pragyan Ojha and Parthiv Patel in final XI.

Friday's game could still be a cliffhanger as Sri Lankans were not very short of the Indian total during the last two match, losing by 33 and 46 runs respectively. They only need a few of their star batsmen to click before they turn the corner and bridge the deficit 3-2.

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