The H
8th March 2005, 00:35
India look a stand out 7/5 (ukbetting, Totalbet) to beat Pakistan in the 1st test. Rain is forecast on wednesday, but the other days have plenty of sun...
Pakistan's lack of bowling strength should be punished by the Indians. Their plans have been hampered by rain affected warm-up games and thier over-eager batsmen haven't had time to rid themselves of the collapses in Australia.
Draw is 5/4 and Pak 5/1 (both @ sporting odds)
Teams:
India (likely) 1 Gautam Gambhir, 2 Virender Sehwag, 3 Rahul Dravid, 4 Sachin Tendulkar, 5 Sourav Ganguly (capt), 6 VVS Laxman, 7 Dinesh Karthik (wk), 8 Irfan Pathan, 9 Harbhajan Singh, 10 Anil Kumble, 11 Zaheer Khan.
Pakistan (likely) 1 Salman Butt, 2 Yasir Hameed, 3 Younis Khan, 4 Yousuf Youhana, 5 Inzamam-ul-Haq (capt), 6 Asim Kamal, 7 Abdul Razzaq, 8 Kamran Akmal, 9 Mohammad Sami, 10 Rana Naved-ul-Hasan, 11 Danish Kaneria.
Pakistan's lack of bowling strength should be punished by the Indians. Their plans have been hampered by rain affected warm-up games and thier over-eager batsmen haven't had time to rid themselves of the collapses in Australia.
Draw is 5/4 and Pak 5/1 (both @ sporting odds)
Teams:
India (likely) 1 Gautam Gambhir, 2 Virender Sehwag, 3 Rahul Dravid, 4 Sachin Tendulkar, 5 Sourav Ganguly (capt), 6 VVS Laxman, 7 Dinesh Karthik (wk), 8 Irfan Pathan, 9 Harbhajan Singh, 10 Anil Kumble, 11 Zaheer Khan.
Pakistan (likely) 1 Salman Butt, 2 Yasir Hameed, 3 Younis Khan, 4 Yousuf Youhana, 5 Inzamam-ul-Haq (capt), 6 Asim Kamal, 7 Abdul Razzaq, 8 Kamran Akmal, 9 Mohammad Sami, 10 Rana Naved-ul-Hasan, 11 Danish Kaneria.