NEW DELHI: India faces the four-yearly dilemma of watching its favorite sport cricket or switching to the Olympics, and this time the Beijing extravaganza appears to be winning.

The Olympics clash with India's cricket tour of Sri Lanka with the iconic Sachin Tendulkar needing just 172 runs to overtake West Indian Brian Lara as the most prolific Test batsman.

Indians can't live without cricket but the younger generation, grown on a steady diet of live world-class sporting action on their television screens, regard the Olympics as a must-watch.