Since India lost its previous match against Pakistan. Most probably we can see few changes in the Indian Team. We can expect Pragyan Ojha replace Piyush Chawla who is expensive in previous match. RP Singh will replace Ishant Sharma who is not so productive in yesterday’s match.
Since Sri Lanka is already qualified to finals are likely to rest Sanath Jayasuriya, Chaminda Vaas and Muttiah Muralitharan as they did against UAE. We all hope India will go through finals.
Todays match is a must win game for Pakistan to stay in the Asia Cup 2008. For India, if it wins will go through final to join Sri Lanka. Pakistan had lost previuos both games against India and SriLanka so we can expect them to come back very hard against India. In indian side we can see IK Pathan playing this match after injury. The squads are below.
Hours of play: 15.30 start, First Session 15.30-19.00 Interval 1900-19.45, Second Session 19.45-23.15 IST
India have won the toss and decided to bat first
Shoaib Malik won’t be playing in this big game, he fell ill again in the fitness test today. Only 6 minutes into the test, he exhausted. In his absence, it would be Misbah Ul Haq leading the Pakistan side.
With yesterdays win over Pakistan, Srilanka is going into 9th match of the series to play against weakest Bangladesh. So far Bangldesh only beat UAE and lost against India and Srilanka. Lets see whether Bangladesh come back with good confident or lack in confident.