India v Sri Lanka 1st Test Cricket Match

16 Nov 2009, Sri Lanka tour of India started by today’s first test cricket match which played at Sardar Patel Stadium, Motera, Ahmedabad.
Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni won the toss and decided to bat first. Gautam Gambhir and Virender Sehwag opened Indian innings but they went to the back foot after loosing four wickets in thirty two runs.

Sri Lankan fast bowler UWMBCA Welegedara took three valuable batsman Gambhir, Sehwag and Tendulkar in his first spell.
In this tour, Sri Lanka will play three tests, two T20I and five one day cricket match against the host.

India test cricket XI squad are : 1 Gautam Gambhir, 2 Virender Sehwag, 3 Rahul Dravid, 4 Sachin Tendulkar, 5 VVS Laxman, 6 Yuvraj Singh, 7 MS Dhoni, 8 Harbhajan Singh, 9 Zaheer Khan, 10 Ishant Sharma, 11 Amit Mishra.

Sri Lanka test cricket squad are : 1 Tharanga Paranavitana, 2 Tillakaratne Dilshan, 3 Kumar Sangakkara, 4 Mahela Jayawardene, 5 Thilan Samaraweera, 6 Angelo Mathews, 7 Prasanna Jayawardene, 8 Dammika Prasad, 9 Chanaka Welegedara, 10 Muttiah Muralitharan, 11 Rangana Herath.
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Umpires : DJ Harper (Australia), AL Hill (New Zealand), AM Saheba, JJ Crowe (New Zealand), SD Ranade.