India Srilanka series
Dhoni has said playing down the threat from the new spin sensation of Sri Lanka Ajantha Mendis the team is not vary of playing him.Even Dhoni said it is tough to beat Sri Lanka on Srilanka.Asked how his team was going to face Mendis, who ran though their batting order in the Test series here last year, Dhoni said they had a measure of the spinner during the subsequent ODI series, which India won.He said we did well with him in the one dayers,although the team was missing Harbhajan Singh, the senior member of the team’s spin department, it has given a golden opportunity for the upcoming youngsters to perform and prove their talents.
Sri Lankan President invites
Sri lanka president has welcomed Karunanidhi and Jayalalitha to affna peninsula and personally appeal to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam to release the civilians held as “human shield at gunpoint.”He said if Mr. Karunanidhi is interested in a ceasefire he can persuade the Tamil Tigers to lay down their arms and announce it publicly so that arms surrender could be worked out in a mutually acceptable way as proposed by Mr. Karunanidhi and the Sri Lanka Government.The President said the number of civilians held by LTTE is around 150-200 thousands.Mr. Rajapaksa said the ‘liberated’ Tamils of the North would be brought back to the democratic mainstream and measures taken to ensure that they lived in Sri Lanka with honour and dignity like other ethnic groups in other parts of the nation.
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