da doce： Captain Sourav Ganguly believes teamwork will be essential if India are todefeat Sri Lanka and confirm their presence in the semi-finals on Monday
CricInfo10-Mar-2003Captain Sourav Ganguly believes teamwork will be essential if India are todefeat Sri Lanka and confirm their presence in the semi-finals on Monday.India, currently on 12 points, are virtually assured of a semi-final placeafter their nervy win against Kenya on Friday – a win against Sri Lanka willguarantee their qualification.”This is an important phase of the tournament and all of us need tocontribute,” said Ganguly after the team’s final practice.”After this game we could be in the semi-finals. That is going to happenwith one or two guys contributing, it’s got to be teamwork,” he added”I am very happy at the way we all are hitting the ball. We are playing aswell as we did in the NatWest Trophy in England.”We want to finish second or third and more importantly, we want to keep onwinning. Winning is a good habit and we won our last five games. We want tokeep it going.”Ganguly claims to know Sri Lanka’s strengths and weaknesses.”Jayasuriya is a key player for them with the bat and with the ball it willbe an advantage for us if he doesn’t play. Even with Sanath in the sidewe’ve won against them. Obviously he is one of their key players.”Aravinda, Atapattu are all good players, Mahela is not in the best oftouch, but he is a quality player. They’ve got Sangakkara, Arnold,Tillakaratne and they are decent batting side. The focus will not only be onSanath but on the whole side.”The Indian captain is also wary of Chaminda Vaas: “He has served Sri Lankacricket a long time and we have a lot of respect for him as a bowler.”