8th June - Group B - India v Sri Lanka

[James]

Thu Jun 8 (50 ovs) 10:30 local (09:30 GMT | 19:30 AEST | 19:00 ACST | 17:30 AWST)

Group B - India v Sri Lanka
Kennington Oval, London

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

According to CW poll, its 60-40 to India's favour

 

[OverratedSanity]

Would be pretty pathetic if we lost to this SL team.

Rohit to score his 3rd double today.

 

[harsh.ag]

Would be pretty pathetic if we lost to this SL team.

Rohit to score his 3rd double today.

Would be awesome. Throw this group wide open.

 

[CricAddict]

Need a third option in the poll as 'Rain'

 

[srbhkshk]

According to CW poll, its 60-40 to India's favour

80-20 imo.

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

Need a third option in the poll as 'Rain'

I was thinking the same

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

80-20 imo.

You are being generous

 

[Black_Warrior]

^We just saw number 8 beat number 1 yesterday. Cricket has thrown up bigger wonders.

 

[honestbharani]

I have been saying this in this sub-forum. I think this Sri Lankan side can surprise many people. Our team need to be extremely careful and ensure complacency does not kick on. We can easily be caught napping in this game.

 

[Black_Warrior]

I just don't see this team doing that. This team just seems far to professional to not take a match in a tournament seriously when officially they have not even qualified yet

 

[Ridhwa Sarkar]

thank u

 

[srbhkshk]

Rohit and Dhawan may be good openers, but I so miss Sehwag and Tendulkar with the kind of slow starts we get these days

 

[CricAddict]

Rohit and Dhawan may be good openers, but I so miss Sehwag and Tendulkar with the kind of slow starts we get these days

Tendulkar too often plays out the first few balls before going into God-mode.

 

[srbhkshk]

Tendulkar too often plays out the first few balls before going into God-mode.

He only really played slow for 3-4 overs though, occasionally Dhawan/Sharma just keep meandering along till one of them realizes it's already been 15 overs.

(I don't even remember the last time we got a 70/1 in 10 overs.)

 

[Contra]

Dhawan is so clutch in ICC events.

 

[mackembhoy]

India 320
Sri Lanka 207

 

[OverratedSanity]

Tendulkar too often plays out the first few balls before going into God-mode.

Depends on which version of Tendulkar you're talking about tbh

 

[Black_Warrior]

This is what I love about ODI cricket and something I miss in T20 cricket - the diversity of styles and approaches you can find. India has one of the slowest run rates at the start of the innings since CWC 2015 yet one of the most successful ODI sides in that period. There are just multiple ways of going about it. You can go the England way, you can go the India way. All the top sides have very different team compositions and make the best of their resources.

Sri Lanka on the other hand have the best run rate at the start, but are ranked number 7 in world cricket

 

[mackembhoy]

I seen loads questioned Sharma and Dhawan being included in the squad.

They'll be the front of the queue to priase them now. Back to back hundred partnerships.