Colombo: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa will watch the Sri Lankan cricket the World Cup final to be played between India and Sri Lanka at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on April 2.
The President and his three sons were keen spectators on Tuesday night when Sri Lanka beat New Zealand to reach the final to meet India,” Rajapaksa”s spokesman Bandula Jayasekera told reporters. . “He (Rajapaksa) wants Sri Lanka to win the World Cup as a tribute to Muttiah Muralitharan who retires from international cricket after this World Cup,” he added.
Sri Lanka has been beaten India once and been defeated once in two World Cup encounters at this ground, in 1986-87 and 1996-97.
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