India had a fair chance to win

It was a big relief for me to score an important century at Adelaide. It was not one of my prettiest innings, but I knew that if I knuckled down and scored some runs, we still had a chance to win the Test. However, Virender Sehwag came up with a gem of a knock and took his team to a draw.The good thing about my innings is that I feel a lot better about my timing now. Unfortunately, I also developed a niggle which kept me off practice till this afternoon. I trained and batted today, but will take a final call about playing tomorrow afternoon. There is a pretty exhaustive one-day series starting this weekend so I would not like to take a risk tomorrow, if I am not 100 per cent fit.The Sri Lankans might just be the best prepared side for this tri-series, because they have a couple of one-day warm-ups before coming into the series. India and Australia have not had any preparation, so they might take a couple of games to warm up.The Indians have taken the brave decision to not play Sourav Ganguly who complements Sachin Tendulkar at the top of the order. It will also be interesting to see how Mahendra Singh Dhoni fares, though I suspect he will do better in the one-dayers because the field is spread by the time he comes in to bat. He was caught behind the wicket in almost every innings, but that might not be the case in the one-dayers.