Srilanka in Finals

Srilanka made it to the finals with easy victory over pakistan and bangladesh, in all probability it should be Srilanka vs India Finals on Sunday.

On his 39th birthday Jayasurya made yet another hundred of just 55 balls and brought back memories of his hey days. Sangakarra scored his second hundred in as many days and its amazing that he also kept wickets after his hundred. Murali and the googly specialist Mendis bowled out bangladesh for a big victory.

Jayawardane's post match interview was so matured that Dhoni can learn a few things, afterall he is in his early stages of captaincy. He mentioned that the host teams always enjoy few things like schedule,crowd support etc and on a lighter side also said that he will make sure Pakistan plays back-to-back matches when Srilanka hosts the Asia Cup :-)

India for so long was dependent on spin bowling and even today if India has to win a Test it needs its spinner in Kumble to perform well. After the prolification of fast bowling in India, we have lost our own strength the spin bowling. We have not been able to produce world class spinners consistently, it has been too long since we had great spinners in Bedi,Chandra,Prassana and Venkatraghavan. After kumble its going to be tough task for India, as i dont see good spinners in the bench, Chawla seems to be good and needs constant encouragement to keep him going, i feel he should not be exposed to the ODI/T20 games. He is a traditional spinner with flight and loop and invite lot of hard hitting in the shorter version of the game but should do well in Test Cricket. I think its time the board and cricket management starts thinking of finding good young spinners for the future.