India vs Sri Lankan team comparison:India vs Sri Lanka Warm UP Match 2013 Live Streaming ICC Champions Trophy
India is the most powerful contender for CT’13. Two reasons for this 1st There batting average & 2nd the most important is Strike rate. There all top 6 batsmen are having best SR in the world and finishers too, They have some good gentle medium pace swing bowlers who always strike with new ball. Saffers is the next contender with talented youngsters..India have left out seasoned campaigners Virender Sehwag, Yuvraj Singh and Gautam Gambhir from their ICC Champions Trophy squad.But i feels even without the these players, skipper Mahendera Singh Dhoni has a strong side at his disposal.Dinesh Karthik earns a recall after a gap of almost three years, and Umesh Yadav returns from injury.
Shikhar Dhawan, who grabbed the headlines during the home Tests against Australia and has done well in the IPL since recovering from a hand injury, has made the 15. Allrounder Irfan Pathan, seamer Vinay Kumar and batsman M Vijay also make a comeback.Dhawan, Vijay, Virat Kohli, Suresh Raina and Rohit Sharma as specialist batsmen. Karthik will be the back-up keeper behind MS Dhoni – though he is capable of fitting into the XI as just a batsman as well.while the spin department has a mix in offspinner R Ashwin, left-armer Ravindra Jadeja and legspinner Amit Mishra.Given the conditions in England, India were expected to go in with a five-man pace attack, and that is what they have done: Irfan, Umesh, Vinay, Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Ishant Sharma complete the 15.
