INDIA NEED BIG WIN WITH GAIN EXTRA POINT............
India will aim to chase down a target at Adelaide Oval for the second time in three days after Sri Lanka won the toss and decided to bat. Conditions in Adelaide were hot and the competition was also heating up between the visiting teams with Australia all but assured of a place in the CB Series finals.
India made only one change to the team that lost to Australia on Sunday with the allrounder Praveen Kumar coming in for his first ODI of the tour and the second of his career. Sreesanth was left out and India could find no place for Virender Sehwag in the starting line-up.
Sri Lanka also made one alteration to the side that suffered a 63-run loss to Australia in Perth on Friday. Ishara Amerasinghe returns to the attack at the expense of Nuwan Kulasekera.
The match was to be played on the same pitch that Australia and India used on Sunday, when India fell 50 runs short of Australia's 203. The green tinge had disappeared, however, and Mahela Jayawardene was hopeful that it would slow down later in the evening and would favour spin.
India are searching for their first win over Sri Lanka in the CB Series after their first match in Brisbane was washed out and Sri Lanka secured a Duckworth-Lewis win in Canberra. One more victory for Australia will mean they are definitely into the finals so each match between the visiting teams now takes on greater importance.
India 1 Sachin Tendulkar, 2 Gautam Gambhir, 3 Irfan Pathan, 4 Rohit Sharma, 5 Mahendra Singh Dhoni (capt, wk), 6 Yuvraj Singh, 7 Robin Uthappa, 8 Praveen Kumar, 9 Harbhajan Singh, 10 Ishant Sharma, 11 Munaf Patel.
Sri Lanka 1 Sanath Jayasuriya, 2 Tillakaratne Dilshan, 3 Kumar Sangakkara (wk), 4 Mahela Jayawardene (capt), 5 Chamara Silva, 6 Chamara Kapugedera, 7 Farveez Maharoof, 8 Chaminda Vaas, 9 Ishara Amerasinghe, 10 Lasith Malinga, 11 Muttiah Muralitharan.
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