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 We are still in the match: Gambhir
8th Aug 2008 23:01 IST
Agencies
India have been dumped for a paltry 249 in their first innings but opener Gautam Gambhir believes his team still had a chance to make a match out of it, if bowlers rise to the occasion.
The left-handed batsman from Delhi top scored for India scoring 72 but middle-order cut a sorry figure yet again in the three-match series.
"We should have got a much higher score than what we got at the end of the day. But this is part and parcel of Test cricket. It is a call for win sessions.
"And I think we are still very much in the game if we have one or two early wickets in the morning... We can be right back into the game," he told reporters after the day’s play at P Saravanamuttu Stadium in Colombo today.
Gambhir though conceded that it was Indian batsmen who are to be blamed for the poor show as the wicket had hardly anything to offer to the bowlers.
"It is a fantastic wicket to bat on to be very honest. There was hardly anything for the bowlers. There was nothing for the fast bowlers. Nothing for the spinners. It is just that we did not bat well. We should have got much more score than what we got," he opined.
The Indian opener also praised debutante Dammika Prasad, who took three wickets.
"There was hardly any grass on the surface to be very honest. He bowled very well. He bowled in the right channel. That is what is really important on this kind of a track where there is hardly any help for the fast bowlers. He bowled in the right areas."
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