By Paul Eddison

Red-hot: India’s Rohit Sharma celebrates his latest century, this time against Sri Lanka
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Ton: Angelo Mathews

AS ANGELO Mathews rolled back the years to record his third ODI century there was just a feeling that India might be heading into the semifinals of the World Cup on the back of a second loss in three games.
After all, this has not been a World Cup for chasers and, prior to this game, only Bangladesh had managed to hunt down a score in excess of 250.
Conventional wisdom dictated that you win the toss and bat. Dimuth Karunaratne did ...