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Banish Thoughts of Defeat in Tests and Concentrate on Twenty20 Series Wednesday 9th December, 2009 Banish thoughts of defeat in Tests and concentrate on Twenty20 series — Sanga Sri Lanka captain Kumar “The motivation is always there, but keeping duties to ensure a better bal- India, winners of the inaugural Sangakkara has urged his players to we need to start from scratch,” he said. ance in the team, has admitted he is con- World Twenty20 in South Africa two banish thoughts of their defeat in the Having reached the final of the World cerned with the bowling. years ago, have fared poorly in the Test series against India Twenty20, in England, in “Our bowling lacked penetration in shortest format of the game since then. and concentrate on the June this year, where they the Tests,” he added. They lost both matches in a series two-match Twenty20 eventually lost to “If you can’t tie a batsman down for away to New Zealand earlier this year series which begins in Pakistan, Sri Lanka are more than an over from one side, it and also failed to progress beyond the Nagpur today. “The considered a strong side in becomes very difficult to exert continu- first round in the World Twenty20 in Sangakkara’s side had the shortest format of the ous pressure,” he said. England. arrived in India hoping to motivation game. Off-spinner Muttiah Muralitharan India have three uncapped players in secure their first Test vic- Sri Lanka’s squad for has all but ruled himself out of the the side - off-spinner Ravichandran tory on Indian soil. is always the 20-over version of the Twenty20 games due to a finger injury Ashwin and medium-pacers Ashok Instead, the visitors lost game is vastly different sustained during a warm-up football Dinda and Sudeep Tyagi - to comple- the three-Test series 2-0, a there, but from the Test team with game in practice during the Test series. ment pacemen Ashish Nehra, defeat which saw them slip veteran Sanath Jayasuriya “Two ligaments are damaged in the Shanthakumaran Sreesanth and Ishant from second to fourth in expected to open the finger and it will take a few days to Sharma. the International Cricket we need to innings alongside recover,” Muralitharan said. Tickets for the match at the 45,000- Council’s Test rankings. Tillakaratne Dilshan. “I don’t think I will be fit for the capacity Vidarbha Cricket Association Sangakkara is now hop- start from Chamara Kapugedera is Twenty20s,” he said. Stadium were sold out within a couple ing to start afresh. also expected to return to The availability of paceman Lasith of days of going on sale. “We have to try and put scratch.” the middle order which Malinga should provide Sangakkara India have not lost an international at the Test series behind us,” also comprises the likes of with some relief, while the uncapped the VCA Stadium and Wednesday’s he said. Mahela Jayawardene, Muthumudalige Pushpakumara along game will be played on the same surface “We have a lot of hard Angelo Mathews and with Nuwan Kulasekara, Chanaka which saw India amass 349 in a one-day work to do all around to keep improving Sangakkara himself, all making for a Welegedara and spinner Ajantha international against Australia in and we have a good opportunity in these strong batting order. Mendis provides the skipper with October this year. (cricket365.com) two Twenty20 games. Sangakkara, who will take wicket- Kumar Sangakkara enough options. SA scraps February’s three-Tests series in India Schedule too crowded by IPL to find a slot for Test s, but ODI series will go ahead South Africa will not play any Tests in India on their tour in February, Cricket South Africa’s chief executive, Gerald Majola, has revealed. South Africa had been scheduled to play a full three-match series but it has emerged that the Tests have been can- celled and only a series of one-day internationals and Twenty20s will now take place. Majola said the decision to play only limited overs matches against India was made due to a packed calendar and also because the ongoing tour by England could not be rescheduled. “We could not reach an agreement on rescheduling the England series,” Majola said. “We also needed to have our Boxing Day and New Year Tests in place. Next year’s schedule is very crowded with the Indian Premier League and the World Twenty20 in the Caribbean. “So we agreed with the Board of Control for Cricket in India that next year’s tour would be ODIs only. “We will play the Tests at a later stage when it’s convenient for both countries,” he said. India, who overtook South Africa at the top of the International Cricket Council’s rankings for Test teams this week, are scheduled to play only two January Tests against Bangladesh until November 2010. (The Guardian) Bollinger escapes fine for flare-up Australian paceman Doug Bollinger was handed an official reprimand for dissent fol- lowing his appearance before ICC match ref- eree Chris Broad on Monday night. Bollinger reacted angrily when he had an emphatic lbw appeal refused on day four of the second Test against the West Indies in Adelaide. The left-armer bubbled over when Windies batsman Brendan Nash, on seven, did not offer a shot to an in-dipping delivery and was struck on the pads. Bollinger’s appeal took him to within a metre of Nash, and when refused by umpire Asad Rauf, the Australian paceman kicked the turf in disgust and was motioned to return to his bowling mark by his captain Ricky Ponting. Replays showed the delivery was on track to strike the stumps but Nash went on to make 24. Australia couldn’t refer the verdict to the third umpire, given Ponting had earlier used his two permitted challenges unsuccessfully. (AAP) Wednesday 9th December, 2009.
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