Sri Lanka vs India 1st Test 2008: Live TV Channels

India is in Sri Lanka to play a three-match Test series followed by five ODI matches against host Sri Lanka. Now, Indians are playing a three-day practice match against Sri Lanka Board XI. However, fans of both teams are heading towards the first five-day Test match of Sri Lanka vs India which is scheduled to start from 23rd July, 2008. Captain of both teams are promised to give a rival series. Both teams have some quality players who will come for conflict ahead of some milestone. This series keeps important role for both host Sri Lanka and tourist India team as both are confident to show good performance ahead of the upcoming ICC Champions Trophy 2008 which will kick off from September 11, 2008 in Pakistan.
Lots of veteran players will face each other in this series. No doubt it is going to be a tough series. Recently, Sri Lanka defeated India in the final match of Asia Cup 2008. So, India will look for revenge in this series for their past defeat. This much hype Test series has become successful to catch the attention of all cricket fans because of its climax, excitement and thrill. India last toured to Sri Lanka in 2001 where they lost to the series by 2-1 with a close contest. That time their key players Sachin Tendulkar and Anil Kumble were injured. Now, in this 16-member Test squad both have been included. Indian batting great Sachin Tendulkar needs only 172 runs to break the record of West Indian Brian Lara’s world record of 11,953 Test runs. So, cricket beloved fans are excited to see this series with much curiosity and passion. The sad news is that because of the short version of Cricket game Test series has lost its popularity. People are now more focusing on limited over game and T20 match. Because of IPL and rebel ICL T20 has become money machine. Recently, England Cricket Board is going to lunch their T20 tournament named Stanford T20 league. This visible threat of Test cricket will continue in future too.
However, Test cricket is pure game and many people still like this format. So, many of you will browse to know the telecasting channels of this series. For that passionate and cricket crazy fans I am giving a good news is that the most famous sports channel in Asia Ten Sports will telecast the Sri Lanka vs India Test and ODI series live. So, if you are South Asian or stay in Middle East then keep watching on this channel. Some other channels like Neo Sports and Doordarshan will also telecast the match live on these channels. Neo Sports will telecast full series where as DD Sports will telecast only ODI matches.
So, dear fans if you are fan of cricket game and support any of them then should keep watching live because anything can happen in this series. I hope you will get some pleasure from this series.
What is your prediction about this series? What do you think who can win the series? I would like to bet for India team because I am big fan of them.
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