Dilshan targets Test success with young attack- Sri vs Eng

Tillakaratne Dilshan rocks back to pull, Royal Challengers Bangalore v Pune Warriors, IPL 2011, Bangalore, April 29, 2011

Tillakaratne Dilshan is packing away his IPL kit early so he can focus on leading his Sri Lanka team © Associated Press
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Players/Officials: Tillakaratne Dilshan | Dilhara Fernando | Suranga Lakmal | Thisara Perera | Chanaka Welegedara
Series/Tournaments: Sri Lanka tour of England and Scotland
Teams: Sri Lanka

Tillakaratne Dilshan wants to become the first Sri Lanka captain to secure a Test series victory in England after leaving the IPL early to lead his team. Although they famously won the one-off clash at The Oval in 1998, when Muttiah Muralitharan took 16 wickets, their best results in a series on English soil is the 1-1 in 2006 which was again secured thanks to a matchwinning effort by Muralitharan Trent Bridge.

This time there is no Muralitharan, but Dilshan has promised not to take a backward step over the next month. "Beating England in their own conditions in the early part of summer is not going to be easy, we have to play very good cricket to do that," he said.

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Live Scores England Vs WestIndies|3rd ODI

NatWest One Day International Series: England v West Indies
07-07-2007 at Trent Bridge

West Indies beat England by 93 runs
West Indies won the toss and decided to bat
West Indies Innings
289 for 5 (50.0 overs)
England Innings
196 all out (44.2 overs)




Umpires: M R Benson, B G Jerling
England: Cook, Prior, Bell, Pietersen, Collingwood, Shah, Mascarenhas, Plunkett, Broad, Panesar, Anderson
West Indies: Gayle, DS Smith, Chanderpaul, Samuels, DR Smith, Morton, Ramdin, Bravo, Powell, Rampaul, Edwards

Chanderpaul regaining fitness

One-day international, Trent Bridge: England v West Indies
Match starts 1045 BST on Saturday
Live Scores England Vs Westindies will be available here.

WestIndies are expecting that the start batsmen Shivnarine chanerpaul will regain his fitness and will play in the one-day series decider versus England at Trent Bridge on saturday.

Chanderpaul,who is in great form went passed 50 in each of the seven test and one-day Innings on tour,unfortunately injured his ankle.

He contributed solidly through 116 not out in West Indies' 61-run victory in the second one-dayer at Edgbaston on wednesday.

Damp conditions are expected in Nottingham,which will suite seam bowling.Hence,monty hasn't got a great chance of getting the match.

"We are very hopeful Shiv will be right, the physio has been working on him constantly," said coach David Moore.

"He's played exceptionally well in the Test matches and now in the Twenty20s and one-dayers he's been fantastic, very versatile

Moore added that Chanderpaul, who was unable to field in Birmingham on Wednesday, had been an inspiration to his team-mates.

The good thing about Chanderpaul is he's always available to talk to players

West Indies coach david Moore

"It just shows the quality of the player. When a man like that can do what he's done, it's no fluke."

Chanderpaul averaged 148.66 in the Test series and has yet to be dismissed in the current one-day series after scoring an unbeaten 53 in the opener at Lord's last Sunday.

"The good thing about Chanderpaul is he's always available to talk to players, he never cuts himself off," said Moore.

"You don't even have to talk to Chanderpaul, you just stick your head out that window there and see how he trains and you'll see why he scores runs."

England skipper Paul Collingwood admitted that Chanderpaul had been the main topic of conversation ahead of Saturday's encounter.

"A little bit of luck here and there wouldn't go amiss, but sometimes you have to give these guys credit," Collingwood said.

"He is in such a rich vein of form and when a player like him has his confidence up it is very difficult to get him out in any kind of way.

"We have discussed him more than anyone else because he has scored the most runs against us.

"Hopefully he will make a misjudgment or we can get a really good ball to him to get him out early. Sometimes it takes a jaffa to get a guy like him out."

As for Panesar, who was overlooked for the first two matches, Collingwood said: "It is all about the balance of the side.

"Under the right conditions we obviously want to get Monty in. But it all comes down to the weather and the condition of the wicket."

Collingwood added that he hoped his new-look England side would show a ruthless streak in Nottingham.

"We have spoken about having a ruthless edge - hopefully we don't give West Indies an inch on Saturday and leave with nothing," said the Durham all-rounder.

Moore, meanwhile, said a series success outside the Caribbean would be a cherished achievement.

The Windies' last one-day series triumph was in the ICC Champions Trophy in England in 2004.

"It would be nice to win something away from home. It's all about consistency and we have let ourselves down badly in our inconsistency," added Moore.

"If we could put two good games together it would be very good but, in the big picture, it would still only be two games."

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England (from): PD Collingwood (capt), AN Cook, MJ Prior, IR Bell, KP Pietersen, OA Shah, AD Mascarenhas, SC Broad, RJ Sidebottom, JM Anderson, MS Panesar, IJ Trott, MH Yardy, LE Plunkett.

West Indies (from): CH Gayle (capt), DS Smith, S Chanderpaul, MN Samuels, RS Morton, DJ Bravo, DR Smith, DJG Sammy, D Ramdin (wkt), DB Powell, R Rampaul, FH Edwards, LMP Simmons, A Richards jnr.

Umpires: MR Benson & BG Jerling (SA)