Bellerive Oval was the venue for Scotland's penultimate match in the 2015 World Cup with Sri Lanka the opposition.

Angelo Mathews won the toss for the Sri Lankans and he elected to bat against a Scottish side which showed three changes from the one defeated by Bangladesh., with Freddie Coleman, Michael Leask and Rob Taylor coming in for Hamish Gardiner, Majid Haq and Iain Wardlaw.

Scotland got an early breakthrough with the total on 21, when Lahiru Thirimanne was caught by Mommsen at second slip off the bowling of Evans.

This wicket brought the arrival of Sangakkara to the crease and together with Dilshan the pair put on a further 195 runs for the second wicket before Dilshan departed for 104. His runs had come from just 99 balls and the innings included 10 fours and one six. It was their twentieth century stand in ODI's

Danger man Jayewardene could only muster four runs before he was the third man to fall with the score on 244, and he was followed back to the pavilion by Sangakkara without further addition to the total.

Sangakkara had made 124 his fourth consecutive century in ODI's the first man in history to do so and his knock included thirteen fours and one six.

Captain Angelo Mathews made full use of the platform set up by his two centurions as he hit the second fastest fifty of the competition from twenty deliveries reaching it by hitting Machan for four consecutive sixes.

There was further misery for Scotland when Richie Berrington was forced to leave the field in the penultimate over when he fell in his follow through seeming to hurt his knee in the process and bursting his shoe as well.

Sri Lanka closed their innings on 363 for 9 the highest total against Scotland in an ODI surpassing the 362 for 3 made by Australia in 2013 at Raeburn Place.

Josh Davey again was the pick of the Scottish attack with 3 for 63 to lead the wicket takers table, with Evans and Taylor picking up two wickets each and Taylor and Machan one each.

The Scotland reply could not have got off to the worst possible start when Coetzer the centurion from the previous match was dismissed by Lasith Malinga with only two balls bowled.

He was deceived by a slower delivery giving a simple return catch to the bowler.

Calum Macleod's miserable run with the bat continued as he was clean bowled by Kulasekara for 11 to leave Scotland on 26 for 2.

Machan who had looked in reasonable touch was the next wicket to fall as he was trapped in front by Dilshan for 11 to leave Scotland in trouble on 44 for 3.

Mommsen and Coleman then set about repairing the early damage which they did with some sensible batting, treating each ball on its merits and taking advantage of any wayward deliveries.

They put on 118 for the fourth wicket before Mommsen was out caught at short cover by Thirimanne for a well compiled 60.

Coleman was joined by Berrington at the crease and the pair looked to attack at each opportunity taking the score to 189 before Coleman looking to do over the top only succeeded in finding the safe hands of Perera. He had contributed 70 runs at just under a run a ball.

Three runs later Michal Leask was given out in bizarre circumstances when he went to hit a short delivery through mid-wicket. The ball appeared to miss the bat and went into the gloves of Sangakkara who in the first instance was more concerned with a wide ball being called.

Belatedly the Sri Lankans decided to appeal for a caught behind and on reply it was shown on ‘snicko' that a faint touch had come off the bottom of the bat resulting in Leask being out for 2 and it was 192 for 6.

This catch by Sangakkara took him to the top of the World Cup wicketkeeper dismissals list with 53 passing the previous record held by Adam Gilchrist.

With the fall of these wickets the run rate started to climb as the batsmen found runs hard to come by.

Only Berrington with 29 showed any resistance as the lower order batsmen fell cheaply and Scotland were dismissed for 215 in the forty fourth over.

Kulasekara finished with 3 for 20 and Chameera with 3 for 51 with Malinga Perera and Dilshan sharing the other wickets.

After the match Preston Mommsen was disappointed that they could not have put on a bigger score but he believed his players will have learned a lot playing against some of the best cricketers in the world and they now have to push on in future.

Scotland will now look forward to their final match in the World Cup which is against hosts Australia at the same venue on Saturday 14 March.