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Tillakaratne Dilshan Sanath Jayasuriya Kumar Sangakkara (c) (w) Mahela Jayawardene Chamara Kapugedera Thilina Kandamby Angelo Mathews Nuwan Kulasekara Thilan Thushara Ajantha Mendis Lasith Malinga Malinga Bandara Muttiah Muralitharan Thilan Samaraweera Dammika Prasad Upul Tharanga | Virat Kohli Sachin Tendulkar Rahul Dravid Yuvraj Singh Mahendra Singh Dhoni (c) (w) Suresh Raina Yusuf Pathan Harbhajan Singh Rudra Pratap Singh Ashish Nehra Ishant Sharma Dinesh Karthik Praveen Kumar Amit Mishra Abhishek Nayar |
Hello and welcome to the big final of the Compaq Cup between Sri Lanka and India at the Premadasa in Colombo. India were absolutely hammered by the Lankans on Saturday as Angelo Mathews ripped the heart out of the Indian middle-order with a 6-fer. But today is a new day and the Indians would hope that they can turn the tables on the Lankans when it matters most in a big final.. | |
| Rahul Dravid and Sachin Tendulkar are at the crease. Rahul Dravid is on strike. Nuwan Kulasekara will open the attack | |
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| Right then we are all ready to go as the players amble out. It will be me, Srivathsa and Nishant Majithia who will be bringing it to you. It looks like Dravid is walking out alongwith Sachin. Hmmmm... | |
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| Trivia: While SL have played in 36 of them winning 20 and losing 15, also they have shared the CT in 2002 alongwith India. | |
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| Trivia: India have played 47 tournament finals winning 19 and losing 26 with 2 of them being shared | |
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| saneindian: supportindia should know that the team for CT is already announced and Kohli isn't there..in any case DK deserved his chances as an opener after doing well in WI as an opener..in fact DK should have played today as well. | |
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| Pitch: It looks nice and flat says Ranil Abeynaike, no grass on it, but he says that the team that is batting second will have a tough time under the lights as it gets low and slow. 250 is a par score on this wicket. The weather looks fine as of now, although some showers are predicted for later in the day.. | |
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| supportindia: This doesnt make any sense.. Virat Kohli being drafted in only to perform or perish, this young kid deserves more...Irrespective of his performance he will shown door in CT as SRT and GG will open.... | |
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| Sri Lanka (Playing XI): Tillakaratne Dilshan, Sanath Jayasuriya, Kumar Sangakkara(w/c), Mahela Jayawardene, Chamara Kapugedera, Thilina Kandamby, Angelo Mathews, Nuwan Kulasekara, Thilan Thushara, Ajantha Mendis, Lasith Malinga | |
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| India (Playing XI): Virat Kohli, Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Yuvraj Singh, Mahendra Singh Dhoni(w/c), Suresh Raina, Yusuf Pathan, Harbhajan Singh, Rudra Pratap Singh, Ashish Nehra, Ishant Sharma | |
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| Sri Lanka are playing the same side from Saturday.. | |
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| Virat Kohli replaces Dinesh Karthik, which is the only change from Team India... | |
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| India have won the toss and elected to bat | |
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| Tony Greig has done some research on Dilshan and says that he has the worst run-out record among all present players in the ODI format. Dilshan's run-out's amount to 16.3 % of all his dismissals. | |
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