Friday, August 18 2006 11:55 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

Colombo: Setting aside all talks of revenge of one-day series loss to India last year, Sri Lanka's wicketkeeper-batsman Kumar Sangakkara today (17 Aug, 2006) says they would look at the three matches against the neighbours as a fresh start.

Sangakkara says the 6-1 thrashing at the hands of Indians in their land is a thing of past and won't matter when the two sides start their bi-lateral series clash tomorrow (18 Aug, 2006).

"It is obviously nice to get one back. But if you are really concentrating on the end result, you will lose sight of all the processes that go into the game," the 28-year-old keeper tells reporters at a match-eve press conference.

"The 6-1 defeat has gone. Our 11 victories in a row is history as well. We start afresh when we go into this tournament."



"India has always been tough. I don't ever remember playing an easy game against them. So, we are going to take it match by match, play by play and see how we can overcome all the challenges that they present," Sangakkara says.

He hopes that the series has some close fights between the two countries considering the fact that players of both teams were fit and raring to go.

"Sachin is back. Everyone is fighting fit in their camp. Everyone is fighting fit in our camp as well except Marvan Atapattu, So, it is going to be an even contest and whoever performs better on a particular day and wants to win that game just a bit more than the other team will do well," the Sri Lankan says.