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Gautam Gambhir and Sachin Tendulkar hit opportune centuries as India came up with a spirited batting display to salvage a draw in Ahmedabad.
Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni described the Motera featherbed as a bowler-hostile track but his Sri Lankan counterpart Kumar Sangakkara had no issues with the strip which he described as a 'true' wicket.
Ex-India captain Sourav Ganguly described Sachin Tendulkar as the greatest batsman of his generation.
"I read in the newspapers somewhere recently that a boy in Mumbai scored 400-odd runs. Papers said he's going to be the next Sachin. How can anyone say that?" Sri Lankan spin wizard MuttiahMuralitharan asks.
Sri Lanka’s wicketkeeper-batsman Prasanna Jayawardene did not know he had broken a 72-year-old sixth wicket partnership record with Mahela Jayawardene till he was informed by team manager Brendon Kuruppu.
So umpires in India have started calling bowlers for chucking and it is nice to see a forgotten law being implemented!
Pak selectors included Shoaib Akhtar and Shahid Afridi in the final 15-man squad after they cleared a fitness test.
After the low-scoring match in Delhi, the fans will be looking forward to a run feast in Mohali with the pitch curator predicting that the two teams' combined score could be in excess of 550.
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