India v Sri Lanka, 1st Test, Ahmedabad, Nov 16-20

1st test for Indian team in nearly 8 months.

yay! should be interesting

is ZAK back?

when he left the game he was probably the best fast bowler in test cricket.

yes. should really help us

PlanetPakistan wrote:is ZAK back?

when he left the game he was probably the best fast bowler in test cricket.

That's quite an assertion.

When was the last time that the Indians even played some first class cricket?

Let's hope the pitch isn't a bowler's graveyard.

the pitch will be as dead as the prospects of next year's Comm Games going ahead

JGK wrote:When was the last time that the Indians even played some first class cricket?

VVS, Dravid, Zaheer and Mishra have all been playing FC cricket.

Others couldn't, simply because of such a surfeit of int'l cricket (read ODIs).

Dhoni wins toss and India will be batting first.

India team
V Sehwag, G Gambhir, R Dravid, SR Tendulkar, Yuvraj Singh, VVS Laxman, MS Dhoni*†, Harbhajan Singh, Z Khan, I Sharma, A Mishra

Sri Lanka team
TM Dilshan, NT Paranavitana, KC Sangakkara*, DPMD Jayawardene, TT Samaraweera, AD Mathews, HAPW Jayawardene†, KTGD Prasad, HMRKB Herath, M Muralitharan, UWMBCA Welegedara

So no Mendis, Kulasekhara and Thushara.

India will score 600+.

India in dire straits.

Dream spell from Welegedara.