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The 1st T20 between India vs SriLanka will be played in Nagpur on Wednesday, Dec 9th, 2009. Start time 17-30 (12.00GMT). Watch Live Streaming and Live Scores.
This is only the 2nd T20 to be played In India.
Both the teams enter into the 2 Twenty20 matches with a loosing streak, India have lost their past 3 matches and Srilanka have lost 4 in a row.
The Indian players are stars in their respective IPL teams but their Results have been ordinary when playing together, in past nine T20’s , they have lost six and won only three.
Sri Lanka, on the other hand, had a terrific World Twenty20 and were unbeaten until the final, which they lost to Pakistan.
India have rested Zaheer Khan and Harbhajan Singh from the Twenty20.
Srilankan spinner Muralitharan has injured his fingers while practising during the third Test and is likely to be rested.
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The possible teams are as follows
India (possible): 1 Gautam Gambhir, 2 Virender Sehwag, 3 Suresh Rains, 4 Yuvraj Singh, 5 MS Dhoni (capt & wk), 6 Rohit Sharma, 7 Yusuf Pathan, 8 Pragyan Ojha, 9 Sreesanth, 10 Ishant Sharma, 11 Ashish Nehra.
Sri Lanka (possible): 1 Tillakaratne Dilshan, 2 Sanath Jayasuriya, 3 Kumar Sangakkara (capt & wk), 4 Mahela Jayawardene, 5 Chamara Kapugedera, 6 Angelo Mathews, 7 Kaushalya Weeraratne, 8 Nuwan Kulasekara, 9 Ajantha Mendis, 10 Lasith Malinga, 11 Chanaka Welegedara.
Pitch and conditions
The pitch is good for batting and is the same on which India scored 354 in an ODI against Australia in October so expect more runs.
“It’s a late evening start. We may see dew come into effect,” MS Dhoni said. “But by the time dew comes in the game may be over. It won’t be that big a factor. Overall it [pitch] will be good for batting, but in Twenty20 its very tough to predict. All of a sudden you look to go aggressive and lose quite a few wickets at quick intervals and you are not able to get big runs.”
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