India vs http://www.senore.com/Cricket/West-Indies-c760: 3rd Test - Match Preview
India must be eager to inflict a series whitewash on the visiting West Indies side when they play the tourists in the third and the last Test of three-match series, starting at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on Tuesday, November 22, 2011.
India are currently leading the three-match series 2-0 and Darren Sammy and his men would be desperate to at least draw the Mumbai Test to avoid a 0-3 whitewash.
Though India have won the first two games of the ongoing Test series quite comfortably, the visitors did show some fight in both the games. In the first Test, played at Feroz Shah Kotla stadium of New http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Delhi-c780, West Indies bundled India out for just 209 in
their first innings after scoring 304 and went on to dominate the game for almost four days before the Indians struck back and took away the game from them by five-wickets.
In the second Test, played at the flat Eden Gardens pitch, the Windies initially struggled against the well settled Indian batting line-up as three of the veteran home batsmen went on to score centuries to take the side to 631 for 7. In reply to India’s
mammoth first innings total, the tourists were rolled over for just 153 in their first innings. However, after being told to follow-on, the West Indian batsmen played some good cricket and troubled the Indian bowlers for a full four-sessions, scoring 463 in
their second innings, thanks to http://www.senore.com/Cricket/DM-Bravo-c1386’s valiant 136.
All eyes would be set on Master Blaster http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SR-Tendulkar-c2556 as he is still awaiting his record hundredth ton, and many are expecting him to achieve the milestone at the home ground. The Mumbai Cricket Association has already announced that it will shower hundred
gold coins if the little batting maestro scores his historic ton of tons during the third Test.
The stylish middle order batsman http://www.senore.com/Cricket/RG-Sharma-c2309 has been called in place of Yuvraj. However, promising Viart Kohli is already in the
squad and will most probably replace the stylish http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Punjab-c833 batsman in the middle-order.
India is unlikely to make changes to their formidable bowling attack featuring http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746 series, commencing next month.
Curators of the Wankhede Stadium have promised a sporting wicket, offering bounce to the bowlers throughout the Test.
"It is a sporting track. There is some grass on it,” http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 opener and the pitch curator at Wankhede Stadium, said while talking to the media reporters ahead of the inconsequential third Test of the series.
“On the first three days it will assist the seamers and will help the spinners on the fourth and fifth day. Even the West Indies bowlers would love bowling here," http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Naik-c78500 added further.
Squads:
India (probable) 1 http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Umesh-Yadav-c94625
West Indies (probable) 1 http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Fidel-Henderson-Edwards-c57010, 11 Devendra
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