da jogodeouro： After a humiliating loss, Indian captain Sourav Ganguly came up withsome brave words and predicted that India would come back into thethree-Test series against Sri Lanka just as they did against themighty Australians earlier this year
17-Aug-2001After a humiliating loss, Indian captain Sourav Ganguly came up withsome brave words and predicted that India would come back into thethree-Test series against Sri Lanka just as they did against themighty Australians earlier this year.”We will come back as we did against the Aussies,” Ganguly said afterIndia suffered their first Test defeat to Sri Lanka in 16 years.”(Unfortunately) we have got injuries to a few key players,” he saidreferring to the absence of Sachin Tendulkar, Anil Kumble and VVSLaxman from the side.”They (Sri Lankans) batted better (than us) and bowled a decent lineespecially on the third day,” Ganguly said conducting a post-mortem ofthe ten-wicket loss.Not ready to accept that India were a very different team outsidetheir own soil, Ganguly said that his team had won a match abroad,against Zimbabwe, in recent months.”(And) we have been in winning positions on a number of occasionsabroad but have not been able to capitalise… Now we have got thepotential and have a much better batting side. We have four or fivegood guys,” he said.A jubilant home skipper Sanath Jayasuriya, who was declared the manof-the-match for his brilliant century that set the tempo for histeam, lauded his bowling attack.”First Dilhara (Feranando) and then Murali (Muthiah Muralitharan)bowled well. I’am happy for Dilhara and we’ve got a host of fastbowlers coming up,” he said.