The team that tick marks all its positives and works well on the negatives will eventually have the best chance to win cricket's most coveted title.
The Wankhede Stadium, in all its new splendour, is looking beautiful alongside the Arabian Sea, decked to host the final of the 2011 World Cup. In a tournament that has sent the sub-continent into frenzy, it is perhaps most fitting that two of Asia's best teams are fighting the mother of all battles.
Statistics can take a walk and so can reputations. There's no case for home or away advantage either. All the talk and glib of favourites and underdogs, matches and mismatches exist no more. It's time for the two teams to play good cricket and the one that emerges better will be crowned champions.
For that to happen, quality control will be the ess.....
India vs Sri Lanka
