A buttered-finger India paid a heavy price for a sloppy fielding display to allow Sri Lanka to clinch the first Twenty20 international with a comfortable 29-run run victory and take a 1-0 lead in the two-match series in Nagpur on Wednesday.
The visitors first rattled up an imposing 215 for five riding on captain Kumar Sangakkara’s [...]
India lost to Sri Lanka in the first T20 match at Nagpur. Sangakkara played a brilliant innings to take the team to a massive total. The catching was terrible and the Indians had no clue on how to stop the Lankans. The Indians started off on a good note with Gambhir thrashing the bowlers to all sides. Once he was dismissed, India went on a free-fall that could not be stopped. The R-B dashboard is...
Image via WikipediaIndia and Sri Lanka have met so frequently in the last few months that probably the captains thought that they would change the composition of the team and see how the competition would fare. Sangakkara also wanted to give his bowlers a chance to try their hand at a situation which is not suitable for them. Good thoughts in a tournament that had a 3rd team who did not come to th...
Image via WikipediaWhole-sale changes to the Sri Lanka squad was the talking point - 4 players were drafted to the squad. The Indians had the forced change of Kohli in place of Yuvraj. This was the first time after 5 years that India were playing without MSD and Yuvraj.The start of the innings was unusually slow what with the first maiden bowled by an Indian bowler (Ashish Nehra) in this series. B...
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