Asia Cup, India have brought in Zaheer Khan, Harbhajan Singh and Munaf Patel. Pragyan Ojha, who didn't allow the rampaging Sanath Jayasuriya to punish him in that Asia Cup final, got another game.

It will be interesting to see how the pitch behaves. Even Mahela Jayawardene said at the toss that he would have batted had the luck of the coin gone his way. Traditionally, both spinners and the seamers have done well here - spinners have taken 139 wickets at an average of 24.05 and the seamers have grabbed 178 wickets at 26.96. Interestingly, there has been only one international hundred on this track, scored by Rahul Dravid.

While the Indian team's problems against M&M have been well documented, Sri Lanka have had their share of middle-order muddles .youth allegedly breached. The Prime Minister’s Office is monitoring the probe and the R&AW and the Ministries of External Affairs and Home are also part of the investigation.

Around 4 pm on March 14, after the Prime Minister concluded the handing over of possession certificates for houses to women beneficiaries in Ilavalai village, he went behind the stage to board his car. As he was about to board the white SUV, sources said, a Sri Lankan youth, in his 20s and dressed in shirt and trousers, approached him, and was about to shake hands with him when SPG personnel caught him. The youth did not touch the Prime Minister, sources said.

The youth is said to have told SPG officials that he wanted to “shake hands and take a picture”