Battle of Supremacy - Mighty India takes on unpredictable England tomorrow

The stage is set for India and England to wage their battles for supremacy. India, as always, looks stronger on paper, will be hoping to keep it simple and effortless by using their main weapon - experience. England on the other hand is quite happy to come into the game as underdogs, this eliminates pressure of the home crowd who want them to win.

India is focused, eager and hungry after their success in the recently concluded Test series. Not often is this the case. It has a good balance to the side with stroke-makers Sachin and Sourav at the top, energetic Yuvraj, Gambhir and Dhoni in the middle, and cool-headed Dravid to steer the innings at the end of an awe-inspiring batting lineup. Bowling does not fall too far behind with wicket taking abilities of Agarkar and Zaheer, steady line and length from Munaf and hard to get off-spin leg-spin pair of Ramesh Powar and Piyush Chawla. I will be crucial for batsman to get enough runs if India goes in with 5 speciality bowlers.

England is hoping for miracles from 2-3 players to shock the Indians. They are certainly capable of doing it, and frankly if that does not happen, then England are going to perish quite easily. Strength of England are going to be it's relatively experienced players, the likes of Paul Collingwood, Kevin Pietersen, Andrew Flintoff, and to an extent James Anderson, and their ability to gel together and come-up with tactics to out-smart great Indian batsmen. Players to watch out for are Chris Tremlett, Owais Shah and Monty Panesar. They will have the energy and hunger which might propell them over the daunting shadows of mighty India.

On the whole it should be a good series to watch and enjoy. Like any other cricket fan I want to see runs flow from the willow of Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly one of which will try to bat through the innings and get a big one to secure an early advantage in this 7-match long series.

Weather permitting we may witness an excellent game of cricket between these exciting cricketing nations.