India vs Sri Lanka

Originally posted by dips_december   Mithun was quite impressive on his debut and I hope he lives upto our expectations. Its too early too jump to conclusions though but I think India don't deserve to be the no 1 team!

Congrats to Murali, am happy he got the 800, he deserved it big time!  Last wicket in last delivery just like Glenn McGrath, true legends of the game!

Malinga gets injured, or rested as a precautionary move. That will open a place for a seamer. SSC known to be a slow, low, flat trac, and medium pacers may be totally ineffective. Hence no point in talking about Welagedara and Kulasekara.

SL have brought in Nuwan Pradeep, a bowler who gets up to hig 140s, but very green, Fernando and Prasad is the way to go, as both of them are quite aggressive bowlers. In spin department, mendis might come in, but that spinning spots should be filled with Randiv and Senanayake sooner than later


Edited by crapbag - 24 July 2010 at 2:53pm

As expected Indian bowlers are getting another battering. Have to say it is never easy in SRL, but for sure they are missing Zaheer and to some extent Sreesanth. Mithun just does not look test match stuff yet. Harbhajan at times looks toothless.

Might be a draw now as SRL have no Murali and more importantly no Malinga. Glad to see Raina making his debut. Hopefully he will make big use of this chance.

Oops had lot of work, didn't know test match was going on , until I saw few posts here.Shocked to see the score and lineup with Raina and Vijay in scoreboard today.Was not expecting that.

Vijay is good, but IPL success got to his head.Now he will keep his head down and use the opportunity, atleast I hope so.

Originally posted by zuhair_abbasi As expected Indian bowlers are getting another battering. Have to say it is never easy in SRL, but for sure they are missing Zaheer and to some extent Sreesanth. Mithun just does not look test match stuff yet. Harbhajan at times looks toothless. Might be a draw now as SRL have no Murali and more importantly no Malinga. Glad to see Raina making his debut. Hopefully he will make big use of this chance.

Yes SW and the reason is that he think he is a must in this Indian lineup so he is not trying hard.

Flat or not Sam, you have got to do better when you are the number 1 team in the world. This is not on.

Indian batsmen will crumble under the pressure of the big first innings total. Murali Vijay and debutant Raina make the line up look weaker, alongside the ageing Sachin, VVS and Dravid. This team is in big trouble for the future, Australia isn't doing that great, but this India team will be in a big mess post 2011 World Cup. The bowling is pathetic, toothless is the word, no penetration whatsoever. One very ordinary medium bowler, the consistently out of form Sharma and the 2 spinners are pretty average. No team is playing with 4 bowlers except for England and that's because they don't need 5, if they wanted 5 they could easily drop a batsman because the lower order is so strong (Broad and Swann in particular), which I reckon they'll do in the Ashes.  Australia has Watson (with a couple of decent part timers), WI has Bravo, SL has Angelo Matthews (with some decent part timers), SA has Kallis, etc. India looks decidedly ordinary. Only positive is that they'll want to get revenge for these poor outings in their next series, which is against Australia. Then again, Australia will want to fight back after losing to Pakistan. Game on.

But the key here Sledger is why the hell India can't player an all rounder or at least an extra specialist bowler. I mean, if this team is meant to be the best batting line up then they can play 5 batsmen + a keeper and get away with it, true?

Agree the India's bowling is very poor at the moment and Harbhajan isn't being a leader here, he's suppose to be looking for wickets and need to go back to his-self like 2003 and back.

Cricket will be best served if teams refuse to go to India and Sri Lanka too - at least they will play their home series in England then, which means no boring stuff. there is no other way I can see that happening - these boards just don't have the guts to make good pitches.

Look at Sangakkara and Jayawardene's inflated averages. They are better than Sachin and Lara's. *Sigh*

Edited by MalhotraRaj84 - 28 July 2010 at 7:01pm