India starts year 2010 with a loss!

i didnt watch da entire match, but heard frm my friend dat a free-hit was awarded to lankas for a full-toss no ball. Is dat true?

Dhoni shud have been much quicker in scoring runs today..his strike-rate was 52.85.. Yuvi came at da sme pressure situation of 2 quick wickets. But, his strike-rate was around 88. I donno why dhoni doesnt try for big shots even he is capable of.

Cricket is a fickle game. Still we all love this sport. Due to its fickleness, we can very safely compare it with life. As nothing is sure in life, so is for cricket. The 11 players, whom we admire so much, are not super-humans. There were times when Sachin, Vishwanathan Anand, Michael Schumacher, Roger Federar, David Beckam all were made to look humans at some point of their career. Though we all agree that cricket is a fickle game, still there have been instances where players from other sports too have lost their matches at important phases in their career. Coming back to cricket, losing a match here or there does surely not mean that a certain team is going downhill. The same has happened with India. India who seemed so unbeatable just a few days ago lost the very first match of the year against the same opponents. They were made to look too ordinary and excuses of all kinds propped up. The due factor seemed to be most appropriate reason to hide behind. However, one thing should be admitted and it is this that Sri Lanka completely outplayed India and take a sweet sweet revenge. This match was important to India, as they could have topped the list of even the ODIs. But that was not to be by winning only one match, though. India needed to win the other matches too. But the beginning of this series was important for India. Now that they have begun on a losing note, even a win in the tri-series will not assure India of top spot. The batsmen did do their job and ultimately the score of 279 was just not enough. And as usual the bowling is still a headache. A lot many things need to be looked into now, especially for captain M S Dhoni and see to it as what went wrong. India plays Bangladesh in the next of their fixtures and need to win the match to keep themselves alive in the series.

Yes!! That was terrible. This match was like "India is gone as Sehwag is gone".It was a real bad day for the bowlers.Srilanka got one century holder..I was not so glued to the match today,but it was not at all so interesting.

Indian is struggling with the bowling performance as they are not able to defend any kind of score against the sri lanka earlier in the odi series Sri lanka manage to reach 412 runs in the second innings in INDIA due to poor bowling and fielding efforts of the Indian team

srilankans won with a younger side , no lights of dilshan,mahela,sanath,malinga,mendis .... but still went on winning ,thats a positive sign for srilankan cricket, i love to see them play