kolkata rain seems to be following the sri lankans after inclement weather hampered their preparation back home ahead of their departure for kolkata the visitors were greeted by unseasonal showers a day before they set out on the quest to win their maiden test match in indiaits been raining continuously since late tuesday night forcing teams to cancel their practice sessions on the eve of the first test here at eden gardens the met office has forecast some more showers on thursday raising doubts of play on day 1 whenever the action begins in this latest indolanka threematch series victory for the islanders looks a distant dreamit was just over two months ago that the indians completed a 90 whitewash of the lankans across all formats post that disaster at home sri lanka did blank pakistan 20 to become the first team to win a test series against pakistan in the uae since australia in 2002 but still the upcoming contest between the world no 1 and no 6 test sides is expected to produce yet another major mismatchlankan cricket has been in turmoil thanks to several offfield controversies and their performance on the field has been plagued by mediocrity over the past year on the contrary india have been on a roll dominating their opponents in all formats of the game having played 13 odis and seven twenty20 internationals following the test series in lanka the indians will look to quickly get into testmatch mode ravichandran ashwin and ravindra jadeja especially will be itching to perform as they were kept out of the limitedovers squadthe greenish eden pitch however might see the seamers make hay when the sun does break through the clouds the hard and bouncy track could influence the indian think tank to include three seamers with bhuvneshwar kumar coming in for hardik pandya the uttar pradesh pacer picked up a fiver against new zealand last year and swung the white ball under lights to bowl india to an odi win against australia two months agowhen it comes to opening batsmen skipper virat kohli is spoilt for choice the balance has swung every now and then between two guys doing well and one of them missing out kohli said on wednesdayalthough murali vijay is back after recovering from a wrist injury that had kept him out of the sri lanka tour kohli indicated that he may go in with inform shikhar dhawan and kl rahul up frontit will be a new experience for most of the lankan players as the islanders last toured india for a test series in 2009 when kohli had not even made his test debut only two players angelo mathews and rangana herath from the current squad have experience of playing test cricket in india and the duo is expected to deliver as well as guide the youngstersthe lankans will also depend heavily on dimuth karunaratne and skipper dinesh chandimal both of whom got centuries against pakistan in the uae to