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India: 249 & SL: 14/1 (8.0 Ovs), Gambhir 72, Ganguly 35, Laxman 25, Sehwag 21. Ajantha Mendis 5 wkts, Dammika Prasad 3 wkts & Muralitharan 2 wkts. India won the toss and elected to bat first but the batsmen did not vindicate the decision of their captain as they failed to put up a decent score on the board. It was only for the last wicket pair (Zaheer Khan 32 & Ishant Sharma 17) that the Indians managed to get to 249 and interestingly, now the same pair will have a huge role to play if India are to make a comeback in this test match. We will be back with all the action from Day 2.