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***Official*** Sri Lanka in England and Ireland 2014

Maximas

Cricketer Of The Year
Just barely, but even then, throughout the series the pace bowlers are going to get more assistance than the spinners, not only this, but in the last two good overseas wins we've had (Durban 2011 and Dubai 2014) we did with 3 pace bowlers who outbowled their more fancied opponents, you can't fight the conditions
 

viriya

International Captain
Herath was MoM at Durban with 9-128. I'm not saying we should ignore pace but aside from Dubai 2014 there's not much to suggest they will bring us victory. Of course we need the pacers to help bowl out the opposition to a reasonable score in the first innings, but I don't expect a match-winning performance from anyone other than Herath.
 

Maximas

Cricketer Of The Year
The only times Herath has ever run through opposition batsmen outside the SC has been on exceptionally dry pitches in Durban and Sydney, earl season Lords and Headingley won't be quite so spin friendly I'd imagine
 

ohnoitsyou

International Regular
The only times Herath has ever run through opposition batsmen outside the SC has been on exceptionally dry pitches in Durban and Sydney, earl season Lords and Headingley won't be quite so spin friendly I'd imagine
Doesn't need to run through sides though, just repeat his Australia performances and pick up a few key wickets each match to give sri lanka a chance
 

Adders

Cricketer Of The Year
Anyone willing to stick their neck out and call this game??

I reckon England will win........purely on the fact that being a day night game it starts too late in Oz so I wont be watching.
 

flibbertyjibber

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Being a day night game I will no doubt miss most of it as claiming the tv to watch pyjama cricket will go down like a lead balloon when I am going to claim it for the next month for the world cup. Have done my bit though by sitting through Tina's death quietly in Coronation Street this last week.

England to win and I may catch some online if stream is good.
 
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Prince EWS

Global Moderator
The fact that I can't watch or that I'm cursed and Eng always lose when I do?
The fact that you can't watch. I'd never really considered it before but you must miss so much of your own home summer just because the timezones are so different and you (presumably) have a responsibility to sleep normalish hours.
 

flibbertyjibber

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The fact that you can't watch. I'd never really considered it before but you must miss so much of your own home summer just because the timezones are so different and you (presumably) have a responsibility to sleep normalish hours.
So do you. Or are you supporting Australia this week.
 

Adders

Cricketer Of The Year
The fact that you can't watch. I'd never really considered it before but you must miss so much of your own home summer just because the timezones are so different and you (presumably) have a responsibility to sleep normalish hours.
Test matches and day ODI's aren't so bad, it's the day/night ODI's that are impossible. For an Ashes series in England I push the sleep envelope and watch until tea every day on work days and stumps on weekends, for day ODI's easy enough to watch all the 1st innings and then a bit of the second. In fact I'd watch more play of an England Ashes series than one over here as work ****s things up.
 

Prince EWS

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For a living? Is that taxable?
As long as I don't work as a repeatable system, the ATO regards what I do as essentially impossible without inordinate amounts of luck. As a libertarian I've found the perfect tax haven! :p

It's taxable in most other countries though; one of the reasons I haven't moved (see also: laziness).
 

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