Sri Lanka [ Images ] were not likely to chase down 282 in 38 overs; 240 was the sort of target that offered both the teams an even chase. Sri Lanka's pressure index (PI) therefore opened at 139.

The final wasn't completely one-sided; there was a phase between overs 13-23 when Sanath Jayasuriya [ Images ] and Kumar Sangakkara [ Images ] certainly had Ricky Ponting [ Images ] and his boys worried. During this phase the PI hovered around 120.

Things got harder when Sangakkara left, but Jayasuriya and Mahela Jayawardene [ Images ] still kept the PI around 125.

Then things got murky, it looked like rain and Sri Lanka thought they had to accelerate quickly to catch up with the D/L par score (with a PI above 120, it was easy to deduce that S/L were behind the D/L par score; recall that the PI is based on resource tables not dissimilar to the D/L table).

That's when they lost the plot because a lot of wickets fell between the 4's and 6's hit in the run scramble. Sri Lanka were eventually defeated by a combination of cricketing and non-cricketing variables.

In the process, the ICC [ Images ] umpires and officials too were completely defeated.

Once both teams complete 20 overs (I've never understood why the minimum was reduced from 25 to 20, even for a World Cup), there has to be a verdict that very day!

It was very surprising that umpire Aleem Dar didn't know this. But I sometimes wonder if Dar even knows his lbw rule well; Rahul Dravid [ Images ] didn't look lbw in that match against Bangladesh.

Sunil T and Sunil Patil of Cranes Software created this pressure map based on the details retrieved from the Rediff scorer