Bon Voyage, India

Thanks for coming, India.

I love that the Lankan team finally matches the talk with the walk. It is a fantastic young side blended perfectly with the experience of the three most noble servants - Murali, Sanna and Vassie. This quote epitomises the new Lankan belief and we definitely have given ourselves a huge boost to repeat 1996.

Extracted from Cricinfo.com.

The proof has been in their play but, just in case it was not emphatic enough, their captain Mahela Jayawardene also talked the talk. "Bangaldesh did not meekly surrender to us," he asserted after Wednesday's wholesome victory, "we made them surrender." And if India "showed us a few things when we were in India, it is now our turn to show them." Few things excite the smaller nations of the sub-continent than slaying the big beast.

My semi-finalists:

1. Sri Lanka
2. Australia
3. New Zealand
4. South Africa

Of the eight in the Super 8, two of them will simply fizzle out - Ireland and Bangladesh. That means, I am assuming England (assuming they go past Kenya today) and West Indies will also get knocked out.

Some pictures from the recently concluded match with India...

Cha-Cha-Cha-Chamara Silva - in the form of his life!

One more time. It is 1996 all over again!

What Dravid is thinking? "Frick. I am so so so screwed." =(