Indian Captain Rahul Dravid have won the toss and elected to field first against Ireland on the moving and bouncy wickets. India is playing without the master hitter Mahendra Singh Dhoni and paceman Zaheer Khan while Rohit Sharma is making his debut.
S.Sreesanth and R.P Singh started the Bowling for India and give the early breakthrough by claiming the opener K Carroll (he is caught by karthik on the bowling of S.Sreesanth).
Although India look favorite to win this match against Ireland on paper but as you remember the same Irish team has been addicted of beating Asian team in the World Cup 2007 (Pakistan & Bangladesh). They have reached the super Eight stage in the world cup 2007.
Yajurvindra Singh has make the statement that Indian will be easily bowled out the Irish team below 150, let see what happens.
Match will be display exclusively live on SET MAX at 2.30 PM in India.
Indian Squad for this match is as follows: R Dravid (C), G Gambhir, S Ganguly, S Tendulkar, Yuvraj Singh, D Karthik, R Sharma, A Agarkar, RP Singh, Piyush Chawla, S Sreesanth.
Ireland Squad: T Johnston (capt), W Porterfield, K Carroll, D Joyce, N O'Brien, G Wilson, A White, K O'Brien, M Fourie, R Whelan, W McCallan.
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