Sri Lanka has easily defeated India in the first of the two T20Is played in Nagpur. With this loss, the Indians could not make a winning start to their T20Is on this ground at Jamtha, where they had earlier won their first Test match and first ODI as well. The second game of the series will be played at Mohali on Saturday and the Indians will look to come back into the series with a resounding win before going into the ODIs.
Good news for all the Indian fans! Team India has gone on the top of the test match rankings by beating the Sri Lankans rather easily in the third and the final test match at Mumbai. In the process they have also managed to win the series 2-0.
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.
Sachin Tendulkar has completed twenty years in international cricket. He had first played a test match on 15th November, 1989 against Pakistan, as a highly precocious 15-year old and when he walked out to face the Sri Lankans, he was into his 21st year in the international cricket. Unfortunately for him, he scored only four before being bowled by C. Welegedera.
Even as India has lost the home ODI series to Australia, the Sri Lankans are sharpening their claws for the more than a month long tour of India. Sri Lanka will play two T20Is, five ODIs and three test matches on the tour, in what will be their first complete tour after quite a while.
The Australian Cricket Board has said that they have almost reached an agreement with the Indian counterparts for the side to tour the country more often than usual. In fact, it has been said that India could tour Australia in four of the six years in the next ‘Future Tours Programme’.
by Vivek Gite on September 27, 2009 · 1 comment
The Group B of the Champions Trophy is wide open at the end of the first three games in it. The first game had seen the Sri Lankans stun the hosts, South Africa. In the second match, the South Africans made a comeback and beat New Zealand to make it one win out of two. Finally, favourites Sri Lanka was then shocked by England, a side which had only recently lost six games against Australia.