After two low-scoring games in Dambulla, the teams move to three straight day-night
contests at the Premadasa, and the statistics suggest what happens in the rest of the
series could lie in the starts given by the top-order batsmen. In 60 day-night games,
Nos 1-3 average 35.78 per wicket, that figure falling to 29.84 for the next three in the
line-up. With the advent of Powerplays teams pack their top order with their most
instinctive - and destructive - stroke players. Unlike India, who have major injury woes
and are searching for rhythm, Sri Lanka are settled, with Jayasuriya and Kumar Sangakkara
in their top three.
Yuvraj Singh has been cleared of breaching the ICC Code of Conduct by the match referee Chris Broad at a hearing after the second ODI against Sri Lanka in Colombo.
Yuvraj had been charged under Level 1.3 of the code, which refers to “showing dissent at an umpire’s decision”. He had been adjudged lbw off Nuwan Kulasekara when on 66; the ball was going on to hit the stumps but Yuvraj had got a big inside edge onto the pads which the umpire had failed to spot. He waited at the crease for a few seconds on receiving the decision, before trudging of
Match to start at 14:30 IST.
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Match scheduled to begin at 10:00 local time (04:30 GMT)
3rd ODI v Sri Lanka at Colombo (RPS) - Feb 3, 2009 (14:30 local, 09:00 GMT)
4th ODI v Sri Lanka at Colombo (RPS) - Feb 5, 2009 (14:30 local, 09:00 GMT)
5th ODI v Sri Lanka at Colombo (SSC) - Feb 8, 2009 (10:00 local, 04:30 GMT)
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GENERAL KNOWLEDGE : KNOW ABOUT INDIAN CRICKET !! < for live matches CLICK HERE >
The Indian cricket team is the national cricket team of India. Governed by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), the richest cricket board in the world,[1] it is a full member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) with Test and One Day International status.
Though cricket was introduced to India by European merchant sailors in the 18th-century and the first cricket club in India was established in Calcutta in 1792, India's national cricket team didn't play their first Test match until 25 June 1932 at Lord's.[2] They became the sixth team to be granted Test cricket status.[3] As of October 21, 2008, the Indian team has played 423 Test matches, winning 22.69%, losing 32.15% and drawing 44.91% of its games, with also 1 tied match (0.24%).[4] India has a relatively better record in One Day Internationals, winning over 50% of matches played. The team is currently ranked by the ICC third in Test cricket and third in One Day Internationals.[5] As of October 2008, Mahendra Singh Dhoni serves as the captain of the Indian cricket team in all forms of the game.[6]
Traditionally much stronger at home than abroad, India proved weaker than Australia and England, winning only 35 of the 196 test matches they played in their first fifty years.[7] The team, however, gained strength near the end of the 1970s with the emergence of players such as Sunil Gavaskar, Kapil Dev and the Indian spin quartet. The Indian team has continued to be highly ranked since then in Test and limited overs cricket. It won the Cricket World Cup in 1983 and was runners-up in 2003. It also won the inaugural World Twenty20 in 2007. The current team contains many of the world's leading players, including Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid, who hold numerous cricketing world records.
INDIAN TEAM COLOUR:
When playing one-day cricket, the Indian cricket team has in recent years worn a sky blue shirt and pants. At present, the shirt also contains vertical band on the right side with a orange and white colors and the name of their main sponsor, Sahara. The one-day cap is also sky blue with the BCCI logo on the front. The name of the player is printed in yellow at the back.
With the advent of the World Series Cup in the 1970s, each team was to don a primary and secondary colour on their uniforms. The Indian team elected to wear light-blue as their primary colour and yellow as their secondary colour. Even during the 1999 Cricket World Cup the secondary colour on the Indian cricket team's clothing has been yellow. However, this has since been removed and replaced with the tricolour. However, in the past the Indian ODI outfits were changed to different shades of blue, mostly darker than the current, and the team donned dark blue during 1992, the current sky blue colour is more similar to that worn in the World Series Cup.
When playing first-class cricket, in addition to their cricket whites, Indian fielders sometimes wear a sunhat, which is dark blue and has a wide brim, with the BCCI logo in the middle of the front of the hat. Helmets are coloured similarly. Some players sport the Indian flag on their helmet. The current kit sponsor for the Indian team is Nike, Inc.
NATIONAL AWARDS:
Sachin Tendulkar, who began playing for India as a 16-year-old in 1989 and has since become the most prolific run-scorer in the history of both Test and ODI cricket, is easily the batsman with the most national achievements. He holds the record of most appearances in both Tests and ODIs, most runs in both Tests and ODIs and most centuries in Tests and ODIs. The highest score by an Indian is the 319 scored by Virender Sehwag in Chennai. It is the second triple century in Test cricket by an Indian, the first being a 309 also made by Sehwag although against Pakistan. The team's highest ever score was a 705/7 against Australia in Sydney, 2004, while its lowest was 42 against England in 1974. In ODIs, the team's highest is 413/5 against Bermuda in the 2007 Cricket World Cup. In the same match, India set a world record of the highest winning margin of 257 runs in an ODI match.
India also has had some very strong bowling figures, with spin bowler Anil Kumble being a member of the elite group of 3 bowlers who have taken 600 Test wickets. In 1999, Anil Kumble emulated Jim Laker to become the second bowler to take all ten wickets in a Test match innings when he took 10 wickets for 74 runs against Pakistan at the Feroz Shah Kotla in Delhi.
Many of the Indian cricket team's records are also world records, for example Sachin Tendulkar's century tally (in Tests and ODIs) and run tally (also in both Tests and ODIs). Mahendra Singh Dhoni's 183 not out against Sri Lanka in 2005 is the world record score by a wicketkeeper in ODIs. The Indian cricket team also holds the record sequence of 17 successful run-chases in ODIs,[32] which ended in a dramatic match against the West Indies in May 2006, which India lost by just 1 run.
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