2nd ODI, India vs Sri Lanka @ Nagpur

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Its tomorrow :slight_smile: 18-12-09

Venue :Nagpur

State :Maharashtra

D/N match

Start Time:14:30 (09:00 GMT)

India is leading the 5 one day series, 1-0

India won the 1st ODI by 3 runs, with Sri Lanka giving a fighting reply in its chase for 414 runs

After Sreesant, Team India’s conditioning coach, Paddy Upton is also down with Swine Flu

Indian batsman Gautam Gambhir, team manager Mayank Parekh and video analyst were also tested as all the three had showed swine flu like symptoms but were later tested negative.

Yuvraj Singh won’t be playing the 2nd ODI as he is dowm with Flu and is also yet to recover from the finger injury

**Virendra Sehwag has recovered from injury and will play the 2 nd ODI **

Sri Lanka’s off spinner Muttiah Murlidharan and pacer Dilhara Fernando have been ruled out of the ongoing India Sri Lanka series 2009

Sri Lanka have two new off spinners Muthumudalige Pushpakumara and Suraj *****v in the squad

The toss will be very crucial as the dew factor will come into play in the second half of the match. It is believed that the team winning the toss might elect to field first, inspite of both the teams relying heavily on their batting

India probable:-

1 Virender Sehwag, 2 Sachin Tendulkar, 3 Gautam Gambhir, 4 MS Dhoni (capt & wk), 5 Suresh Raina, 6 Virat Kohli, 7 Ravindra Jadeja, 8 Harbhajan Singh, 9 Praveen Kumar/Sudeep Tyagi, 10 Zaheer Khan, 11 Ashish Nehra.

Lanka Probable:-

1 Upul Tharanga,2 Tillakaratne Dilshan, 3 Kumar Sangakkara (capt & wk), 4 Mahela Jayawardene, 5 Sanath Jayasuriya, 6 Thilan Samaraweera, 7 Thilina Kandamby, 8 Angelo Mathews, 9 Nuwan Kulasekara, 10 Chanaka Welegedara/Ajantha Mendis/ Muthumudalige Pushpakumara, 11 Lasith Malinga/Suranga Lakmal.

Pitch and conditions

This will be only the second one-day international played at this venue - the first was a run fest. India racked up 354 against Australia and then won by 99 runs. The pitch is expected to be conducive for run-making, as it was during the Twenty20 when Sri Lanka made 216 in 20 overs. Scattered showers are forecast by the weather bureau, with temperatures of 27C predicted.

Stats and trivia

  • Virender Sehwag, during the course of his 102-ball 146, was most severe on Angelo Mathews, plundering 27 runs off 10 balls.

  • Harbhajan Singh was India’s best bowler in the face of an onslaught from Sri Lanka’s top order. It showed in his figures against centurion Tillakaratne Dilshan: in 26 balls bowled to Dilshan, the batsman only managed 17 runs.

Quotes

“I expect scores of over 300 for sure. But the fast bowlers will definitely get some help early on with the new ball, and fielding first may not be a bad option.”

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India will tomorrow's match :)

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The fielding arena has to improve.It was pathetic to see fielders missing out catches and giving away runs in the first ODI. T.Dilshan had survived out long before he completed his innings .Hope that Indians will learn lessons from their previous match.

The following are taken from Cricinfo :-

The Indian batting machine is in prime form, but the shoddy fielding has captain MS Dhoni worried. Three chances were grassed by India during Sri Lanka’s spirited pursuit of 415 in the first ODI in Rajkot. That added to some appalling fielding in the two Twenty20s took the dropped catches’ tally to 12, over 90 overs of limited-overs cricket in one week. And then there were the missed run-outs.
“We were fielding well in patches and not dropping catches at the international level,” Dhoni said in Nagpur ahead of Friday’s second ODI. "You may drop the odd difficult catch but straightforward chances need to be taken. In the last three-four games we have dropped a lot of regulation catches. Of course it bothers me.
“At the same time it will be solved at some point because of the effort that we are putting in. We are hoping we don’t drop catches in this game.”
India did hold their nerve in the field towards the end of the Rajkot game, when Sri Lanka needed only 15 runs in the final two overs. Two run-outs in the penultimate over and a Sachin Tendulkar catch off the third-last delivery helped India edge home by three runs.
The bowling from Zaheer Khan and Ashish Nehra at the death, another facet where India haven’t excelled, came in for praise from Dhoni. “It was one of the best in the past year. I have always said we had not been very consistent with the death bowling,” he said. "In the last game, in the last five overs we gave away only 27 runs. It was a very good effort.
“Ashish bowled five overs in a row. There was a bit of reverse-swing going, which actually helped us a bit.”
Dhoni said that on superb batting tracks like in Rajkot, the key is to stop singles. “Normally you don’t get wickets like that. It was not a big ground with the straight boundary not more than 60-65 yards. Since the wicket was so nice, it was easy for the batsmen to clear the field. It’s important not to give easy singles.”
Looking ahead to the second one-dayer in Nagpur, Dhoni said he expected another run-fest. India racked up 354 when they played Australia in an ODI last month, and 401 runs were scored in the Twenty20 against Sri Lanka last week. “In the last T20 game here there was good bounce. The wicket for the match looks like good and flat. I had a conversation with the curator.”

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Will India be able to comfortably defend 400 this time?

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^India can score the highest total in ODI this time :)

India will win :)

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the kind of pitches they r preparing for the series.......they can even score 500 :P

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It wasnt comfortable even last time. SL came pretty close to winning :)

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Pitches can only do so much. You still need batsmen who can play :hehe:

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^ Well, the pitches can do whole a lot. Lankan batsmen who couldn't score much in test matches are able to score 400 runs in an ODI. I feel sorry for the bowlers. :)

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^^^^
ya u r right :D
ICC should take a look at this .....the pitches should support both the bowlers and batsman

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The SL batsmen who “couldnt score much in test matches” were still able to post scores of ~ 400 or so :smiley: What more did you expect ?

And you guys were blaming the test match pitches as being flat. Accept it dude, some teams can bat and others just cannot :hehe:

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thats what im trying to say some teams can only bat on pure dead pitches n n others can bat on both :D

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Accept it, these are flat pitches. Even cricinfo is calling them dead wickets. :slight_smile: 400 runs in a day in test match, 800 runs in an ODI is enough for the bowlers to beg for forgiveness. :slight_smile:

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what ??? a Fighting reply you mean 411 against 414 is fighting ??? :rotfl:
some people are so hilarious :rotfl:

It was a gone case dear! SL lost it by their own!

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hindians can not defend anything, blame to SL who lost the game

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India will win :)

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accept it dude, Some teams can bowl others just cant even if they are given 400 to defend. :rotfl:

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Welcome to the city of Oranges :)

India to bat first :)

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Sehwag the crusader has hit a 4 in the very first ball :)