Sri Lanka may have completely annihilated India in the Test series but they had better watch out for the young ODI bunch.

Led by MS Dhoni, this would be a team bent on revenge. This is one lot that does not take too nicely to drubbings. The humiliation inflicted on their childhood heroes in the Test series would wrankle. The disaster in the STAR Cricket Asia Cup final would wrankle.

Ajantha Mendis and Muttiah Muralitharan have been hard to crack. India's ODI team does not boast of players who can solve the M&M riddle with ease. Apart from maybe Gautam Gambhir, Virender Sehwag and the man they call, "Mahi". If these three get going, the heavens would have mercy on the best in the world.

It is of no insignificant worth that Yuvraj Singh has found form with a belligerent 174 in India's warm up game, as he carted a near international attack into smithereens. Suresh Raina would obviously look to continue his fine run from the hey days in Pakistan earlier this year.

Mendis was torn apart by Sehwag in the second Test, so much so that Sri Lankan skipper Mahela Jayawardene chose to keep him in the pockets in the second innings as long as Viru was going berzerk.

What Sehwag did show in the course of his unbeaten 201 in Galle, resplendent with brutality and arrogance was that Mendis is certainly not unplayable, a great talent for sure but not a rocket science to decipher.

Viru read him off the surface, picked up the "carrom ball" that absolutely rattled the Fab Four of India's batting and even smashed him against the spin over deep backward square leg and bang over mid on!

Gambhir too cut throat with his straight bat against Mendis, keeping the "mystery spinner" at bay and largely playing him off the front foot.

Yuvraj and Raina bring up the front of a young India that learns from mistakes and knows how to avenge and draw blood. Add to that Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli and S. Badrinath and what you have is a deadly combination of the fast and the furious, ready to rattle up a confident Lankan attack.

Harbhajan Singh and Zaheer Khan would lend bite and venom to the strike force in the bowling department and with Munaf Patel continuing to impress ever since his IPL renaissance and Pragyan Ojha sure to exploit the slow surface in Dambulla, the venue of the first two ODI's, India are well and truly ready for a severe onslaught on the islanders.

There would be no prizes for working out that the task at hand is difficult. What with the cracker named Sanath Jayasuriya back in the side and Jayawardene and Sangakkara right in the thick of things.

However, there is the phenomenon of youth with India, a phenomenon that won them the T20 World Championships in South Africa less than a year back, a phenomenon that saw them rub mud on the mighty Australians in their own backyard to thunder away to the CB Series triumph.

This phenomenon will be at work again in the emeraland isles in the quintessential town of Dambulla from Monday. So, as Sri Lanka bask in the glory of their magnificient triumph in the Tests, they had better watch out for the Indians. They would be charging at their hosts. Dhoni's Devils are coming!