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Thumping 100th Victory for India.

They fully deserve it. An innings and 144 run victory could be the sweetest one.

Batsmen should be given credit for this win. Bowlers did their bit, but its completely batsmen who turned this game on for India.

Comeback hero Srisanth fully deserves the man of the match award.

All in all, nice victory ahead of last test in Mumbai.

Good Play by India. Except the anti climax.

India's batting collapse was really not good but the damage for Srilanka has been done. Pitch started turning and bouncing. Herath's last spell spoke about this. His 5 wicket haul is the good news for Indian spinners.

The wall once again played like the wall. Nothing much to say about. Yuvi and Laxman given them self some more batting practice and helped them selves with another half centuries.

Interesting day's play ahead on day 3. Let us watch out.

Hmmmmm..........

Just another day of Cricket. Nothing exciting except India's fight back. The loss of Rahul Dravid must be disappointing for Dhoni and Co. But, thats how it goes.

Jayawardane & Jayawardane made batting look so easy on a dry pitch. But, the wicket of Jayawardane would have given some confidence to Amit mishra at last and that confidence helped him in his batting as night watchman too.

Sehwag once again disappointed all. On a perfect batting track he lost a golden opportunity to add another test century to his profile which is for the taking. He should again get into the habit of making big scores. He should not satisfy with meager half centuries.

Anyhow, it is a real "test" for Indian batsmen resiliency and i am hoping to see them defend the match with success.

Lets keep our fingures crossed.

See you tommorrow.

Total Dominance by SriLanka. Mahela Jayawardane, SriLanka's Mr.Wall has palyed sorry, playing another beautiful innings.

Agreed that, the pitch is now batting paradise, even then, the determination, concentration and command are simply superb. Probably, Yuvraj should take one or two leafs out of this innings and should learn how to play long long innings.

Another Jayawardane also was giving good support to Mahela. Ishanth and Zaheer bowled their heart out there, but without result. Lack of support from Bhajji and Mishra on a turning track made them helpless.

All in all, its a magnificient performance by Sri Lanka.

Congratulations to them.

If a team loses its first 5 wickets in the first 10 overs of the match, there are absolutely no hopes to recover. The same has happend in Guhathi One day International.

Batsman know that, the conditions are bowling friendly. All the batsman have tonns of experience. Even after that, they palyed like school kids in this match. A team which is No.2 in world rankings, should not have played the match like this that too in a must win situation.

The close defeats earlier in the series have costed India the series. This is one of the typical bad day, but after saying that, the day is not too bad to be 27/5 in first 10 overs.

Praveen Kumar is sensational batting star in this series. He is turning out to be very useful number 9 batsman. Much more 50s are awaited from his bat. He really made his much hyped batting stars ashamed.

There is nothing great in Ponting's captaincy. He just have won some crucial tosses like in Hyderabad. One life time performance of a bowler has turned it off for India for which, India should blame it self.

I really dont understand the reason why Raina and Yuvraj are still in the team. As long as the Ego continues, Yuvraj will suffer a lot. Raina should think better than T-20 format. Veeru's lack of touch also proved costly for India.

All in all today is just another bad day which has costed India the series. But this series has helped One Day cricket to survive for atleast another 2 years as it is.

Dhoni must blame himslef rather than anybody for this series defeat.

The following are the crucial errors committed by him by which India has lost the series.

1.Opting to bowl in Mohali after winning the toss. India has eventually lost the match on a batting paradise.
2. Opting to bat on a bowler friendly conditions in Guwahathi. Even though, its majorly batsmen mistake, Dhoni would have rather choosy.
3. Dhoni should have batted at No.3 in Mohali where Gambhir was not playing.
4. Ishanth sharma was coming back to the form, removing him and selecting Munaf was a big mistake.
5.He could not encourage batsman to play aggressively. Today's innings of Praveen Kumar must be an eye opener for him.
6. He should have controlled the emotions of Bhajji. He should have asked Bhajji to play according to the situation. In Hyderabad, his duck out has contributed to India's defeat.

What do you say readers ?

What a match ..........

What a thrilling encounter ...............

India might have lost ...........but Cricket was the true winner.

Batting Maestro unleashed. Vintage Scahin almost won the match for India single handedly. Praveen once again nearly won it for India.

So shame on Australia.........once again was nearly lost. This match reminded me the match where Australia could not defend 434 against South Africa.

Look at the way both teams have won. India made 354 in Nagpur on a batting surface and restricted Aussies to 255. Today, Australia made a similar score and nearly lost the match.

So shame on world champions. They must feel sad for their performance. I could not stop laughing imagining Ponting's face even though i was travelling during India's batting. My father was sending me SMS of the updates from India.

Just yesterday Ponting gave a statement "we have restricted Tendulkar". Today he would have understood that, no one can stop Tsunami. A runs tsunami.

Once again Hatts Off to India. Shame on Aussies that they nearly lost this match.

Hmmmmmmmm...............

They almost lost it. But, won it.

I should say that, its a good, decent performance by Aussies in the fielding and with the ball. They have not missed even a single chance. The brilliance of Ponting was clearly seen in the run out of Yuvraj.

For me, its the turning point of the match.

When Sehwag started the innings, it never looked like a impossible total but once Sehwag was out, it was an uphill task.

Virat Kohli never looked like a number 3 player, but Dhoni would have been right option at that point. Sachin was too slow yet again and he was out again, when he was catching up with the momentum. Unfortunately, its a bad decision too from the Umpire.

But, the game really slowed up after the dismissal of Yuvraj and Dhoni was too slow. Raina should have played little aggressively to over come the pressure of wickets. The margin is only 24 runs and still 20 + deliveries in hand. It was get able, if a batsman would have played till the  end, but unfortunately it was not the case.

Earlier, India did very well to restrict Aussies for 250, when they looked like going towards 300 very easily. Jadeja looked good with ball in his hand. Yuvraj too.

But once again, Bhajji and PK were creating headache to Australia. Shane Watson was extremely lucky to take the catch of Bhajji. The ball just got sticked in to his hand.

But, in this series its good to see the fight from tail enders. It really indicates that, Australia has tough days ahead.