Commonwealth Bank series: http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758 - Match Preview
The finalists of last year’s http://www.senore.com/Cricket/ICC-World-Cup-2011-c100625 World Cup, India and Sri Lanka, are all set to lock horns for the first time since the grand occasion at the WACA Ground Perth, on Wednesday, February 8, 2012.
Both sides do not have an impressive record going into the game. The Islanders are coming at the back of heavy defeats at the hands of South Africa. India has tasted heavy defeats against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746. The clash of the struggling Asian cricketing giants is
being anticipated to be a high-voltage encounter.
India, fresh from a moral sapping humiliation at the hands of Australia in the tri-series opener, would be eager to get on the board, while the Lankans will be keen to avenge their world cup loss by crushing the already bruised and battered Men in Blue.
After a relatively impressive win in the second T20 at Melbourne, Dhoni’s Men in Blue failed to repeat their sterling performance in Sunday’s series opener at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, as they slumped to a deflating 65-run loss.
India looked the same lousy side that lost the Test series by a whitewash at the hands of Australia. It was their batting that had let them down in the Test series, as well as the first ODI against Australia. But a relatively weak Sri Lankan bowling attack
that is also unaccustomed to the conditions Down Under, gives the beleaguered Indian batsmen an opportunity to bounce back.
Sri Lanka on the other hand come to Australia with their confidence a bit better as they won the last two One Day Internationals in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/South-Africa-c757, which saw the Lankans chasing down 300 plus targets and that too against an intimidating bowling attack. Dinesh
Chandimal and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Hettige-Don-Rumesh-Lahiru-Thirimanne-c63124 are the young batting prospect of Sri Lanka coming into the series.
The top six look very solid on paper which includes the veteran http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SL-Malinga-c2540.
The swashbuckling http://www.senore.com/Cricket/G-Gambhir-c1447 will be dropped.
Coming to the Indian bowling attack, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/MS-Dhoni-c2028 made the folly of playing a three-pronged spin attack at Melbourne last Sunday, a decision that eventually backfired for the visitors. Also the wicket at WACA is considered to be a pace-friendly track, so Dhoni
would consider playing one of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/RA-Jadeja-c2238, who leaked 41-runs in his brief spell of 2.4 overs, is likely to make for the third seamer.
Both India and Sri Lanka are being slated as underdogs for the tri-nation Commonwealth Bank series, which also includes hosts Australia and a victory in tomorrow’s game would give the winner a chances of making it to the best of three final.
India: (possible) 1 Virender Sehwag, 2 http://www.senore.com/Cricket/P-Kumar-c2143/Umesh Yadav/Zaheer Khan
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