Rain plays Spoilsport

In the 1st test match of the Idea Cup between India and Srilanka, started yesterday (23rd July-2008) at Sinhalese Sports Club-Colombo, in which rain spoiled the match party for the most number of hours. After a delayed start, the match resumed only at 3.30 p.m. after the tea break. After Srilanka won the toss, they decided to bat first. On a batting pitch, the Indian bowlers did a good job by capturing early the wicket of Vandort on 3 caught by karthik of the bowling of Ishant Sharma.But Warnapura and Sangakkara steadied the innings with some good batting performance.But Sangakkara did not last longer because he was caught by Dravid of the bowling of Zaheer Khan.He was dismissed was for 12 runs. Then Jayawardene and Warnapura batted till the end of the day with Warnapura batting on 50 and Jayawardene batting on 16 and the Srilankans socre were 85 for the loss of 2 wickets from 22 overs on the board when bad light ended the first day's play. Indeed the rain had played the most of the match on the first day at the SCC in Colombo. Hope we expect a full day's play for the coming days in this test match and we hope for a better results!!!