If South Africa beat India and make the World T20 final...

[horny warney]

Sri Lanka is a joke cricketing nation. Everyone knows it, you're all just too polite to say it.

You've got FTB batsmen who are a sad parody outside the SC; spinners who are only playing because they missed the pre-season cut for the NY Yankees; and one quick of any note who's too lazy to even have a crack at test cricket. Honestly, even if SL went on to win this, so what? Call us when you've won a test (not a series, a single, miserable test) in Australia. They're a joke.

The rest of the cricketing world only tolerates them because they need the numbers when it comes to test playing countires. They got elevated to full international status too early, and frankly they've done very little to prove they're worthy of it since. Sure they won an ODI WC, but even that developmentally challenged kid in the US shot a few three pointers to win a basketball game for his school. It proves SFA. They're nothing. Nada. Niente.

Wacko, they've had one good bowler in 30 plus years, and two decent batsmen. You had that Chaminda Vaas bloke open the bowling for them. FMD he'd play second grade here - basically a 1990s version of that numpty who opened the bowling for WI last night. Just awful. Imagine the excitement: "Here's Vaas to start the Test here at the WACA - three short mid wickets and a short cover because he isn't fast enough to have an edge carry to slip". How good would it be to face him for a living? You'd retire a millionaire in 18 months. Give the Netherlands or Ireland a shot, they'd do no worse over the same time frame. It actually makes a mockery of international cricket that a team as low as SL is a part of the pre-eminent international competition in the sport.

At least SA is the number one side over a meaningful period at one format of the game. SL are like Pakistan - they were the best ODI side in the world for a random three week period which coincided with a WC. You'd rather watch grass grow than watch SL. In fact, as much as I love cricket, let's be honest. While ever there's SL playing at the top level, you'll always be able to put your feet up as an opposing fan and not really worry one iota that they'll do anything of any importance against your team. If they were an elderly canine they'd have been put down out of mercy by now. They're the failed experiment of world cricket - we always knew the outcome and it was worth a look in the hope we'd turn a heavy sack of useless lead into gold despite years of evidence to the contrary. But at the end of the day they tell us nothing more than we knew about them 30 odd years ago. Just a low outfit. A minnow dressed up as something worthwhile. Honestly, end them as a full international side. They're just a sad postscript to an otherwise interesting international cricketing contest.

G'day fella

What have you been smoking during the past 3 decades mate?

 

[Burgey]

Winfield Grey then Marlboro Lights for some of it. When I wanted a smooth, easy-paced, chilled taste with nothing uneven I smoked Sri Lankan pitch.

 

[Aus boy]

Sri Lanka is a joke cricketing nation. Everyone knows it, you're all just too polite to say it.

You've got FTB batsmen who are a sad parody outside the SC; spinners who are only playing because they missed the pre-season cut for the NY Yankees; and one quick of any note who's too lazy to even have a crack at test cricket. Honestly, even if SL went on to win this, so what? Call us when you've won a test (not a series, a single, miserable test) in Australia. They're a joke.

The rest of the cricketing world only tolerates them because they need the numbers when it comes to test playing countires. They got elevated to full international status too early, and frankly they've done very little to prove they're worthy of it since. Sure they won an ODI WC, but even that developmentally challenged kid in the US shot a few three pointers to win a basketball game for his school. It proves SFA. They're nothing. Nada. Niente.

Wacko, they've had one good bowler in 30 plus years, and two decent batsmen. You had that Chaminda Vaas bloke open the bowling for them. FMD he'd play second grade here - basically a 1990s version of that numpty who opened the bowling for WI last night. Just awful. Imagine the excitement: "Here's Vaas to start the Test here at the WACA - three short mid wickets and a short cover because he isn't fast enough to have an edge carry to slip". How good would it be to face him for a living? You'd retire a millionaire in 18 months. Give the Netherlands or Ireland a shot, they'd do no worse over the same time frame. It actually makes a mockery of international cricket that a team as low as SL is a part of the pre-eminent international competition in the sport.

At least SA is the number one side over a meaningful period at one format of the game. SL are like Pakistan - they were the best ODI side in the world for a random three week period which coincided with a WC. You'd rather watch grass grow than watch SL. In fact, as much as I love cricket, let's be honest. While ever there's SL playing at the top level, you'll always be able to put your feet up as an opposing fan and not really worry one iota that they'll do anything of any importance against your team. If they were an elderly canine they'd have been put down out of mercy by now. They're the failed experiment of world cricket - we always knew the outcome and it was worth a look in the hope we'd turn a heavy sack of useless lead into gold despite years of evidence to the contrary. But at the end of the day they tell us nothing more than we knew about them 30 odd years ago. Just a low outfit. A minnow dressed up as something worthwhile. Honestly, end them as a full international side. They're just a sad postscript to an otherwise interesting international cricketing contest.

Australia lost to India 4 NIL in subcontinent. Not even came to world t20 WC finals. If I remember correct Sri Lanka did excellent in AUS conditions in ODIS and t20s. As an Aussie sorry to say we are ****ting bricks on spin. After Warney ZERO classy spinner we had. Mcgill and Hogg are decent.

I reckon Kulasekara is one of the best in limited overs and he swings a mile. On his day he's deadly. Sour grapes for us, How on earth you forgetting that Slinga fella smoking with his deadly yorkers, SL isn't a joke, Felt AUS is a JOKE after big bash packed hitters and won only against Bangladesh,

Gabba I thought we wouldv'e all out under 50 runs, Thank god to that final partnership it wasn't the case.

 

[horny warney]

Aussies are fast track bullies. Guys like Watto **** bricks in the SC when they see a spinner.

 

[horny warney]

Winfield Grey then Marlboro Lights for some of it. When I wanted a smooth, easy-paced, chilled taste with nothing uneven I smoked Sri Lankan pitch.

Anyway, why can't Aussies play T20 cricket?

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

Ah. This thread has turned into a masquerade ball!! Where's the waitress dishing out brandies. I need a drink.

 

[Burgey]

Anyway, why can't Aussies play T20 cricket?

Dunno. Too many Victorians in the team is my first thought.

It took a few years before Australia took it seriously, which was a mistake. But they should be better at it by now.

 

[Aus boy]

Ah. This thread has turned into a masquerade ball!! Where's the waitress dishing out brandies. I need a drink.

Don't you worry son - Strum Waltz Matilda with me...

 

[Jono]

Holy **** my thread has been completely hijacked and **** upon.

Burgey this is on you. This thread should have been a comical way to make fun of the choking nature of both these teams. Not a white man vs. brown man war.

ffs.

 

[horny warney]

Dunno. Too many Victorians in the team is my first thought.

It took a few years before Australia took it seriously, which was a mistake. But they should be better at it by now.

I've heard this many a time now.....

I reckon you can't handle the mysterious blokes like Narine, Ashwin, Mendis and co. Your boys are just good at hooking and pulling...terrible at playing spin.

 

[Aus boy]

Dunno. Too many Victorians in the team is my first thought.

It took a few years before Australia took it seriously, which was a mistake. But they should be better at it by now.

Losing to Kiwis was the hardest yard. Almost lost the warm up match. Big bash for nothing in the end. 3 straight losses. Fielding piss poor, Not good enough in world stage. Are we?

 

[horny warney]

Think about it....only one seamer in the T20 bowlers list.....rest are all spinners. Fast Track Bullies can't handle this. This is a FACT !!!!!

 

[Burgey]

Australia lost to India 4 NIL in subcontinent. Not even came to world t20 WC finals. If I remember correct Sri Lanka did excellent in AUS conditions in ODIS and t20s. As an Aussie sorry to say we are ****ting bricks on spin. After Warney ZERO classy spinner we had. Mcgill and Hogg are decent.

I reckon Kulasekara is one of the best in limited overs and he swings a mile. On his day he's deadly. Sour grapes for us, How on earth you forgetting that Slinga fella smoking with his deadly yorkers, SL isn't a joke, Felt AUS is a JOKE after big bash packed hitters and won only against Bangladesh,

Gabba I thought we wouldv'e all out under 50 runs, Thank god to that final partnership it wasn't the case.

I think you miss the point. As I mentioned in my intial post, even the impaired kid came onto the basketball court and shot some three pointers in that high school game in the States.

You quite rightly point out Australia's struggles in India, even in the format which matters most to them, and to all true lovers of the game. But Sri Lanka has had 30 years or more to accomplish something around the world at cricket. Thirty years! Humans went from propellor aircraft to walking on the moon in that time, yet Sri Lanka has done **** all when all they've had to do is win a series in a few places they aren't comfortable in.

Don't you find that embarrassing?

 

[horny warney]

Ah. This thread has turned into a masquerade ball!! Where's the waitress dishing out brandies. I need a drink.

I wouldn't give an xxx matey.

Think spin...if you want to win something.

Muirhead..good prospect but your lot played 4 pacies in the last match. Stupid or what? lol

 

[Dan]

I can imagine what Muloghonto is like in real-life, then, if he isn't actually a 71.1cm tall piece of wood with a hole drilled across the top of his metaphorical skull: Mulo sits at his desk, feeling slightly constipated after he was forced to eat white bread like a mere plebeian, the office suffering a crippling shortage of wholemeal-multigrain sandwiches. As he tries to work the problem out with a pencil, he notices a smudge on his glasses.He removes them, and stares at the spot intently - despite his vision being the equivalent of the town drunk, whose methylated spirits intake somehow had yet to kill him. Slowly, meticulously he lowers his glasses towards his shirttail, before remembering his specialised cleaning cloth for exactly this purpose. He scrubs, furiously, at the smudge until it is completely eradicated from the lens. As he puts them back on, he notices that his vision is still slightly blurred. He does not attempt to remove the smudge again, for it is cannot possibly be there - the mighty Muloghonto never fails in a task! Mulo readjusts his fedora, and turns back to the paper. He's working on a statistical equation - crunching the numbers for the elderly Economics professor who hired him to the Fedora Studies team as a research underling. He completes his work, picks up the page of data, and takes them to the elderly man's office to report his results. The professor, somewhat senile and with a conservative streak that would make Tony Abbott blush, scans over the work. "You've made an error here, Mr. Muloghonto. You see, you've written here that two and two make five. That's thrown the whole dataset off, and the results are wrong. Your conclusion says that the fedora is a positive influence on society!" "I'll have you know," Mulo replies, "that my experience with mathematics has underpinned my career for the past epoch; far longer than you have been publishing papers on the effects of fedoras on society. I can assure you that there is no mistake in my work. As a fedora-wearer of the highest order, I can assure you that all of the data you have meticulously compiled, over the length of your career, is incorrect. Not all of us are like that, I'm a nice gent; don't blame all fedora wearers for the sins of the few." "Run the numbers again," the Professor sighs, obviously used to his underling's method of speech. "And by the way, you have a smudge on your glasses."

 

[Aus boy]

Hogg was good - But not good enough, Faulkner ruined us. Fake finisher. I'd respect Bevan over this fake match winner,

 

[Flem274*]

As I told the mods, I still think Muloghonto is a tool they're using for our two minutes hate. To prevent infighting they're giving us a common enemy.

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

Don't you worry son - Strum Waltz Matilda with me...

Firstly, it's Waltzing Matilda. Secondly, I'm about as Australian as you/horny warney.

 

[horny warney]

Hogg was good - But not good enough, Faulkner ruined us. Fake finisher. I'd respect Bevan over this fake match winner,

Hoogg...the grandad? No way.

Prefer to see my idol...Sir Shane instead.

 

[Aus boy]

I think you miss the point. As I mentioned in my intial post, even the impaired kid came onto the basketball court and shot some three pointers in that high school game in the States.

You quite rightly point out Australia's struggles in India, even in the format which matters most to them, and to all true lovers of the game. But Sri Lanka has had 30 years or more to accomplish something around the world at cricket. Thirty years! Humans went from propellor aircraft to walking on the moon in that time, yet Sri Lanka has done **** all when all they've had to do is win a series in a few places they aren't comfortable in.

Don't you find that embarrassing?

Why should I find that embarrassing. I think you are an Aussie but who originated from your an curry muncher Indian family.

You sounds like a fake Aussie. So suck on it.If I remember correctly Sri Lanka won the world cup in 1996 and came to 5 world title finals. For a country at that amount of population it was a great achievement imo.