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*Official* Sri Lanka Tri-Series

BeeGee

International Captain
If Ryder is sober, I'd bat him at three and open with McCullum and Watling.
McCullum attacks and Watling looks to bat through and anchor the innings.
Of course it's early days for Watling, but the kid looks good so far.
 

_Ed_

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We were 50 runs short in the end.
Yeah. We were never going to get to a really competitive total after having two ducks in our top four, and with Hopkins, of all people, at six.

Take nothing away from SL, though. Excellent performance from them and they totally deserved the win.

A few positives for us - Watling was impressive and I liked how he remained calm while wickets tumbled around him, McCullum was pretty good with both bat and ball, and Mills is back in top form.
 

Jezroy

State Captain
Yeah. We were never going to get to a really competitive total after having two ducks in our top four, and with Hopkins, of all people, at six.

Take nothing away from SL, though. Excellent performance from them and they totally deserved the win.

A few positives for us - Watling was impressive and I liked how he remained calm while wickets tumbled around him, McCullum was pretty good with both bat and ball, and Mills is back in top form.
AWTA - all of it. I'm surprised at how McCullum is coming along actually. I thought he was an honest journeyman at best - but he has done pretty well.

Mills is looking great - seen has record recently? 168 wickets in 112 games. Ave 25.91 Econ 4.67. Great numbers.

And Hopkins at 6? Urgh.
 

Hurricane

Hall of Fame Member
If McCullum had better FC bowling stats I would back him for inclusion in the test team as well. We could use his late order batting.
 

Zinzan

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At times like this, you contemplate a nation with a per capita income of 4.7k beating a nation with a per capita income of 29k. Sri Lanka are just a bit awesome.

:ph34r:
SL are awesome given their limited resources (population, status of cricket, economy etc etc), no doubt about it. Right up with Australia, WI & NZ in that respect.
 

Himannv

Hall of Fame Member
I've seen this a few times now and yet have no idea what it means. Would anyone mind cluing me in on it?
I was lost a few times in the beginning as well. Figured it out after some thought.

They use a couple of others like DWTA which is disagree with the above and whatnot. I think there's a full list of it somewhere on this site. Possibly in the Site Discussion section.
 

Shri

Mr. Glass
Well as I know practice wickets should be a sapmle of conditions of the actual wicket. In Dambulla it is juicy with bit of uneven bounce. I am not sure why Dhoni is whining over lack of flat practice wickets. This is SL after all, and we don't produce (or we don't have ability to produce, which ever makes you happy) flat wickets.
Lol, I am guessing you just read the headlines in that article.

The pitches reportedly hadn't been mown and were damp, resulting in balls rearing up from a good length, and bowlers' run-ups weren't firm as well.
Maybe he just doesn't want another one of his pace bowlers to get injured.
 

honestbharani

Whatever it takes!!!
lol.. how many more injuries do we need?


Dhoni - injured
Nehra - injured
Ishant - injured
Yuvraj - sick
Mithun - injured/sick
Karthik - injured



Why don't we just send all these guys home to recover and send out the replacements? Seriously, so what we put out a team that will be bashed by even the minnows... Gotta take care of the players, right?
 

Zinzan

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lol.. how many more injuries do we need?


Dhoni - injured
Nehra - injured
Ishant - injured
Yuvraj - sick
Mithun - injured/sick
Karthik - injured



Why don't we just send all these guys home to recover and send out the replacements? Seriously, so what we put out a team that will be bashed by even the minnows... Gotta take care of the players, right?
Yup, sucks for both India & NZ that SL are pretty much at full strength
 

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