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Tour Match: TBA v Indians at Colombo (RPS) on Aug 6-8, 2015
(10:00 local | 04:30 GMT)

Wed Aug 12 - Sun Aug 16 10:00 local (04:30 GMT | 05:30 BST)
1st Test
Galle International Stadium

Thu Aug 20 - Mon Aug 24 10:00 local (04:30 GMT | 05:30 BST)
2nd Test
P Sara Oval, Colombo

Fri Aug 28 - Tue Sep 1 10:00 local (04:30 GMT | 05:30 BST)
3rd Test
Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo

Squad: Virat Kohli (capt), Varun Aaron, R Ashwin, Shikhar Dhawan, Harbhajan Singh, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane, Wriddhiman Saha, Ishant Sharma, Amit Mishra, Rohit Sharma, M Vijay, Umesh Yadav, KL Rahul

http://www.espncricinfo.com/sri-lanka-v ... 02433.html

Bit of a collapse for India against an unfamiliar attack in the warm up. No runs for Kohli. India could end up being ranked seventh at the end of this series.

A century for Rahane, and runs for Dhawan, 40s from Rahul and Pujara, but not much else....

That said, SL are in a bit of a decline, with Sanga and Mahela hanging up their hats, so....

Squad: Angelo Mathews (capt), Lahiru Thirimanne, Kaushal Silva, Dimuth Karunaratne, Kumar Sangakkara, Dinesh Chandimal, Upul Tharanga, Jehan Mubarak, Kusal Perera, Rangana Herath, Dilruwan Perera, Tharindu Kaushal, Nuwan Pradeep, Dhammika Prasad, Vishwa Fernando, Dushmantha Chameera (subject to fitness)

mikesiva wrote:A century for Rahane, and runs for Dhawan, 40s from Rahul and Pujara, but not much else....

That said, SL are in a bit of a decline, with Sanga and Mahela hanging up their hats, so....

So are India.

Arthur Crabtree wrote:

mikesiva wrote:A century for Rahane, and runs for Dhawan, 40s from Rahul and Pujara, but not much else....

That said, SL are in a bit of a decline, with Sanga and Mahela hanging up their hats, so....

So are India.

weirdly I think india will be on the up.
Shanky will attack me but think all the young/inexperinaced player will be better players after the tough away tours last year in SA, NZ, Eng and Australia.
Plus vast majority of the cricket in the next 2 years is at subcontinent.

Big loss for india in the first test.
Vijay out of the first test.

Has a good record over the past two years. He'd be in my current world XI.

Averages for openers over last two years.

http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine ... pe=batting

Murali is injured

Lokesh
Shikhar
Chet
Virat
Ajinkya
Saha
Ashwin
Mishra
Ishant
Umesh
Varun

bit disappointing this isn't being shown on SKY

maybe just me but we don't seem to get as many bilateral series where England isn't involved as we did a few years ago

rich1uk wrote:bit disappointing this isn't being shown on SKY

maybe just me but we don't seem to get as many bilateral series where England isn't involved as we did a few years ago

i cant remember many series in sri lanka being covered

we have always had plenty from india, australia, south africa, new zealand and west indies but never sri lanka

Sky never covered cricket from Sri Lanka and Pakistan mainly because sky kind of as a agreement with the Asian channel.
By the way Sony Sab got free 1 hour highlights in the evening.

But yes sky now shows less their loss bangadesh and Zimbabwe In recent times.

Don't really show much cricket from nz either even though they got rights.

SL recovering after being in a bit of trouble.

Five for Ashwin.

SL 155/7.