Sehwag ONLY Sehwag - India v Sri Lanka 3rd Test, Sri Lanka tour of India

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Sri Lanka tour of India, 3rd Test: India v Sri Lanka at Mumbai (BS)
Dec 3-6, 2009

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Sri Lanka 393

India 424/1 (72.6 ov)

India lead by 31 runs with 9 wickets remaining in the 1st innings

Day 2 - Session 3

• India RR 5.80
• Last 10 ovs 56/0 RR 5.60
• Min overs remaining 9.0

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	Batsmen	Runs	B	4s	6s
	*Virender Sehwag (rhb)	275	227	39	7
	Rahul Dravid (rhb)	52	97	5	0
	Bowlers	O	M	R	W
	*Tillakaratne Dilshan (ob)	0.6	0	5	0
	Muttiah Muralitharan (ob)	19.0	0	118	0

Recent overs 4 . 1nb . 1 . . | 1 . 1 . . 4 | 1 . 4 . 1 1 | 1 1 1 . 1 1 Current partnership 203 runs, 33.5 overs, RR: 6.00 (Dravid 52, Sehwag 146) Last Bat M Vijay lbw b Herath 87 (177m 121b 10x4 1x6) SR: 71.90 Fall of wicket: 221/1 (39.1 ov); Partnership: 221 runs, 39.1 overs, RR: 5.64 (Sehwag 129, Vijay 87)

72.6	Dilshan to Dravid, 1 run, moves back to push it through the off side
72.5	Dilshan to Sehwag, 1 run
72.4	Dilshan to Sehwag, no run, reaches out to defend to the off side
72.3	Dilshan to Dravid, 1 run, turned to the on side for a single
72.2	Dilshan to Sehwag, 1 run, dropped by Mahela at first slip. Not a easy chance. It turned in from outside off stump, from short of length, Sehwag tried to cut it late past mahela but it went fast to the right of mahela who put his right hand out but couldn't hold on. Just below knee high. Insert here
72.1	Dilshan to Dravid, 1 run, goes right back into the crease to clip it to deep midwicket. 50 up for Dravid and the crowd cheer. Sehwag walks across to shake his hands
Dilshan to bowl
End of over 72 (7 runs) India 419/1 R Dravid 49* (94b 5x4) M Muralitharan 19-0-118-0 V Sehwag 273* (224b 39x4 7x6) AD Mathews 6-0-36-0
71.6	Muralitharan to Dravid, 1 run, on the leg and middle, wristed past square-leg
71.5	Muralitharan to Sehwag, 1 run, turns in on the middle stump, Sehwag stays adjacent to the line and steers it through point
71.4	Muralitharan to Sehwag, no run, flighted outside leg stump, swept to short fine-leg
71.3	Muralitharan to Sehwag, FOUR, edges it to third man boundary! He moved down the track and went for the big lofted shot to long-on but it flew through the vacant slip cordon
71.2	Muralitharan to Sehwag, no run, from round the stumps, turns to leg and middle line, tapped to the on side
71.1	Muralitharan to Dravid, 1 run, goes well back to clip it to deep backward square-leg
End of over 71 (6 runs) India 412/1 V Sehwag 268* (220b 38x4 7x6) AD Mathews 6-0-36-0 R Dravid 47* (92b 5x4) M Muralitharan 18-0-111-0
70.6	Mathews to Sehwag, FOUR, aha! slower one outside off stump, Sehwag checked his shot, hung his bat out and it runs away to third man boundary
70.5	Mathews to Sehwag, no run, on the middle and leg, turned to midwicket
70.4	Mathews to Sehwag, no run, short and wide... Sehwag chases it and mistimes the cut to point
70.3	Mathews to Dravid, 1 run, banged in short, pulled away to deep midwicket
70.2	Mathews to Dravid, no run, good straight drive but too straight .. it crashes into the stumps at the other end ..
70.1	Mathews to Sehwag, 1 run, well outside off stump, cut to sweeper cover
End of over 70 (6 runs) India 406/1 R Dravid 46* (90b 5x4) M Muralitharan 18-0-111-0 V Sehwag 263* (216b 37x4 7x6) AD Mathews 5-0-30-0
69.6	Muralitharan to Dravid, no run, on the middle stump, spins in, Dravid gets forward to block it
69.5	Muralitharan to Dravid, no run, on the pads, rolls away behind the wicket
69.4	Muralitharan to Sehwag, 1 run, turns to the leg stump, worked wide of short fine-leg fielder
69.3	Muralitharan to Sehwag, no run, flatter but slips down the leg side, lets it go through
69.3	Muralitharan to Sehwag, 1 no ball, spins in to the middle and leg, tapped to square-leg
69.2	Muralitharan to Sehwag, no run, leans well forward to defend to the off side

The Ashes 2009, The England & Wales Cricket Board, Flintoff to play Ashes decider

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The England & Wales Cricket Board are confident Andrew Flintoff will be available for the Ashes finale at The Oval following a positive diagnosis from his knee specialist, Andy Williams. With England facing a must-win encounter at The Oval next week following their humiliating defeat in Leeds, a return to match fitness for Flintoff - in what would be his final Test match appearance before retirement - looms as a massive boost to their prospects of regaining the Ashes.

"The advice received was that the swelling in his knee has significantly eased following the decision by the England management team to rest him from the last Test Match and that subject to further rest and intensive treatment, he will be available for selection for the 5th npower Ashes Test at The Brit Oval," the ECB said in a statement

The assessment tallies with Flintoff's own take on events, because he himself believed he could have taken part in the Headingley debacle. In his absence, England lost by an innings and 80 runs inside two-and-a-half days, but Flintoff later claimed that his participation was vetoed by the captain Andrew Strauss and the coach, Andy Flower. "He told them that he was fit enough to get through," his agent, Chubby Chandler, told The Times, "but they didn't want him."

News of Flintoff's return to fitness will buoy Flower, who on Sunday warned that England could not afford another repeat of Headingley. Flintoff was only informed of his omission on the eve of the match, and the official announcement was held back until an hour before the toss, disrupting team selection. "I think we'd like to know before that," he said. "I don't think we'd want to leave it very late.

"He wanted to play, he was desperate to play but he acknowledged that he wasn't fully fit and he was struggling a bit, so we couldn't play him under those circumstances," said Flower. "If the advice is that he will be fit enough to take part as an allrounder at The Oval, then we will listen to that advice and listen to Fred's information about his own body as well."

A fully fit Flintoff would be the perfect tonic for a beleaguered team, but Flower denied that his fitness battle was having a destabilising effect on the team, as they attempt to mount a comeback in the series, and seal the Ashes for only the second time in the past 20 years. "We've gone whole series waiting on his fitness, so this match is no different," he said. "I would think we'll get some good information back from the specialist, and also some information from him on how he feels, because there's a good chunk of time between now and The Oval, so we'll have a better indication."

Either way, Flower and the England think-tank are already braced for life after Flintoff, and the selection dilemmas inherent therein. "The balance of the side when you haven't got an allrounder at 6 or 7 is always the problem, and it's one we're going to have to face up to because Flintoff is retiring from Test cricket," he said. "That is a problem, because [without him] we seem light either on the batting or the bowling side. If he's not fit for The Oval, we'll have to make a decision on where we settle for our strong point."

England received further positive news on Monday, with James Anderson cleared of a serious hamstring injury. Anderson suffered a slight strain while running between the wickets in the first innings at Headingley, but is expected to play at The Oval. Cricketmore ...