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One of the world’s leading tea-producing nations, Sri Lanka, becomes the scene for a new world record – the largest cup of tea.

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MaaTujheSalaam.net Sreesanth and Zaheer Khan have been recalled into Indian cricket team for Sri Lanka test series. Temperamental paceman S Sreesanth, whose on-field antics have often landed him in trouble, was on Tuesday surprisingly included in India’s 15-member squad for the first two Tests against Sri Lanka starting on November 16 in Ahmedabad. Pace spearhead Zaheer Khan expectedly returned to the squad after recovering from a shoulder injury, which had kept him out of the tri-series in Sri Lanka and the ensuing Champions Trophy in September. The team to be captained by Mahendra Singh Dhoni also includes Tamil Nadu players opener Murali Vijay and middle-order batsman S Badrinath, while pacers Ashish Nehra and Munaf Patel were ignored. Team Mahendra Singh Dhoni (capt), Virender Sehwag, Sachin Tendulkar, Gautam Gambhir, Rahul Dravid, VVS Laxman, Yuvraj Singh, Harbhajan Singh, Amit Mishra, Zaheer Khan, Ishant Sharma, M Vijay, Pragyan Ojha, S Sreesanth and S Badrinath.

Watch West Indies vs Sri Lanka ICC World Cup Live Streaming : In Today’s match, West Indies is facing against Srilanka on May 7th, 2010. ICC world cup Twenty 20 match is start at 11.00PM(IST).

West Indies has reached super Eight from Group D and Srilanka has reached Super Eight from Group B. Both teams has played 2 matches. West Indies has won 2 matches and Srilanka has won 1 match, these lost 1 match, West Indies has won 1 match against England and Ireland. Srilanka has won one match against Zimbabwe and lost 1 match against New Zealand.West Indies has got 4 points and Net PR is +2.780 and Srilanka has got 2 points and Net PR is +0.355.Based on the ratio West Indies has got high ratio than Srilanka.

Time: 23:00P.M(IST).

Match Venue:Kensington Oval,Bridgetown, Barbados.

Dilshan and Sangakkara’s low returns this tournament and in the IPL are as uncharacteristic as their modes of dismissals although the common thread seems to be starving them of runs.

Against New Zealand, Dilshan faced 19 balls for his three while Sanga faced 11 balls for his four, against Zimbabwe they both tried to belt their way back into form but fell for 2 and 3 respectively.

West Indies team:

CH Gayle*, SJ Benn, DJ Bravo, S Chanderpaul, N Deonarine, ADS Fletcher, WW Hinds, NO Miller, KA Pollard, D Ramdin, R Rampaul, KAJ Roach, DJG Sammy, RR Sarwan, JE Taylor.

Sri Lanka team:

KC Sangakkara*, M Muralitharan, LD Chandimal, TM Dilshan, CU Jayasinghe, ST Jayasuriya, DPMD Jayawardene, S Randiv, CK Kapugedera, KMDN Kulasekara, SL Malinga, AD Mathews, BAW Mendis, NLTC Perera, UWMBCA Welegedara.

Watch India vs Sri Lanka 4th ODI Live: The 2-1 scoreline is not unexpected given the way India have pushed Sri Lanka to the brink in all but one game – a Twenty20 – played in the limited-overs leg of the tour. But now, with the home team missing two match-winners, a hurtingSri Lanka have a realistic chance of leveling the series.

This will be the first time since MS Dhoni’s debut in 2004 that India play an ODI without him and Yuvraj Singh. Dhoni has often said that missing Yuvraj is a big blow, so how India cope with the loss of their captain and best batsman in ODIs in addition to Yuvraj will be crucial.

The pitch, one that’s expected to play slow and low in the latter half, will favour India’s spinners who found rhythm and confidence in Cuttack. Chilly temperatures, the dew factor and a slow-paced track mean that the bowlers will need to produce another special performance. With bitter cold and early morning fog expected to have a telling impact in Delhi, the venue for the fifth match, India will be keen to wrap up the series here.

Pitch and conditions: Kolkata’s Eden Gardens is set to host an ODI after nearly three years. It last hosted an ODI in February 2007, when Sri Lanka toured India for a short series before the World Cup. The dew factor is expected to play a large role and with a 2.30pm start, and the sun setting fairly early, the teams could have some slippery conditions while fielding under lights.

Stats and trivia:
* The highest ODI total at the Eden Gardens is Sri Lanka’s 309 in 49.4 overs against Pakistan in 1997.
* Head-to-head in Kolkata, India and Sri Lanka have each won and lost a game, with the third being ruined by February rain.
* The largest margin of victory in an ODI at this venue is India’s 102-run win over West Indies in in 1993.

Team Lineups:
India: Virender Sehwag (Capt.), Sachin Tendulkar, Gautam Gambhir, Suresh Raina, Ravindra Jadeja, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Harbhajan Singh, Zaheer Khan, Praveen Kumar, Ashish Nehra, Pragyan Ojha, Ishant Sharma, Sudeep Tyagi and Virat Kohli.

Sri Lanka: Kumar Sangakkara (Capt.,wk), Tillakaratne Dilshan, Sanath Jayasuriya, Mahela Jayawardene, Thilina Kandamby, Chamara Kapugedera, Nuwan Kulasekara, Lasith Malinga, Ajantha Mendis, Thilan Samaraweera, Upul Tharanga, Chanaka Welegedara, Muthumudalige Pushpakumara, Suraj Randiv and Thissara Perera.

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It simply looks like the Sri Lankans have bought all the luck in this year which lends its hand in accepting the reward for their victory against India. The 2nd match between Cricket India and Cricket Sri Lanka, at Dhaka on the 5th of January was one of the remarkable matches for the Sri Lankans with Thilan Samaraweera bashing 105 runs against 106 balls and 11 ‘4s’. The toss was won by SL and they decided on fielding. With the absence of Sachin Tendulkar, India scored 279 with loss of 9 wickets completing 50 overs. It was unexpected to have Gambhir out with just 8 runs before the end of 3rd wicket.  The poor opening led to the disappointment in the most of the Indians who were watching the cricket. Our Viru wasn’t enough lucky too as he had to drop out when he had just 3 more runs to score to make it half the century. It was a sensational match for Welegedara who took most of the wicket (5 wickets) from the Indian team. Sri Lanka proved their luck by overtaking the Indian team by scoring 283/5 in 48 ovs. They won by 5 wickets.

Samaraweera who was awarded the MOM: “I enjoyed my innings because of the dew it was easier. Perera batted really well in the end. I thought I had to bat till the 44th over and in these conditions 30 balls can get you 60 runs. Because Mahela is not there, I had to bat at 4 and yesterday’s innings gave me a lot of confidence”.

The luck showered on cricket India in the 5th match between India and Sri Lanka held on January 10, 2010 as India won the match with 8 wickets while Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat. It was 213/10 in 46.1 ovs for the Sri Lankans while India scored 214/2 in 32.4 ovs. It would have been one of the best and an easy match for cricket India for having the first 4 batsmen play and beat the Sri Lankans. Dinesh Karthik however got little unlucky for not touching his half century.  He missed it by just 2 runs! Kohli and Gambhir hit sensational runs of 71 while Yuvraj ended the match with 8 runs not being out. Zaheer Khan was awarded the MOM.

All that Dhoni had to say about the match when he was questioned was ‘’this was one of the best fielding sides in the park in the last 12 months. Zak bowled well superbly, supported decently by Tyagi and Sree. Mishy varied his pace really well and was rewarded well. It’s always important to get off to a good start, and Dinesh and Gauti did just that. Overall very happy with the effort, with Virat’s innings being the icing on the cake’’.

Sangakkara: We had to learn something bowling 2nd, but unfortunately things didn’t go well today. We lost wickets at regular intervals, but thankfully it wasn’t the finals. We didn’t really have a target in mind, and the batting effort wasn’t nothing much to speak about.

After the teams shared the equal victory, the people of Dhaka might have been in a real fix as to who will take away the IDEA cup in the match that was held on the 13th January 2010 at Dhaka. It wasn’t a good start again for the Indians in their finals against Sri Lanka. Sehwag again missed out on scoring hit 50’s. However it was Suresh Raina who got in all the scores to India, without which on the day, wouldn’t have been even possible for the Cricket Indian team to cross their 200. India scored 245/10 in 48.2 ovs while Sri Lanka took away the pride by hitting 249/6 in 48.3 ovs. It was a great 50 for Kumar Sangakkara. Nuwan Kulasekara was the MOM while Sri Lanka won the Finals by 4 wickets.

Kumar Sangakkara awarded the Man of the Series for his outstanding run with the bat he gets a Tata Grande MK2 SUV.

Chanaka Welegedara is the highest wicket taker of the tournament with 8 wickets.

Virat Kohli gets the award for being the highest run scorer in the series (275 runs)

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Bangladesh vs Sri Lanka 1st ODI Tri Series Match Live Picks at Online Betting: The first match between is going to start on today i.e. 04 Jan 2010. The stage is all set for the India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh ODI Tri Series 2010. Today, January 4, 2010, Sri Lanka takes on Bangladesh in the first ODI of the tri series. The tournament starts from January 4 and the final will be played on January 13. Each team will play two matches with the opponents and all the matches are day night affairs and will be played at the Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur, Bangladesh. The matches will start at 2pm Indian standard time (IST) and the list of channels which will be telecasting the matches is mentioned below:

Australia — Network Ten (Live)
Canada — Asian Television Network -ATN (Live)
Europe — British Eurosport on Sky Digital and Virgin Media (Live)(including France, Denmark, Algeria, Sweden, Austria, Finland, Monaco, Cyprus and Russia)
New Zealand – Sky TV
Pakistan — GEO Sports, Ten Sports
India – Star Sports, ESPN channel
Middle East — Arab Digital Distribution (Live) in UAE, Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Sudan and Libya
South Africa — Supersport (Live)
Sri Lanka – Rupavahini
United Kingdom — British Eurosport on Sky Digital
United States — Willow TV (Live)

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Sri Lanka will be led by Sangakkara who is hopeful of performing well, even without Muralidharan, Fernando (injured), Lasith Malinga, Ajantha Mendis (dropped) However, they have new youngsters who have shown signs on promise in the recent odi series against India. Sri Lanka has slipped to number 7 in the ODI ranking and they need to perform well if they want to move up the ladder.

The dew factor would come into play and the team winning the toss will want to field first.

Bangladesh’s fast bowler Mashrafe Mortaza will not be playing today’s match due to a shoulder injury. Still Bangladesh is very much capable of beating the weakened Sri Lankan team as their confidence would be high with the return of players who were involved in the IPL.
India are the favorites to win the tri series but fielding and bowling would be a major concern for them. India will play its first ODI against Sri Lanka on January 5, Wednesday.

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