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A leap of faith in technology
Cricket is about to take a leap of faith in technology with the trial of a system that allows players to challenge the decision of the on-field umpires in the Test series between Sri Lanka and India. The umpire’s word will no longer be final.
The system has been tried, somewhat unsuccessfully, and in the relatively obscure environment of county cricket. But,after a shelved proposal to use it in the current England-South Africa series, millions of television viewers now await the sight of the first-ever referral to be made in an international contest. The jury is out on whether the move is designed to undermine the umpires or to assist them, but the acceptance of the system will depend by the decisions it produces.
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Source: Cricinfo
Preview - India vs Sri Lanka First Test Live!!!!
Match facts
Wednesday July 23 - Sunday July 27, 2008
Start time 10.15am (0445GMT)
Big Picture
The Indian Test team has been in form over the last couple of years but the task before them over the next three weeks is a huge one. Sri Lanka are a formidable team at home - since India’s last tour in 2001, the Sri Lankans have won 11 out of 14 series, losing only to Australia and Pakistan, and drawing a two-match series against New Zealand.
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Source: Cricinfo
Between India and victory stand M3
With India locking horns with Sri Lanka, deny it or not the big difference can be the mystery of Mendis with Murali threat which always looms around.
The headquarters of Sri Lankan cricket, Sinhalese Sports Club (SSC) will play host for first of the three Test match series between India and Sri Lanka. The ground which has 30 Test matches to its credit starting from March 1984 till December 2007. 21 of these games have got results.
Team India has played 5 games of which they have won and lost one game each. The other three games were tame draws. Where as Sri Lanka have suffered defeats only on 6 occasions, drawn seven times and won 15 of the thirty games hosted here. Twice the games were called off for other reasons.
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Source: DNA
Sri Lanka hope to keep home win record in India Test
Skipper Mahela Jayawardene says Sri Lanka are keen to maintain their impressive home record when they take on India in a three-Test series, which starts here on Wednesday.
The hosts have won home series against South Africa, England and the West Indies in the past four years and in the same period have lost just one match in 16 at home — against Pakistan two years ago.
Jayawardene said pride was the key to success.
“We don’t want any team to come and beat us at home. That’s the attitude we go with. There is a lot of pride involved in it and we would like to protect that (record),” he said on the eve of the opening Test.
“We are very consistent at home and we will continue to do that because as I have said there is a lot of pride involved in it.”
Jayawardene denied there was more pressure on his side to win the series against India, who have quality batsmen in Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Venkatsai Laxman, Sourav Ganguly and Virender Sehwag.
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Source: AFP
Dravid: Sri Lanka have right balance
Rahul Dravid cautioned India against taking Sri Lanka’s bowling lightly despite the hosts naming a depleted pace attack for the first Test, which begins on Wednesday.
The hosts, without the injured Dilhara Fernando, Lasith Malinga and Farveez Maharoof, named spinner Ajantha Mendis in a 14-man squad on Monday.
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Source: The Press Association
Indian bowlers make merry
India started their tour of Sri Lanka on an impressive note with their bowlers putting up a tidy display to bundle out Sri Lanka Board XI for a modest 224 on a rain-truncated opening day of the three-day warm-up match in Colombo on Friday.
Electing to bat, the home team never really recovered from a shaky start and could have been skittled out for a much lower first innings total had it not been for a resolute 100-run fifth wicket partnership between Thilina Kandamby (84) and Chamara Silva (68).
Captain Anil Kumble (3/30) was the pick of the Indian bowlers while paceman Zaheer Khan (2/35) and off-spinner Harbhajan Singh (2/52) chipped in with two wickets each at the Nondescripts Cricket Club.
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Source: Hindusthan Times
Gambhir slams half century, match draw
Gautam Gambhir made up for his first innings flop show with a strokeful 60 as the three-day match between India and Sri Lanka Board XI petered to a mundane draw at the Nondescripts Cricket Club Ground on Sunday.
After India declared their first innings at overnight score of 196 for eight, the hosts scored 247 for six in 55 overs before asking Anil Kumble and his men to take strike again.
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Source: Times of India
Record-chasing Tendulkar set to hijack SLanka series
Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar’s bid to become the world’s leading scorer will dominate the three-Test series against Sri Lanka starting here on Wednesday.
Tendulkar is just 172 runs away from surpassing the 11,953 clocked up by retired West Indies captain Brian Lara — a task within the reach of the Indian batsman who likes Sri Lankan pitches.
The star averages 111.66 from six Tests in Sri Lanka with four centuries. His last Test in the country was in 1999 when he cracked a half-century and a hundred in the Asian Test championships.
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Source: AFP
Indians need patience to counter Mendis
Every ex-cricketer seems to have their own formula to play new spin sensation Ajantha Mendis even before he has made his Test debut, so does former Sri Lankan wicketkeeper-batsman Ranjit Fernando, who feels patience will play rich dividends while playing him.
“The best way to play Mendis and read his six different varieties of balls is to spend as much time as possible in the middle. If you are patient and occupy the crease for a long time, you can read him better and make adjustments to play his lethal ‘carrom ball’,” Fernando, who will be on the commentators panel during the series, has told The Times of India on Saturday.
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Source: CricketNext
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