India, Sri Lanka gear up for Twenty20 Series
After becoming the No. 1 team in test cricket, Team India is ready to face Sri Lanka in the first game of the two-match Twenty20 series in Nagpur today. The confidence of Team India is on an all-time high after their resounding victory in the recently-concluded test series against Sri Lanka.
Team India will have a set of new players in T20, as Zaheer Khan and Harbhajan Singh have been rested. The top guns, Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman are not part of Twenty20 team. Youngsters Ashok Dinda and R Ashwin are the new faces in India's Twenty20 team. The match will begin at 5:30 PM.
Team India: MS Dhoni, Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Yuvraj Singh, Suresh Raina, Rohit Sharma, Dinesh Karthik, Yusuf Pathan, R Ashwin, Ishant Sharma, Ashish Nehra, S Sreesanth, Ashok Dinda, Sudeep Tyagi, and Pragyan Ojha.
Sri Lanka: Kumar Sangakkara, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Chinthaka Jayasinghe, Sanath Jayasuriya, Mahela Jayawardene, Chamara Kapugedara, Nuwan Kulasekara, Lasith Malinga, Angelo Mathews, Ajantha Mendis, Muttiah Muralitharan, Muthumudalige Pushpakumara, Dilhara Fernando, Kaushalya Weeraratne, Chanaka Welegedara.