12th Match - Afghanistan v Sri Lanka

[Zinzan]

Man, I'd have put any money on that fact those two run-out misses were the only chances Sanga would give for a couple of hours. Huge wicket !!.

Two more & they're really into the soft under belly.

 

[Spark]

Man Afghanistan are genuinely pretty good. Standard of minnows has improved so much in the last decade or so.

At core they look a really good cricket side. Need more polish and experience and they'll be the goods.

 

[smash84]

sangers almost tempted to do a tendulkar crouch there

 

[Pratters]

Man Afghanistan are genuinely pretty good. Standard of minnows has improved so much in the last decade or so.

I know. 96-99 they used to barely compete barring the odd game.

 

[Zinzan]

Jayawardene's in my WC draft, so hopefully he gets an unbeaten ton but runs out of partners at the other end.

 

[Pratters]

Will be huge task for Sri Lanka to win it from here.

 

[James]

The Afghanistan pace attack really has something going for it. Some real quality there. Great to see.

 

[Athlai]

So how about that 10 team WC?

Seriously how good has this WC been already. Just imagine if they didn't have quarter finals and instead only the top 2 teams from each group went through to semis, every single game would have been watched with double the interest.

Australia
NZ
SA
India
Bangladesh
Zimbabwe
Afghanistan
Ireland
Scotland
and one of West Indies, Pakistan, England and Sri Lanka

 

[NUFAN]

Need a best celebrations thread, this is the second magnificent one so far this tournament.

Which was the best? Zim opening bowler vs SA?

 

[cnerd123]

Afghanistan <3

 

[smash84]

Australia
NZ
SA
India
Bangladesh
Zimbabwe
Afghanistan
Ireland
Scotland
and one of West Indies, Pakistan, England and Sri Lanka

nah, bangers don't deserve to be in there

 

[Pratters]

Dawlat is lovely to watch. Nice fluid action. Generates pace.

 

[Neil Pickup]

So how about that 10 team WC?

Seriously how good has this WC been already. Just imagine if they didn't have quarter finals and instead only the top 2 teams from each group went through to semis, every single game would have been watched with double the interest.

Really? We'd be inking in Australia, New Zealand, India and South Africa...

Surely part of the intrigue here is that QF spots 5-8 are totally up for grabs?

 

[viriya]

So I guess virya won't be telling us Sangakkara is under-rated in ODIs today.

On the contrary he's just making sure not to make runs vs minnows and corrupt his record..

 

[Athlai]

Big fan of Dawlat and Hamid, Shapoor isn't the worst in the world. They lose if they don't get SL more than 5 down by the 35th though. Pretty poor death bowlers.

 

[Prince EWS]

So how about that 10 team WC?

Seriously how good has this WC been already. Just imagine if they didn't have quarter finals and instead only the top 2 teams from each group went through to semis, every single game would have been watched with double the interest.

I actually agree with that format idea, but I'm not sure it really would increase the interest of every game. Pakistan v WI for example was really important in the context of qualifying for the quarters but it would have seem far less relevant if only two teams were to qualify.

 

[smash84]

On the contrary he's just making sure not to make runs vs minnows and corrupt his record..

scoring runs against minnows doesn't help your record but going cheaply against them certainly counts against you.

 

[Athlai]

nah, bangers don't deserve to be in there

Games played:

Bangladesh 2

Games lost:

Bangladesh 0

Marmadoola's ability to summon storms is going to take them up the rankings for sure.

 

[Gnske]

Which was the best? Zim opening bowler vs SA?

Absolutely, he mastered the worm to perfection

 

[smash84]

just noticed that karunaratne has an average of 16. Will come good today i reckon