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Sri Lanka v Canada 3rd World Cup game at Hambantota Preview

The third game of the cricket World Cup 2011 will have Sri Lanka taking on Canada at Hambantota. The game will be played on February 20 and will be a day-night match.

This will be the first ever international to be played at Hambantota and given the newness of the ground and hence the pitch, things could get interesting. Sri Lanka will go into the game after having won both their warm-up matches rather convincingly; they beat Netherlands by a whopping 156 runs before breaking no sweat over chasing down 282 against West Indies.

Canada had a hard time against Bangladesh in their first warm-up game and capitulated to a nine-wicket loss. Earlier, they had beaten Netherlands but lost to Afghanistan in two warm-up games in Dubai. With a suspect batting line-up that is over-reliant on John Davison, it is difficult to see how they can even come close to defeating the home team.

Bwin offers 1/19 for a Sri Lankan win as compared to 14/1 (BetFred) if Canada do manage an upset. Looks highly unlikely though.

Sri Lanka’s top-order has been managing all the runs in recent times but some of their middle-order worries would have been assuaged with the form shown by Thilan Samaraweera (7/1 at Totesport) in recent times. However, it is difficult to see the Sri Lankans having to use the services of Samaraweera with some dazzling batsmen at the top of the order to do the job.

Upul Tharanga (3/1 at Totesport) has filled in the big boots of Sanath Jayasuriya rather well and could bat through most part of the innings. His batting has blossomed well and despite scoring at a fair clip, he averages almost 35 in ODIs. He will not miss out on the opportunity to feast on the Canadian bowling – Khurram Chohan’s three quick wickets against England notwithstanding.

Davison’s iffy form will be of great concern for the Canadian side. He has barely been able to get off the mark in recent times and for his side to do well, he needs to bat at least half the overs. Ashish Bagai will lead the side and will look to prop up the batting in the middle-order.



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