Sachin out, but who146;s complaining

Though Tendulkar has been ruled out for the match due to an ankle injury, the Indians were unlikely to risk either Virender Sehwag or Ajit Agarkar against the Zimbabweans as all three are under physio Andrew Leipus8217; attention and in various stages of mend.

Zimbabwe is relying too heavily on Heath Streak for a decent batting and bowling performance, but the skipper doing all the job is unlikely to happen every time.

In the absence of Andy Flower, who quit the team protesting against the Robert Mugabe regime, it is high time the talented likes of Stuart Carlisle, Sean Ervine, Grant Flower, and Andy Blignaut came good.

So vast is the gulf between the two teams in terms of batting might that even a deficient India is capable of either setting up a huge total or chasing one themselves under the lights.

Streak said his team was quite used to losing matches but the huge margin of defeats had made it difficult mentally to pick up their game.

8220;We have to rebound from our first three losses. They were heavy losses. We have a lot of time to think about it and we have come up with some new ideas,8221; Streak said on the eve of their fourth match in the series against India at the Gabba.

8220;As Zimbabweans we are quite used to losing even though we don8217;t like it. It becomes difficult mentally to pick yourself up from that sort of defeats,8221; he said.

The skipper said one of his top four batsmen would have to come good to force India on the backfoot tomorrow.

8220;As we saw on Sunday, if somebody could bat as well as Matthew Hayden and VVS Laxman and get a big score, we could have a total to compete,8221; said Streak. PTI