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*Official* Sri Lanka in India

G.I.Joe

G.I.Joe

International Coach
Cricinfo have an article on the rankings scenario, which essentially boils down to SA needing to beat England by a margin of 2 tests or more to move up to #1. If England beat SA by a margin of even 1 test, SA will slide down to 3rd spot. Australia have a long shot at #1 provided they beat both the WI and Pakistan 3-0 at home, plus beating Pakistan by any margin in England.

To summarise, Go England!, Go WI and Pakistan! :p
 
silentstriker

silentstriker

The Wheel is Forever
ret said:
According to FTP, in 2010 India is playing

- 2 tests in BD
- 3 tests against SA in Ind
- 2 tests in Zim
- 3 tests against NZ in Ind
- 3 tests in SA (probably Dec 2010 - Jan 2011)

That's 13 tests before the WC2011 in Feb
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The SA series has been canceled, and will now be only five ODIs. The two Tests against Zimbabwe won't be played obviously. And the return series in SA might be canceled due to WC commitments, so it looks like somewhere between 5-8 Tests, and 3-6 Tests not counting Bangladesh.
 
ret

ret

International Debutant
silentstriker said:
The SA series has been canceled, and will now be only five ODIs. The two Tests against Zimbabwe won't be played obviously. And the return series in SA might be canceled due to WC commitments, so it looks like somewhere between 5-8 Tests, and 3-6 Tests not counting Bangladesh.
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That's sad! :wallbash:
 
Furball

Furball

Evil Scotsman
silentstriker said:
The SA series has been canceled, and will now be only five ODIs. The two Tests against Zimbabwe won't be played obviously. And the return series in SA might be canceled due to WC commitments, so it looks like somewhere between 5-8 Tests, and 3-6 Tests not counting Bangladesh.
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Thought the SA series was the South Africans coming back to play the ODIs they didn't play in 2008?
 
silentstriker

silentstriker

The Wheel is Forever
It is, they were supposed to also play 3 Tests though, and then India would go back to SA a few months later. But it was changed to a five ODI series only.
 
ret

ret

International Debutant
So in a way there is nothing much to look forward too in 2010 for Indian fans except IPL and possible test series in SA

The two definite test series in 2010 against BD (2 tests) and NZ (3 tests) are hardly a matter of staying up late (though better than a barrage of ODIs and T20s that few would remember once over) unless Sehwag is scoring another triple

So basically till the 2011 WC, it's IPL and the away test series in SA (hopefully it will be on) that will be of high interest!
 
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silentstriker

silentstriker

The Wheel is Forever
I have a feeling the NZ/BAN tours might be canceled too, or converted to ODIs. BCCI has made no secret of their wish to be very heavy on the prep for the subcontinent ODIs anyway. Not that they need that excuse.
 
Pratters

Pratters

Cricket, Lovely Cricket
I am hoping and I do think they will blood Sudeep Tyagi tomorrow. He is a fine talent. All the best to him.
 
Pratters

Pratters

Cricket, Lovely Cricket
India is preparing themselves for the T20 World Cup in early 2010 and then the ODI world cup in 2011. That's why they are not playing a lot of tests. Dhoni wont be resting himself. I would have liked India to play more tests and it sucks that guys like Tendulkar, Dravid could have really made it count in tests in the next 12-14 months can't do it. Whatever.
 
Edged&Taken

Edged&Taken

U19 Vice-Captain
how the teams stack up. sree may not play ..

India (possible): 1 Gautam Gambhir, 2 Virender Sehwag, 3 Suresh Raina, 4 Yuvraj Singh, 5 MS Dhoni (capt & wk), 6 Rohit Sharma, 7 Yusuf Pathan, 8 Pragyan Ojha, 9 Sreesanth, 10 Ishant Sharma, 11 Ashish Nehra.


Sri Lanka (possible): 1 Tillakaratne Dilshan, 2 Sanath Jayasuriya, 3 Kumar Sangakkara (capt & wk), 4 Mahela Jayawardene, 5 Chamara Kapugedera, 6 Angelo Mathews, 7 Kaushalya Weeraratne, 8 Nuwan Kulasekara, 9 Ajantha Mendis, 10 Lasith Malinga, 11 Chanaka Welegedara.
 
Shri

Shri

Mr. Glass
Ishant sent down a few screamers in that over. Pitch has extra bounce, Ishant looks threatening.
 
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