1.   Headley will form a medium pace-quartet with Cork, Angus Fraser and Mark Ealham, while off spinner Robert Croft remains the only specialist slow bowler.

2.   Kumara Dharmasena is another specialist spin bowler, but Sanath Jayasuriya, Aravinda de Silva, Asanka Gurusinha and Ranatunga, would also bowl.

3.   Teetering on elimination, the Indian team is veering toward adding another all rounder if Mongia is out rather than another specialist bowler.

4.   Two all-rounders and three specialist bowlers complete the Bangladesh team that includes two new faces, batsman Khaled Mahmud and medium-fast bowler Masrafee Bin Murtoza.

5.   But we are forced to play only four specialist bowlers because we do not have an all-rounder.