( CNN ) -- India reached the final of the Cricket World Cup for the third time after beating fierce rivals and neighbors Pakistan by 29 runs in Mohali on Wednesday . Mahendra Singh Dhoni 's team will play fellow co-hosts Sri Lanka in Saturday 's final in Mumbai , with both teams seeking to win the 50-over tournament for the second occasion in the first all-Asia title match . The semifinal in Punjab province was Pakistan 's first match in India since the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks which further strained relations between the two sub-continent nations . Cricket fans in both countries abandoned work to watch the match on television and giant screens in stadiums , while respective prime ministers Manmohan Singh of India and Pakistan 's Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani attended the game in a show of diplomacy . When cricket means more than just a match . Veteran batsman Sachin Tendulkar top-scored with a fortuitous 85 as India posted a total of 260-9 in their allotted overs , while Wahab Riaz claimed five wickets for Pakistan to give his team a reasonable total to chase . But India took vital wickets at regular intervals , as 1992 champions Pakistan were bowled out for 231 off the penultimate delivery with Misbah-ul-Haq top-scoring on 56 . The victory sparked scenes of jubilation among India fans in Mohali , CNN correspondent Mallika Kapur reported . `` The main roads are blocked by cars . People are sitting on top of them , beating drums and dancing on the roads . Men have taken their T-shirts off and are screaming and shouting . A really electric atmosphere ! '' Kapur said . `` Some people are hanging out of car windows -- some are standing on top of cars and waving the Indian flag . '' Pakistan prime minister in India for cricket diplomacy . Tendulkar , who scored 98 when India beat Pakistan in the group stages of the 2003 tournament , survived a strong appeal for leg before wicket and was dropped four times before becoming the fifth man to fall with the total at 187 . The 37-year-old , the world 's highest run-scorer in both limited-overs and Test formats , hit 11 fours from 115 balls faced until he was finally caught by Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi to be the first of two wickets for Saeed Ajmal . It put him second behind Sri Lanka 's Tillakaratne Dilshan as the tournament 's leading scorer , with 464 from eight innings , and earned him the man-of-the-match award . `` It 's always memorable to play against Pakistan , and to be on the winning side five times against them is a memory I will always cherish , '' he told AFP . `` But it was a brilliant effort in the field and by the bowlers today . When we batted we had to make sure we got a fighting total . I thought 310 or 315 would have been a good par score . Then the ball started stopping and spinning and something closer to 270 was par . '' Riaz , playing just his 18th one-day international , had taken three of those first five wickets including dangerous big-hitter Yuvraj Singh for a first-ball duck immediately after he dismissed Virat Kohli ( 9 ) . The 25-year-old left-arm fast bowler was unable to get rid of Dhoni and claim a memorable hat-trick , but he later trapped the India skipper lbw for 25 and finished with career-best figures of 5-46 . Riaz also helped to run out tailend batsman Ashish Nehra as India scored only 60 runs in the final 10 overs . Pakistan made a solid start in reply with 44 on the board before Kamran Akmal fell to Zaheer Khan with the final ball of the ninth over , becoming the left-armer 's 18th wicket of the tournament . Akmal made a brisk 19 off 21 balls faced , while his fellow opener Mohammad Hafeez scored 43 from 59 before being second man out . At 102-2 the match was still in the balance , but spinner Yuvraj dismissed Asad Shafiq ( 30 ) and veteran batsman Younis Khan ( 13 ) to turn the tide in India 's favor . Umar Akmal tried to get Pakistan 's run-rate back to the required level with a quickfire 29 off 24 balls , including two sixes , but when he was bowled by Harbhajan Singh it left his team needing 119 runs from 16.5 overs . Misbah was the last man out , caught in the deep by Kohli off Zaheer , but his runs came off a pedestrian 76 deliveries and he was not able to force the pace until Pakistan 's victory bid became almost a lost cause . All the Indian bowlers ended with two wickets each , with Zaheer moving above New Zealand 's Tim Southee into second place in the overall standings behind Afridi , who has 21 in total for the tournament .
India to face co-hosts Sri Lanka in Cricket the Cricket World Cup second all- Asia final . Saeed Ajmal top-scores with 231 as India beat Pakistan in semifinals in Mohali . Home team score 260 -9 from allotted 50 overs , while Pakistan all out for 50 . Match was Pakistan 's first in India since the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks .