Yesterday on 15th of November 2009 Indian master blaster Sachin Tendulkar completed 20 years of International Cricket and he became the first Indian to achieve the feat. We all wishes him best of luck for his career and we pray from God that he give us many more moment of pride.
Today the first test of the three match series begin at Sardar Patel Stadium, Motera, Ahmedabad. Lankan team is very keen to win the test match so that they can create the history. Lankan team has so far never won a test match in India.
Indian skipper Mahender Singh Dhoni won the toss and elected to bat first, but Welegedara gave him some trouble at the very beginning by dismissing both the openers Gambhir and Sehwag along with the prized wicket of Sachin Tendulkar. Very Very Special Laxman too did not stand for much. He was dismissed by Prasad.
Brave performances by Rahul Dravid along with Yuvraj Singh and skipper Dhoni brought India to a great position at the end of the day one play. 385 at the end of the day one, while Dravid is still batting at 177 clearly tells that team India has now upper hand against Sri Lanka. Tomorrow if Dravid can contribute a bit while others will just need to give him company at the middle, then Sri Lanka will really feel it difficult to stop them before 500 runs mark. Once 500 runs are on the board for the first innings, team India will surely won the match.
Score at the Stumps of the First Day: India: 385/6 (90 Overs)
Rahul Dravid 177* (251 Balls, 26 Fours, and 1 Six)
Harbhajan Singh 2* (11 Balls)
Mahender Singh Dhoni 110 (159 Balls, 10 Fours, 1 Six)
Yuvraj Singh 68 (93 Balls, 13 Fours)
Gautam Gambhir 1 (10 Balls)
Virender Sehwag 16 (11 Balls, 3 Fours)
Sachin Tendulkar 4 (3 Balls, 1 Fours)
VVS Laxman 0 (4 Balls)
Extras 67 (B 2, LB 2, NB 2, W 1)
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