India, Pakistan arrive in Delhi for 1st Test
Posted on Nov 19, 2007 at 17:49 | Updated Nov 20, 2007 at 09:40
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New Delhi: The Indian and Pakistani teams arrived in New Delhi on Monday for the first Test of the three-match series that starts at the Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium on November 22.
The other two Tests of the series are at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata (November 30-December 4) and M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore (December 8-12).
India won the just-concluded five-match One-Day series 3-2 and have a new skipper for the Tests in veteran leg-spinner Anil Kumble, who took 10 wickets in an innings against Pakistan at the Feroz Shah Kotla in 1999 to equal Jim Laker's world record.
But there isn't much good news for the ODI skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni, who might be forced to sit out of the Delhi Test.
Dhoni sustained an ankle injury while batting in the Jaipur One-Dayer. He went to Delhi's Apollo hospital on Monday for an examination.
Dhoni, though will in all likelihood be fit for the match but with a lot of cricket coming up over the next few weeks, the management may just decide against playing him in the Test, especially as a back-up wicket-keeper is available in Dinesh Karthik who will open the batting.
Meanwhile, with the winter setting in over north India, the Kotla pitch is likely to help the spinners and would not have much bounce due to the haze.
The two teams have contrasting bowling attacks.
While India have named three spinners – Kumble, Harbhajan Singh and Murali Kartik – in the Test team, Pakistan have named just one front line spinner in leggie Danish Kaneria.
India have a good Test record at the ground winning nine out of the 28 matches played at the venue. Against Pakistan, the hosts have won two and drawn two.
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Posted By Surya
VVS doesn\''t have (A) Sponsors (B) Advertisements on media (C) Political backup (D) Finally, not from Bombay. Had he been
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Posted By Shivram
Jaffer and Karthik have proved themseleves as opener especialy in foreign soil very decently. Players like Boon, Shewag have proved
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Posted By Karthik
Sorry buddy
Combo wouldb
Jaffer
D.Karthik
Dravid
Sachin
Ganguly
yuvi
Dhoni(if fit)
Kumble
Bhajji
Zaheer
Sreesanth..
there is no test openers inur list
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Posted By Sai Bharadwaj
Kya India hain bhai..Laxman ko kyon kick marre mujhe tho samaj me nehein aara. The counties he played recently was
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Posted By Shashank Tripathi
I surely hope Dravid gets to play. My team includes:
- Tendulkar
- Gambhir / Ganguly / or S. Raina if
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