The 3rd test day 3 between India and Sri Lanka will take place at Mumbai on Dec 46th Dec - 2009. With both Vijay and Dravid batting solidly around Sehwag, Sri Lanka had forgotten what an edge looked like. In the 71st over, with Sehwag on 264, they finally saw one. Mathews bowled a slower one, and if you had seen how Sehwag had batted the whole day before that, like a religious believer you would say he hung his bat out and let the ball hit the edge so that it could go fine of third man for four. In the next over, Murali drew an edge that landed safe. In the next, Tillakaratne Dilshan got one that Mahela Jayawardene couldn't hang onto. It could be argued that no sane man would have been expecting an edge by then.
India vs Sri Lanka 3rd Test Day 3 Live Streaming
Sehwag did slow down after that edge and as stumps approached but as a parting shot he crashed Dilshan through covers for his 40th four, to go with seven sixes. That's when Dravid came in, and took the majority of the strike till close of play. A fair time, then, to acknowledge Vijay, who at some other time would have been the story of the day. But when Sehwag bats like he did, you feel sorry for the bowlers, put the other batsmen in the footnote, and move on.
India team
V Sehwag, M Vijay, R Dravid, SR Tendulkar, Yuvraj Singh, VVS Laxman, MS Dhoni*†, Harbhajan Singh, PP Ojha, Z Khan, S Sreesanth
Sri Lanka : TM Dilshan, NT Paranavitana, KC Sangakkara*, DPMD Jayawardene, TT Samaraweera, AD Mathews, HAPW Jayawardene†, HMRKB Herath, M Muralitharan, UWMBCA Welegedara, KMDN Kulasekara
Thursday, December 3, 2009
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