• Welcome to the Cricket Web forums, one of the biggest forums in the world dedicated to cricket.

    You are currently viewing our boards as a guest which gives you limited access to view most discussions and access our other features. By joining our free community you will have access to post topics, respond to polls, upload content and access many other special features. Registration is fast, simple and absolutely free so please, join the Cricket Web community today!

    If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, please contact us.

**Official** Sri Lanka in India 2014

YorksLanka

International Debutant
Its games like this which can quite possibly self-destruct Cricket. I mean who would want to be a bowler after what Rohit has done? this is not Cricket at all. That game reminded me of Baseball strangely.
Are you serious? Sharma is a wonderful player with great timing - that's coming from a fan of the team he destroyed!!i our performance may not have seemed like cricket but don't take anything away from a great innings from Sharma...
 

theegyptian

International Vice-Captain
Regarding the 300 by an individual in an ODI innings. I think it becomes a lot harder again if and when they go back to 5 men allowed outside the ring. I really hope they return to that rather than the 4 presently allowed outside the ring after the world cup. It's just a little too easy even for an average bat to score at 10 rpo towards the end of the innings with only 4 men back on the boundary. Takes a little bit of the skill away from the batsmen imo and gives the bowlers on occasion a near insurmountable task.

The two new balls issue is more contentious imo because of its differing affects country by country. In Asia it seems to massively help the batsmen- Reducing reverse swing, and making the ball easier to hit later in the innings whilst having only a minimal effect on the start of the innings. In England though on occasion its a little too favourable for the seam bowler- still it's a more even game than Asia.

Without looking at the stats I'd guess the intro of these two rules has had the biggest impact on Indian ODIs but who knows. Outside of Asia it seems the new balls and fielder regulations have balanced out, whereas they've been particularly beneficial for batting in India.
 
Last edited:

andmark

International Captain
Is theShama innnings worst staying up another at( 02:00) for? the Perera drop was potentially one of the worst drop catches in the the long history of Cricket.

Suspect the Hangover thread is coming in fitting style.
 

Spark

Global Moderator
The **** bowling and fielding were the reasons Rohit got that score. And when Indian bowlers bowled well, they got wickets as expected. Did you watch the match, or just read an article from a hack and came over here to post?
not familiar with energetic hey
 

OverratedSanity

Request Your Custom Title Now!
Tendulkar just said this about this series: "This is the perfect form of match practice and preparations before the Australian tour"

I think he may have officially lost it.
 

weldone

Hall of Fame Member
Tendulkar just said this about this series: "This is the perfect form of match practice and preparations before the Australian tour"

I think he may have officially lost it.
Don't take that literally. What he meant is something like India needed some match practice before the Australia tour and they've made most of it.
 

Daemon

Request Your Custom Title Now!
So we went from our first choice bowlers to second to third and finally Binny and Kulkarni are opening the bowling for India and have the opposition 2 down already. Who says we don't have great depth in pace bowlers?
 

YorksLanka

International Debutant
really glad to see Angie get his maiden ODI ton(he is always the finisher in the team and has always got close but got out trying to push the team ahead), he batted really well and again, good to see Thirrimanne get some form with another half century..really pleased for Mathews to have scored 1000 runs in both tests and ODI's this year- i believe he is the first to do it this year ( good job Rohit was injured for so long LOL)..I cant see any issues with India knocking this off, hopefully we can get a few wickets in the process though...
 

Maximas

Cricketer Of The Year
Is this another 300+ pitch or have we actually put a decent total up? **** our top order is a bit **** atm, how about we start going with something like...

Mahela
Dilshan
Sanga
Matthews
Thirimanne

And see if we can't get off to a decent start once in a while
 

Top