Sparkley
Banned
If this was RSA instead of SL everyone would be saying it.
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**Official Comm Bank Series - Aus, Ind & SL ODI's***
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As I've said all along, McKay is a bowler who bowls pedestrian pace, dead straight, with no movement off the pitch or in the air but he has a pretty good slower ball.
He is genuinely one bowler who gets a great, great majority of his wickets through batsmen error.
Dan Christian could do pretty much the same job, so I'd prefer to have a bowler in the team who can actually bowl people out, not wait for the once in a blue moon occurrence where a bag of batsmen play poorly.
ok, i must admit that my posts were a little too critical. so you are right to certain degree. but watching tharanga waste over after over failing to get single in spread field was just too painful.
uvelocity
International Coach
winners are grinners
Jono
Virat Kohli (c)
Clint McKay > Christian with the ball and the bat.
Today's game is all that matterssssssssssssssssssssssss
uvelocity
International Coach
Noble One
International Vice-Captain
Captains with a degree of common sense, however nothing overly special about his captaincy thus far.
His move to open with Doherty didn't pay off. Lee took the wicket but had no right to bowl a second over to Kulasekara. He underbowled himself despite being the second most dangerous bowler in the innings.
Credit for winning us the match however.
uvelocity
International Coach
you must own a few phones
Jayzamann
International Regular
SA would have imploded chasing 270 on Tuesday.
Ruckus
International Captain
Na that's bull****. All of the McKay hate is ridiculous imo. He isn't an amazing bowler by any means, but he usually has the basics covered pretty well - fairly consistent in a good line and length and gets the ball to move off the seam just enough a lot of the time. Bowls within 130's - 140's, which frankly is fine, and has a good mix up of pace. At the end of the day, in his short ODI career so far, he has achieved exceptional results the vast majority of the time...so credit where it's due.
Lostman
State Captain
Disappointed today, but a good series for SL,
Easily exceeded expectations, by winning 4/7 against Australia in Australia
And Tharanga is still garbage, the top order sucking it does not validate his performance.
122 balls faced and he looked like a new batsmen struggling to get runs the whole time.
Easily exceeded expectations, by winning 4/7 against Australia in Australia
And Tharanga is still garbage, the top order sucking it does not validate his performance.
122 balls faced and he looked like a new batsmen struggling to get runs the whole time.
Jnr.
First Class Debutant
I reckon Warney must've taught him a thing or two about captaincy when they were at Rajasthan Royals.
Jono
Virat Kohli (c)
Desperate reply. You asked me how Kohli went today and I had a relevant reply to give
Your suggestion may or may not be true but I hardly think a small sample size list of recent lost finals proves it or even provides convincing support for it. SL has had a sub-par bowling attack by international standards in the period you refer to; given that, one could argue that their getting to most of those finals in the first place was going above and beyond the logical limits of their capabilities.
The finals themselves - as we have seen so often in football with lower ranked teams who've done well to get to cup finals only to lose inexorably to the likes of Man United, Chelsea, Liverpool and Arsenal - are under such circumstances almost inevitably a step too far. Either it is the superior skill of the opposition by itself or it is a mixture of that and an inner demon telling the underdogs that they've done well just to get there.
Either way, while I think SL are occasionally prone to choking, I've seen nothing to suggest that they do so any more than any other side out there. In fact I think that on the whole they're actually quite strong mentally, but need to shift mindset to the point where they expect to be winning those finals.
Unfortunately for them, so long as they have such a lightweight bowling attack I doubt they will be able to achieve that mental transition, as its usually bowlers who decide such high-pressure encounters. When batsmen have gone into these matches knowing that a couple of them have to play fairly extraordinary innings just for them to have an outside chance, it's tough to call such losses a sign of mental fragility.