Re: @Insan,@Murali,@Alexzader Emror,@madan M,
by insan on Dec 21, 2009 02:35 PM
We are fine dude. how about u? well all other friends have switched to the match forum.
Zaheer Khan has got the white new ball and will start off proceedings for India. Here we go..The players are walking out to the middle. Tillakaratne Dilshan and Upul Tharanga will open for the visitors.The atmosphere is building quite nicely with the crowd pouring in full flow. It's already electrifying with all the seats almost full and no place for the extra ones coming in. Should be a cracking contest!Sri Lanka are playing a batsman short. Two spinners in Mendis and Randiv. Kulasekara and Malinga are back in the side as seamers.For India, Yuvraj is back in place of Kohli. Ishant comes back replacing P.Kumar while D.Karthik will keep wickets in place of Dhoni.Right then, the news coming in from the center is that Sri Lanka have won the toss and elected to bat first. New Indian skipper Sehwag anyways wanted to field first and chase down the target.A talk about the Cuttack wicket. It will be a bit on the slower side and will keep a touch low as well. The spinners might extract some turn from it but one has to say that the batsmen will still have no real worries. It won't be a high scoring game though but still one can expect a close contest.The visitors have another name in their injury list as Angelo Mathews was ruled out of the series. Hence, even the Sri Lankan line-up will have a few changes.Some news before the start of the game. Both the sides a losing some key players due to forced issues. The home side will be missing skipper MS Dhoni who was handed a 2 ODI ban for sl
