Ganguly concerned over inability to dismiss tail

Indian captain, Saurav Ganguly, praised his quick bowlers for the discipline showed in the second Test but said something needed to be done about their inability to polish off the tail.

"I think it is creating a bit of a problem for us. We will try to do something about this (in the third Test) in Colombo," he said referring to Muthiah Muralitharan's blistering knock of 67 which enabled Sri Lanka to fight back from 157 for nine to 221 in their second innings.

Ganguly rated his own match-winning knock of 98 as one of the better ones and said his prolonged poor run with the bat had been hurting him.

"I think it is one of my better Test knocks because it helped India win," Ganguly said referring to his brilliant knock which helped India win the second cricket Test against Sri Lanka by seven wickets.

Ganguly, who had gone without a half-century in the last 13 innings in a frustrating poor trot, finally got his act together and played a brilliant innings yesterday. "The lack of runs was very upsetting, especially since I am the captain," he said.

Ganguly's scintillating knock was blemished by two dropped catches but the Indian captain felt it was only justified as he has had a number of hard decisions in the recent past. "It's all equal now."

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