COLOMBO: The triangular series gets underway in Colombo on Tuesday with a Sri Lanka-New Zealand game but the main focus during the tournament
will be on India.
Specifically, on whether MS Dhoni’s men can become the top-ranked ODI team going into the Champions Trophy, which follows immediately after. India are just one point behind leaders South Africa, [...]
Sachin Tendulkar is the leading run scorer in the New Zealand tourdespite of missing 2 ODIs and not being a part of the T20 team .SRT was at his aggressive best in the tests tooscoring 344 runs at a strike rate of 61+ his 53 fours are just one short of "brilliant" gambhir but adding his three sixes He scored the max runs in boundaries from both sides.---------------------------------------------...
MS Dhoni said that New Zealand beat India by 200 runs in a one-day game because the pitch was a bit spongy. We presume he meant it was like the sponge above, rather than being like those jelly creatures that race along the sea floor at speeds of up to 4mm per day.
Sri Lanka are [...]
Starts in a couple hours, and has the potential to be either really entertaining or a snoozefest. We’ve seen some great cricket in the last few weeks, so groundsman permitting, this should be fun to watch.
Here are the squads, with the likely XI in bold:
India: MS Dhoni (capt), Virender Sehwag (vice-capt), Gautam Gambhir, Suresh Raina, Cheteshwar Pujara, M Vijay, Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendu...
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