***Official*** Commonwealth Bank Tri-Series 2007-08

[ret]

Kumar picks up his 2nd .... SL 77/3, Jayawardene is back in the hut

cheers

 

[rama_v]

Kumar picks up his 2nd .... SL 77/3, Jayawardene is back in the hut

cheers

Kumar gets his third.

 

[ret]

Kumar is on fire .... SL 81/4, Chamara departs

cheers

 

[rama_v]

Oh dear, that wasnt a great shot. Good tight bowling by Pathan though.

 

[ret]

Pathan picks of Jayasuriya .... SL 81/5 .... what a turnaround, from 72/2 to 81/5

cheers

 

[jeevan]

Pathan & Praveen double bowling change at the end of 11th over has resulted in
12-3-30-4 since then. 61/1 -> 91-5 with RR dropping from 5.5 to just less than 4.

Ouch! Ishant comes back, takes Dilshan LBW, SL now 93/6.

Dilshan has done well against India usually.

 

[GotSpin]

Not in Bellerive. It's like the 'Gabba, the cloud cover can fool you into thinking it's going to swing. The pitch and that the cloud cover is generally high in Tassie negates any movement. Should always bat first and SL are showing why.

You were saying

Couldn't help myself

 

[ret]

SL loses Dilshan .... 6 down for 93

cheers

 

[jeevan]

Dont know which is more surreal: SL 93/7 or India having bowled 26 overs and all of them from seamers. No slow bowling yet.

 

[ret]

3rd strike by Ishant .... Vaas is history, SL 93/7

cheers

 

[JBH001]

Can you stop saying cheers please?

Its annoying, and at times like this, downright insulting.

Cheers.

 

[ret]

Can you stop saying cheers please?

Its annoying, and at times like this, downright insulting.

Cheers.

hey .... thats my style, i write 'cheers' after every post .... i don't know why should that be insulting?

btw, i guess u r a SL supporter but then what would u do if say i were celebrating in a stadium with my friends, would u say the same thing? if not then grow up

anyways, 100 up for SL

cheers

 

[jeevan]

In the prior two matches against SL, Indian bowlers had taken only 2 wickets and 3 wickets (there were 3 run outs in addition). Certainly guided the team selection today and it has paid off so well - Praveen Kumar certainly was the beneficiary of this and he is 8-2-20-3.

 

[Top_Cat]

How do you explain Hilfenhaus getting so many wickets... Ian Chappell was mentioning about him getting 60 wickets and how there is always swing here only 10 minutes back.

Hilf bowled well last year. Really well. As did Colin Miller when he took 67 wickets in a season. This year he hasn't bowled very well and both he and Tassie have struggled. He's averaging about 50 with the ball and no 5-fers. No matter the conditions (within reason), good bowling takes wickets.

Yes there is swing most times of year but hardly outrageous. I guess you'd call it 'useful'? Bowlers who've done well at Bellerive historically have been your McGrath-type bowlers.

You were saying

Couldn't help myself

I can't help it if the SL batsmen didn't use perfect batting conditions. Some of the shots today...... from experienced players too. Jayasuriya's especially. Bit dirty if you were Jayawardene, though; absolutely spanked his cut shot and Sharma reeled it in somehow.

 

[duffer]

Holy crap. Get homw and Lanka are in some strife. Is it another tough deck or are India well on top?

 

[Top_Cat]

Holy crap. Get homw and Lanka are in some strife. Is it another tough deck or are India well on top?

Nah, the deck is a road. Solid Indian bowling coupled with some horrible shots. Sharma has bowled quite well, the new bloke bowled a heavy ball and got wickets as a result.

 

[JBH001]

hey .... thats my style, i write 'cheers' after every post .... i don't know why should that be insulting?

btw, i guess u r a SL supporter but then what would u do if say i were celebrating in a stadium with my friends, would u say the same thing? if not then grow up

anyways, 100 up for SL

cheers

If thats your "style" (or whatever passes for it) I guess you cant help it.

And I would have thought the smiley would have indicated that I did not mean ill at all.

Time for me to use the ignore option for the first time in almost 4 years! Yikes!

Btw please dont tell me to "grow up". You dont know how old I am.

 

[duffer]

Nah, the deck is a road. Solid Indian bowling coupled with some horrible shots. Sharma has bowled quite well, the new bloke bowled a heavy ball and got wickets as a result.

Cool. Just saw Ishu's wickets. That Perrera delivery was a peach.

8 down now. Another 4-fer for Sharma.

 

[Top_Cat]

Cool. Just saw Ishu's wickets. That Perrera delivery was a peach.

8 down now. Another 4-fer for Sharma.

Yeah it's amazing to see a bloke improve right in front of your eyes so quickly. He came here as basically an in-swing bowler and will leave the country as one of the brightest (and quickest) fast bowling talents in the world.

 

[ret]

If thats your "style" (or whatever passes for it) I guess you cant help it.

And I would have thought the smiley would have indicated that I did not mean ill at all.

Time for me to use the ignore option for the first time in almost 4 years! Yikes!

Btw please dont tell me to "grow up". You dont know how old I am.

well, i din't know what u meant in ur post coz usally i m multi-tasking so don't get time to ponder on what a use of smily indicates, i read a post in secs and reply in secs

anyways, you could imply the same for my comment to 'grow up', [only thing is that the smiley wasn't used]

back to cric, Malinga is picked up by Sharma, his 4th .... FoW 139/8

cheers