Indo-Lanka first Test starts today

Spinners hold the key on dry Chennai pitch

Ask any captain to name his team a day before the Test match and you can doubly be sure you will not get a positive reaction. The answers more or less will be in the negative with phrases like: "It all depends on the state of the pitch and conditions or, we will decide on the morning of the match or, we have not finalized our eleven yet, so on and so forth.

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Jayasuriya's omission:

President orders probe

President Mahinda Rajapakse has ordered a probe on the omission of veteran Sri Lanka cricketer Sanath Jayasuriya from the national team for the three-Test series against India which begins in Chennai today.

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