Story Team India- Men in Blue's Diary||Indian Tour to New Zealand-//Australia VS India, First Innings//-

[Prithvi]

Indian Squad Announcement for series against Sri Lanka.
Well, Indian squad for the test series against Sri Lanka was announced.
Indian selectors expressed their happiness when Zaheer Khan was back in the side.
Badrinath was given a chance here to prove himself, Pragyan Ojha was the one man, whom people wanted to see in whites, which came true.
They read out the 15 man squad.

MS Dhoni (Captain)
Subramaniam Badrinath
Rahul Dravid
Gautam Gambhir
Harbhajan Singh
Zaheer Khan
VVS Laxman
Amit Mishra
Pragyan Ojha
Virender Sehwag
Ishant Sharma
Sreesanth
Sachin Tendulkar
Murali Vijay
Yuvraj Singh

Sri Lankans were yet to announce their 16 man squad.

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[Amar791849]

All the best men in blue -team india

 

[rahuldravidfan]

India, FTW. Great thread Binnu

 

[Prithvi]

Announcement of Sri Lankan Test Squad.
Sri Lankan selectors did announce the 16 man squad for the test series against India. Selectors said that replacing Vaas was bit troublesome but still they found a man, "Chanaka Welegedara", a new one to have comforts of International cricket.
Selectors read out the squad:

Kumar Sangakkara (Captain)
Tillakaratne Dilshan
Dilhara Fernando
Rangana Herath
Mahela Jayawardene
Prasanna Jayawardene
Thilina Kandamby
Nuwan Kulasekara
Angelo Mathews
Ajantha Mendis
Muttiah Muralitharan
Tharanga Paranavitana
Dammika Prasad
Thilan Samaraweera
Kaushal Silva
Chanaka Welegedara

They said that all the passports and visas were ready. And They were to get reunion and then they are all set to fly to India.
Mahela Jayawardena said that he was on strong mission of defeating India in India. "We din't do it till now, we need to do it for Lankan Respect" Mahela Added.
Sanga even was on same mission.
Muralidharan Said that the Indian tour will be his last tour as he's announcing retirement after the series against India (All the three formats).


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[Aditya]

Strong Sri Lankan side although i feel they will be struggling in the opening pair. They need a nice batsmen as a opener who has experience as well as good technique hope their opener perform well.

 

[AshesXII]

very nice precentation looking forward to the SL series

 

[yashwanth kumar]

Superb updates good selection's by BCCI selectors

yashwanth kumar added 12 Minutes and 46 Seconds later...

Sri lanka surely miss out S. jaysurya & his experience ...............

@ Dhoni : are you 100% sure that you were called for producing tax paid receipts :confused: :siren and Hope you don't ride any vehicle until you get a duplicate of your Driving licence since Sri Lankan lions have challenged that they are going to win a series and make a history

 

[WubbaLubbaDubDub]

Good Squads... KUTGW...

Seems a realistic Squad..

 

[AbhishekS]

The middle order looks pretty strong of the Lankans.
But the opening combo of India is so strong that I can simply take the game away from anyone.

 

[CG123]

Both squads look evenly balanced, I'm looking forward to a closely fought test series.

 

[WubbaLubbaDubDub]

haha... I prepared it just now and My dad asked whether they really changed without SAHARA

Binnu added 8 Minutes and 28 Seconds later...

Dhoni Cleared off Income Tax department.
Well, Indian skipper was to his home for IT department issues which he cleared and arrived at Hyderabad for Kit Changing function.
According to reports, Mahi was called for having a ride in his home and show them that he's paying tax for his income, which he show.
MS about this said that they actually called me for producing tax paid receipts, not for putting me behind the bars:laugh. Thank god, before leaving for the tour against Australia, I cleared all the taxes. And of course, I have my driving license lost, I already requested them for another copy of it.
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This is the best
Update and i like reading it again and again

Good Work Binnu..

:rtfl:rtfl:rtfl

 

[Prithvi]

Sri Lanka Touch India.

Well, the Sri Lankan Test Squad landed at Trivunanthapuram safely when their flight got diverted due to bad weather at Chennai. They were scheduled to land at Chennai where as the weather took them to Trivandrum.
The Sri Lankans were not allowed to get down the flight even after landing at Trivandrum keeping the security reasons in mind. They finally got down off the flight after 13 hours, they landed.
Muttaih Muralidharan was bit injured and was sure of not playing first two longer formats of the game (a practice game and a Test match against India)
Skipper Kumara Sangakkara spoke to media. In brief, he was aiming to win a test match in India against India. He even told winning a series is not possible without winning a match.
On Muralidharan, he said," All I can do is make him play all the three tests, if he's willing to play. Its Really sad which every cricketer on this globe feels as celebrating Retirement is something, which comes once in a lifetime. He can celebrating retirement from IPL etc etc but celebrating retirement from which, he got his fame is different when compared to Retirement from a local domestic team."
Mahela Jayawardena was to miss the practice game as of his personal problems.

Overall, Srilankan squad was looking bit weak, after Murali's Injury and Mahela's personal life for the practice game.

Sanath Jayasuriya even came up with the test squad as his family was in a holiday in India.

Telecasting Rights:
BCCI did appoint PCtv as the official broadcaster of all cricket matches (Including Domestic circuit and IPL) taking place in India for life time for total sum of 100 million vCash.
Lots of new commentators like Yashwant Kumar, Callum Gray, Rahulkhush were appointed and a brand new journalist (rahuldravidfan) even was appointed.

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[WubbaLubbaDubDub]

Nice Update.. Looking for the series

And me a commentator.. Ready for my new Job Binnu

 

[Prithvi]

But no vCash:laugh

 

[rahuldravidfan]

...and a brand new journalist (rahuldravidfan) even was appointed.

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Thank you, Binnu