Indian news round-up

While the batsmen failed to put up a decent score in either innings, selection committee chairman Chandu Borde chose to attack the bowlers for India's humiliating 10-wicket loss to Sri Lanka in the first Test at Galle on Friday. "The bowlers gave away too many runs and did not take advantage of the wicket in the beginning when they should have bowled a better line and length," Borde told PTI over phone from Pune.

"It was yet another dismal performance (by the Indians)," he said but refused to go into the merits of Saurav Ganguly's leadership. "This is not the time to do that... The captain is equally disappointed."

Borde hoped the team would leave the defeat behind and play the next two Tests with a renewed zeal. "Ours is a talented team and all they (the players) need to do is to regroup themselves and play to their potential, putting the past behind them," he said.

The Sri Lankan A and Pakistan A teams will play a triangular one-day series in India in November, according to former Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) president Raj Singh Dungarpur.

Dungarpur told PTI in Mumbai on Friday that both the Pakistan and Sri Lankan cricket boards have agreed to visit India. "I spoke to Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) director Brig Munawar Rana and Sri Lankan Board CEO Anura Tenekoon and both have agreed in principle," Dungarpur added.

The Indian A team will also play a three-match `Test' series with the Pakistan A team followed by a two-match `Test' series against Sri Lanka A. The triangular series will come up for ratification at the BCCI's working committee meeting in Mumbai on August 25.

The Bangalore based National Cricket Academy has short listed a list of 20 trainees who will have a coaching schedule at the Academy premises from August 27 to September 22. The players were selected from the five zonal academies and most of them are expected to figure in the third batch of NCA trainees next year.

The trainees: K Rawat, Kunal Lal, Vivek Sharma, Abhishek Sharma (all North Zone), Vinay Uttappa, Stuart Binny, AT Rayudu and Sendhil Kumar (all South Zone), S Biswal, R Jaiswal, R Mohanty and Mihir Diwakar (all East Zone), Paul Vallthaty, Sahil Kukreja, Siddarth Trivedi and S Bachani (all West Zone), Munish Mishra, Sachin Dholpure, Devinder Singh and Surinder Singh (all Central Zone).