Perera, Dilshan hammer Indian bowlers as SL score 333/3

Young left-hander Kusal Perera and seasoned Tillekaratne Dilshan took the Indian bowling attack to the cleaners as Sri Lanka posted a mammoth 333 for three in the first warm-up game here today, ahead of the Champions Trophy starting June 6.
Dilshan smashed a 78-ball-84 (9x4, 1x6) while Perera also smote Irfan Pathan and Co to all parts of the ground hitting 82 off 94 balls (7x4, 3x6) as they added 160 runs in 26 overs.
The Indian bowlers were unable to dismiss the duo as both retired in order to allow other batsmen get a decent hit out there in the middle.

Seamers Pathan (0/45), Bhuvneshwar Kumar (1/58), Ishant Sharma (1/41) weren't consistent with their length while spin trioka of Ravichandran Ashwin (0/45), Ravindra Jadeja (0/41) and Amit Mishra (1/53) also failed to make inroads.
With the ball nicely coming onto the bat and not much assistance from the pitch for the bowlers, Perera and Dilshan hardly faced any difficulty in hitting through the line from the outset.
It started with a pulled boundary by left-hander Perera off Pathan's first over. The runs started flowing after that as Dilshan launched into Pathan, cover driving him for three boundaries in his second over. With no movement and dishing out military medium stuff, Pathan was smoked for 30 runs in his first spell.

Perera hit Pathan for a straight six and then got a couple of big ones off Ishant -- a pull and one over extra cover. With all 15 players being allowed to play as this match doesn't have ODI status, Mahendra Singh Dhoni used as many as seven bowlers.

Perera was the first to reach half century as he completed the feat in 48 balls while the team's 100 came in the 16th over.
Dilshan reached his 50 in the 21st over and it took the veteran opener 45 balls. After reaching 50, he upped the ante hitting Ashwin for a straight six.

Once Perera retired with the score at 160, Mahela Jayawardene came in and chipped in with 30 (3x4). Dilshan retired at the score 195 while Mahela was the first batsman dismissed by Ishant.
Kumar Sangakkara (45, 7x4) and Dinesh Chandimal (46) also got much needed batting practice.