India's looking good...

Sachin just smashed his 41st ODI century, Ganguly's back with a vengeance, their opening conundrum's been solved, and the bowlers are getting wickets...

All in all, India after a poor couple of months in the middle, are getting back to where they were a year ago, in more ways than one. Not only are they back to their winnings ways, but the squad shuffling of the past few months seems to have come full circle. They're back to the Ganguly opening, Sachin in the middle, with Zaheer and Agarkar opening the bowling. I, for one, am very excited to see Ganguly back.

In this upcoming World Cup, where there is no clear cut 2nd best team, India, in my opinion, are looking pretty cohesive and tough. Thus the upcoming Ind-SL, along with the Pak-SA ODI series, will give us a clue and perhaps enable us to gauge the strengths and weaknesses of the four '2nd best' teams, one of which is most likely going to battle in Australia in the World Cup final in a couple of months.