India play Sri Lanka in the first Test match of the three match series from Sunday. This piece previews the chances of both the sides.
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PCB has appointed Shahid Afridi as the captain of the Pakistan side to feature in the ICC World T20 this year in the West Indies. Pakistan, who had won the tournament last year by beating Sri Lanka in the final was without a captain after most of their captain-material players were eight banned for an year or more or were fined and hence not in reckoning. Afridi was one of them but the PCB chief, Ejaz Butt seems to have pardoned him for the lapses and appointed him the skipper.
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Virender Sehwag’s statements about how he did not rate the Bangladeshi bowlers too much almost backfired on the first day of the first Test match at Chittagong as they lost eight wickets in 63 overs scoring only 200 odd runs.
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The Kotla controversy refuses to die down. Only a couple of days after the game at the Feroz Shah Kotla was abandoned due to an unfit pitch, there have been contrasting views that have come out from the different stakeholders of the game.
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As if to prove that the Green Park wicket in Kanpur will not be left behind to Motera in Ahmedabad, in dishing out tracks that afford nothing to the bowlers, and conversely everything for the batsmen, more than 400 runs were scored on the first day of the second test match between India and Sri Lanka. That Sri Lanka managed to scalp two wickets was a big enough relief but there was nothing more for the fielding side to cheer for.
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India will go into the fifth and the final day of the first test match against Sri Lanka at Ahmedabad, 144 runs behind and with eight wickets still standing. And with the pitch playing the manner in which it is, the prospects of a result look very remote.
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