India seek to work out series lead in Kanpur
India go into the second Test against Sri Lanka in Kanpur on Tuesday hoping not to repeat the follies in Ahmedabad.
The hosts’ batting inconsistency and bowling frailties laid bare in the yard-earned draw in Ahmedabad.
The famed Indian batting line-up both embarrassed and redeemed itself in the Ahmedabad shirtfront, where it collapsed like a house of cards in the first innings and then rose from its ruins in the second to salvage a draw from the jaws of a seemingly imminent defeat.
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