Raina and Dhoni have begun the repair
job, with Raina dancing down the wicket and lofting a sweetly-timed
6.India have dropped Sehwag and Dinda forthis match and given chance
to Ajinkya Rahane and Shami Ahmed.
Today is the most important and intersting match between arch-rivals as Pakistan have taken 2-0 lead in three-match ODI series India`s struggling cricketers will seek to restore some pride .
Indian skipper MS Dhoni has received much of the criticism in this series .
The pitch condition is very important role in deciding the result of the match.
Kotla's record is 'Bat' first
Going by the Kotla’s previous
record,toss will play a crucial role 'win the toss and bat' is usually
the advice handed out to every skipper.. Sehwag is playing on his
favorite ground and it is estimated that he will play well on this
ground.
Indian team will have to devise a
strategy to counter Pakistan players in both batting and bowling and
to win this match .Pakistan won the first two one day matches and is
eager to clean sweep the series.
The high pressure has been built on the
Indians who have been plagued by an inexplicable form slump of their
star batsmen while the limited and inexperienced bowling resources have
compounded the misery for the hosts who have now sunk to a new low with
the recent debacles.
Most of the Team India players are not in form.The bilateral series with Pakistan is being played after five years.
The hosts lost the first game in Chennai
by six wickets and the second in Kolkata by 85 runs to give their arch
foes their first series win on Indian soil since 2004-05.
Pakistan won 2nd One Day International
game at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata because Pakistan have never lost a
match at Eden gardens to the hosts except once to a foreign team.
Mahendra singh Dhoni will play third ODI
Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni was
rendered a doubtful starter for today's third and final One-dayer
against Pakistan due to a sore back.
He was actually asked about the absence
of middle-order batsman Yuvraj Singh at the training session and the
skipper said, "If at all somebody is doubtful, it's me. I have a sore
back and we have called Dinesh Karthik as back up.
"Since it was an optional practice
session, Yuvraj did not come," he said. Asked, who will lead the side
if he does not recover in time, Dhoni said, "Let's hope that I play.
We'll see ."
Teams:
India: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (c), Gautam
Gambhir, Ajinkya Rahane, Virat Kohli, Yuvraj Singh, Suresh Raina,
Ravindra Jadeja, R Ashwin, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Ishant Sharma, Shami
Ahmed.
Pakistan: Misbah-ul-Haq (c), Nasir
Jamshed, Mohammad Hafeez, Younis Khan, Shoaib Malik, Umar Akmal, Kamran
Akmal,Junaid Khan, Umar Gul, Saeed Ajmal, Mohammad Irfan.
The five ODI series with England is
going to begin in a few day and the selectors are going to observe the
performance of each individual player and select the squad for the
upcoming series. There is every chance that one or two players will be
dropped from the Indian team for the upcoming England series. The third
ODI will be very crucial for Sehwag, Rohit, Raina and Jadeja.
