Hi Cricket Lovers
Sorry for being away from writing as was busy with work related stuffs. Still there was no indian cricket happening after the IPL till now though we saw an unfamiliar occurrence when Australia were whitewashed 4-0 in an bi-lateral ODI series which again tells us that they are losing their Top ODI team status. England and SA have shown more consistency in this format in the last 6-8 months. Even Sri Lanka has gained some form after the disastrous last year when they overcame ever-so unpredictable Pakistani team in both the Tests and ODI's. Also, Return of Gayle in the West Indian team was a blessing which helped them win an ODI series against a new look New Zealand Team by a comfortable margin of 4-1.
In a couple of days the Indian team after a long hibernation (4 months) from International Cricket will be playing 5 ODI and one T20 against Sri Lanka. The Indian team will be sans Sachin Tendulkar but will have the services of Virendra Sehwag with Gautam Gambhir at the Top of the order. Followed by Virat Kohli,Rohit Sharma, Suresh Raina and MS Dhoni in the TOP 6. Then the all rounder spot will be full-filled by the Lucky Irfan Pathan who got the chance after Vinay Kumar lost his place due to injury. Irfan will be followed by Ashwin, Rahul/Pragyan, Zaheer and Umesh Yadav .
Others left in the team are Manoj Tiwari,Ashok Dinda and Ajinkhya rahane all of whom might get a chance or two in the next few matches as Dhoni would like to give everyone a much needed match practice as that would be helpful for getting used to Srilankan pitches before the upcoming T20 world cup (sep-oct2012).
While the Indian Team looks good Sri Lankan team is not looking bad as well with the likes of Dilshan, Mahela, Angelo Mathews and Thissara Parera doing well in their recent matches against Pakistan.
I think this series will be a Tough one for India as they will be playing together after a long time while Srilankans have momemtum with them but I still think India will win both the series. I wish them all the best and this series will also help the selectors in pinpointing the performance of some who are in the list of 30 players in the probable players for T20 World Cup. One more good news is that Yuvraj has been named in the list of 30 hence hope he is fully recovered and match fit well before time.
I will be back with more updates soon.
Till then Bye.
Cheers!!
