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meatspx

U19 Cricketer
Why wasn't Gillespie played in the Ireland match (he was fit) if was going to dropped in the deep end against Sri Lanka? Poor planning there from NZ.

Well done Sri Lanka - the best side by far today.

Off to bed now finally!
 
TT Boy

TT Boy

Hall of Fame Member
Walk in the part tonight from Sri Lanka but its interesting to see captain Fleming give the ghost up after ten overs and be solely concerned with damage limitations in regard to net run rate.
 
D

Dasgupta

School Boy/Girl Captain
Flem's had a shocker today from getting it wrong after winning the toss and batting, getting a duck, dropping a catch, bringing on Gillespie at the wrong time, misusing the powerplays. Poor day in all for the skip.
 
Dick Rockett

Dick Rockett

International Vice-Captain
Scaly piscine said:
Sri Lanka trying their best to make what should be a drubbing into a contest.
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Unlike you, the Sri Lankans obviously respect the New Zealand team.

Re: the result. ****!

Well done to the Lankans though - Vaas and Murali have consistently shown they're too good for our boys.
 
Lostman

Lostman

State Captain
great game by SL today, vaas and murali were at there best. Im surprisd NZ didint elect to field first having won the toss and also playing the extra fast bowler. Seemed as if they were trying to avoid facing Murali and jayasuriya batting second.

Anyway I would be really surprised if they dont select Patel for their next game, againt SA any bowler that looks anything like a spinner should always play.
 
Scaly piscine

Scaly piscine

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
16 tins of Spam said:
Unlike you, the Sri Lankans obviously respect the New Zealand team.

Re: the result. ****!

Well done to the Lankans though - Vaas and Murali have consistently shown they're too good for our boys.
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I have respect for NZ til they've played SA. NZ should really go all out to win that one because losing 4 straight games in the World Cup would be pretty ugly.
 
Perm

Perm

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
I only saw the second innings, and right from those first 10-15 minutes I could tell it wans't going to be our day. Full credit to Sri Lanka though, they played a much better game than we did.
 
Raghav

Raghav

International Vice-Captain
KiWiNiNjA said:
Good to see that the weather forecast is looking great. Hooray.

I'm interested in seeing how well Taylor plays tonight. He was troubled by Vaas in NZ, getting out LBW maybe 2 or 3 times IIRC. Hopefully he has corrected the problem technically, if he keeps on playing it across the line, instead of straighter, early on against Vaas I'm gonna rip my hair out.
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Now its time for you to rip your hair cut! Go ahead
 
Sir Redman

Sir Redman

State Vice-Captain
FFS that was dire. Knew it was going to happen too, with so many people talking us up in the media plus our woeful record vs Vaas and Murali I had the feeling we were going to lose. A complete lack of intent shown by our batsman meant we never had SL under any pressure whatsoever. You can't let Dilshan bowl out a maiden in the 46th over FFS. Sure, Fleming got a dud decision but he was always going to get out lbw to Vaas regardless if he was simply looking to scratch around and try to survive. We should have taken far more runs off Fernando and Maharoof in the Powerplays - Vaas was bowling superbly but the others weren't offering much. We let Jayasuriya and Dilshan bowl too cheaply as well - I was going spare watching us continually hit balls straight to midwicket or extra cover when there was a single if they'd hit it to one side. Murali didn't even bowl that well (relatively speaking) I thought - bowled quite a few half volleys and didn't seem to disguise his doosra as well as usual. Didn't get Oram lbw either for probably the first time in history.

You could just tell that it wasn't going to be our day with the ball either after the first couple of overs, what with the leg byes and the inside edges and such. Bond wasn't getting even a hint of swing either and the pitch was pretty docile so they didn't have much trouble seeing him off.

What makes it worse is that I fell asleep after about 20 overs and dreamt that we kept on taking wickets and took the victory. Woke up just as the winning runs were hit and I was not impressed :@
 
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