Sri Lanka in India, 2009-10

[SachDan]

Guys next time when on holidays make sure you book a room in one of the Landmark group of hotels :winky:

[DomainK]

Dilshan suffers broken nose But he will play in the next match.

Sri Lanka's opening batsman Tillakaratne Dilshan has fractured his nose after colliding with one of his team-mates while playing football following the first Test against India in Ahmedabad on Friday. Brendon Kuruppu, Sri Lanka's team manager, confirmed the news upon arrival in Kanpur, the venue for the second Test starting Tuesday. Dilshan had to be rushed to hospital where an X-ray revealed the damage. However, Dilshan may yet be available for the second Test. "The injury was put right by the surgeon before we left for Kanpur and Dilshan is out of danger," Kuruppu said. "He is not in any kind of great discomfort. He will resume practice with the rest of the team tomorrow (Sunday)." This is Dilshan's second injury on this tour. Prior to the first Test, he sprained his ankle during practice, but recovered in time to score a century.

Source: http://www.cricinfo.com/indvsl2009/content/story/436065.html

[flamy]

Play the Dilscoop :finger:

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Lankans practice amid tight security Amid heavy security presence, Sri Lankan cricketers on Sunday sweated it out at the nets to prepare for the second cricket Test against India starting in Kanpur on November 24. More... Lankans practice amid tight security November 22, 2009 16:46 IST Amid heavy security presence, Sri Lankan cricketers on Sunday sweated it out at the nets to prepare for the second cricket Test against India starting in Kanpur on November 24. The entire team marched into the ground at around 9:30 am and exercised for a while before practising at the nets. The drawn first Test's double-centurion Mahela Jayawardene, Tillakaratne Dilshan and skipper Kumar Sangakkara did some batting practice with local bowlers. Star off-spinner Muttiah Muralitharan and Ajantha Mendis later bowled for a while. Tight security arrangements had been made for the practice session with a number of policemen stationed at the stadium. There was a breach of security at the stadium on Saturday when a man carrying a gun had entered the premises hours after the two teams landed in the city. The opening match of the series in Ahmedabad had ended in a draw.

[Sachinism]

Dhoni injured - Karthik flown in as cover Wicketkeeper Dinesh Karthik has been rushed to Kanpur after the Indian team management asked for a last minute back-up for MS Dhoni ahead of the second Test against Sri Lanka beginning on Tuesday. Dhoni reportedly hurt his finger during the Ahmedabad Test which ended in a dull draw last Friday. Karthik, the Tamil Nadu captain, was in Dharamshala for the Ranji Trophy Super League match against Himachal Pradesh when he got the call on Sunday afternoon. He last played a Test for India in March, against New Zealand in Napier, after Dhoni opted out due to back spasms. "After a request from the team management Dinesh Karthik has been asked to join the Indian team as a precautionary measure," Ratnakar Shetty, BCCI's chief administrative officer, told Cricinfo. Shetty was not privy to the exact nature of the injury and when exactly Dhoni suffered it. Dhoni had arrived at Green Park on Sunday without any taped fingers nor did he seem in any sort of pain. He batted his full quota during training, hit powerful, flat-bat strokes, and enthusiastically bowled seam-up immediately after removing his batting pads. Team sources indicated Dhoni was most likely going to be declared fit on the eve of the Test and there was a chance Karthik might have to rush back to join his Tamil Nadu team-mates on Monday. Left-arm spinner Pragyan Ojha too could be released for Hyderabad's Ranji Trophy match. Dhoni had played an important role in the first Test, scoring a century and adding 224 runs with Rahul Dravid, a partnership that helped India reach 426 in the first innings after a top-order collapse. He then held a spectacular diving catch to his left to dismiss the Sri Lankan opener Tharanga Paranavitana. http://www.cricinfo.com/indvsl2009/content/current/story/436222.html Should be fine, but :nervous:

[vvvslaxman]

That means Dhoni will play as a batsman?

[Sachinism]

That means Dhoni will play as a batsman?

It says KKD has just been bought in as a precaution. He'll most likely fly back to play for TN

[flamy]

:mad: Dhoni should concentrate on T20s and ODIs.

[Master Blaster]

:mad: Dhoni should concentrate on T20s and ODIs.

shawwwt up

[Guest Evil Mod Consortium]

:mad: Dhoni should concentrate on T20s and ODIs.

Why don't you blame the BCCI for giving Team India too much boring test kirkut? http://www.indiancricketfans.com/showthread.php?t=192175 It's all well and good giving advice like that, but you need to find some scapegoats and people to point fingers at as well!

[ViruRulez]

Hope Dhoni is fine BTW who is the vice-captain for the test series

[Master Blaster]

Hope Dhoni is fine BTW who is the vice-captain for the test series

Sehwag I thinkkkkkk

[ViruRulez]

Sehwag I thinkkkkkk

Sehwag I still remember the second test in the NZ series :afraid: Hope Dhoni is fine. BTW we should get Gauti as the vice captain soon as a backup

[cowboysfan]

ughh-sehwag is not a good captian.they should have picked Dravid.

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India gets ready to put up an improved performance India and Sri Lanka cricket teams, which arrived in Kanpur on Saturday evening from Motera for the second Test starting Tuesday at the Green Park stadium, woke up to a cold but surprisingly sunny Sunday, reports Khurram Habib. More... Time for another Test Khurram Habib, Hindustan Times Kanpur, November 22, 2009 First Published: 23:05 IST(22/11/2009) Last Updated: 01:34 IST(23/11/2009) The teams, which arrived here on Saturday evening from Motera, woke up to a cold but surprisingly sunny Sunday. Harbhajan Singh was his effervescent self, playing pranks, tossing peanuts and daring team-mates to catch them. Ishant Sharma was all game, latching on to the ‘catches’ with remarkable ease, while Zaheer Khan and the others kept themselves busy with a game of football. While S. Sreesanth and VVS Laxman manned the goalposts, MS Dhoni, Sachin Tendulkar and Yuvraj Singh combined to breach the defences of Rahul Dravid and his men, Gautam Gambhir and Virender Sehwag included. After fifteen minutes of action, most of which was spent on controlling the ball, the Indians got down to real business. Dhoni and Sehwag threw caution to the wind, hitting big shots, while Tendulkar honed his forward defensive stroke and back-foot punches against deliveries hurled by Gary Kirsten in a baseball-like manner. At intervals, he discussed the nuances with the coach even as Dhoni sent the local bowlers on a leather-hunt with his heaves and straight drives. Sehwag, meanwhile, clattered the India bowlers — Ishant, Amit Mishra and Pragyan Ojha with intent. He clipped them off his toes, dispatched cover drives to the boundary and even played inside out for big hits. Gambhir, after his match-saving vigil two days ago, freed his levers to go into the overdrive. The manual scoreboard displaying India’s XI, had one change from Ahmedabad. Sreesanth was there instead of Mishra and the bowler from Kerala hogged the limelight. Running in at full throttle, the medium pacer was impressive, hurrying Dravid onto the back-foot and forcing the veteran to leave a few deliveries at the last moment. He looked good and pitched consistently around the good length spot. But Mishra seemed a bit out of sorts — or, perhaps, he was relaxing his tired limbs. He was negotiated easily, swept comfortably, even slammed a few times by Dravid and Laxman. Meanwhile, Sri Lanka opener Tillakaratne Dilshan has a fractured nose but he might be fit for the second Test, which begins on Tuesday. However, seamer Dhammika Prasad is still a big worry for the visitors as he struggles to get into peak shape. Going by the way Ajantha Mendis and Dilhara Fernando toiled all Sunday afternoon, the visitors might include them in the playing XI. Fernando bowled at maximum space, while Mendis, who was ignored for the first Test, bowled alongside Muttiah Muralitharan.

[Sachinism]

MS Dhoni declared fit for Kanpur Test

[DomainK]

Yup. Mahi is back.

[rkt.india]

Will they play Sreesanth, a big questions, as Ishant is struggling with his action and rhythm?

[diegovegaz]

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Sri Lanka pacer Prasad to miss second Test Injured Sri Lanka pacer Dhammika Prasad will miss the second Test against India starting in Kanpur on Tuesday but opener Tillekaratne Dilshan will play despite suffering a broken nose. Prasad, 26, picked up a hamstring strain on the final day of last week's high-scoring drawn first Test in Ahmedabad and will not be considered for the second contest of a three-match series. More... Prasad out, Mendis in reckoning for second Test: Sangakkara Last updated on: November 23, 2009 17:47 IST Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara on Monday ruled pacer Dammika Prasad out of the second Test against India and said mystery spinner Ajantha Mendis is very much in his scheme of things for the match. Prasad had strained his hamstring there and Sangakkara said the team was not considering the 26-year-old right-arm pacer even though there was no such apprehension about in-form batsman Tillakaratne Dilshan who broke his nose while playing football. "Dilshan broke his nose but is perfectly fine now. Dammika strained his hamstring and is recovering well. But we are not considering him at this moment," Sangakkara said. Muttiah Muralitharan shared the spin responsibility with Rangana Herath in Ahmedabad with little success and Sangakkara said chances are that Mendis would break into the playing XI. "Ajantha is always in the reckoning. With the confidence and balance our team has, we can play three spinners if we want to. Or we can also replace Dammika Prasad with another fast bowler. Or we can also change a spinner. We have quite a few combinations on mind and it would take a concrete shape by the evening," he said. Sangakkara conceded Muralitharan's below-par show in Ahmedabad was "unusual" but dismissed suggestions that Sri Lanka paid the price for their over-dependence on the wily off-spinner. "When you have world's leading wicket-taker in your side, you got to depend on him. There cannot be any second question about that. Murali has done it for us for years, like Sanath (Jayasuriya) and (Chaminda) Vaas. But the great thing about our team is that we have great supporting players as well. Murali had Vaas, Herath and Mendis to do that. "And I don't think Murali struggled in Ahmedabad. He has been a match-winner all the time," Sangakkara asserted. "Cricket is a team game. If one player fails to deliver, others have to chip in. We believe in all our players and think they are good enough. We often look forward to the part-timers like Dilshan chipping in with wickets. At the end of the day, it has to be a team effort," he added. The Motera track in Ahmedabad drew flak for being so placid that nearly 1600 runs were scored, including seven centuries, while just 21 wickets fell over five days. A miffed Harbhajan Singh called it a bad advertisement for Test cricket but Sangakkara refused to make a fuss over it. "Well, the track was quite placid but we have to back ourselves to do well on all kind of surfaces. You have to keep trying. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. But if you keep trying, chances of happenings are high," he said. In comparison, the track here at the Green Park looked livelier but Sangakkara still reserved his verdict. "Maybe it has more grass on it but it's quite dry underneath. Unless you play, you don't know," he said.