*Official* Sri Lanka Tour of New Zealand 2018/19

[BeeGee]

How dare you imply any of those things about the Kaneh in that sentence.

Bowling has been a bit inaccurate since the three early wickets though.

Apart from Southee, the bowling has been poor. Need more bouncers!

 

[straw man]

Apart from Southee, the bowling has been poor. Need more bouncers!

Boult's been ok and kept the runs down I guess. A couple of streaky moments for SL against the short ball, but overall they've played it well and taken plenty of runs from it.

 

[BeeGee]

Yeah, more of that.

 

[Flem274*]

mathews is mixing the sublime with the villiage today. still there tho

karunaratne is a gun

 

[TT Boy]

He won’t catch Kohli but Karunaratne isn’t far away from being the 2nd most prolific test batsman over the past two years. Likes New Zealand as well, only place outside home and Zimbabwe where he has scored a test hundred.

 

[straw man]

Karunaratne averages 51 against us. He's a good batsman.

NZ will still feel they're two wickets away from getting into the tail (Dickwella being someone who's barely played in NZ before).

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Starting to remind me of the Shakib and M Rahim partnership from a couple of years ago

 

[BeeGee]

I find your lack of bouncers disturbing.

 

[BeeGee]

125 for 3. SL just haven't got the hang of this.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Mathews looks like he's been on the mend a bit recently. Nice to see, he's one of my favourites to watch when he gets going.

 

[straw man]

Good innings but NZ will be satisfied to have bought that wicket with the short-pitched attack.

 

[Gnske]

That's why you don't pitch it full Neil. Ever.

 

[NZTailender]

If you were to define their captaincy styles militarily McCullum was the guy who used aggressive human wave bayonet charges to overwhelm the enemy taking heavy losses along the way to get results whereas Kane is the guy who plans out a coordinated air-sea-land precision strike on a target.

 

[Maximas]

Would definitely have taken 4/170 at tea had it been offered this morning, I'm still concerned that the two most experienced batsmen have literally scored all the runs, if none of them goes on to get a hundred that would be a genuinely poor result. Looks like a bowl em out and stack em on kind of pitch where the team batting 2nd tries to get so far in front that they can't lose

 

[randycricfreak]

He won’t catch Kohli but Karunaratne isn’t far away from being the 2nd most prolific test batsman over the past two years. Likes New Zealand as well, only place outside home and Zimbabwe where he has scored a test hundred.

His best of 196 came in the pink ball test Vs Pakistan in the UAE.

 

[straw man]

Gee Dilmah tea party has been running 17 years - great work by them to keep the sponsorship going.

I'm going to go have a Dilmah tea now.

This message was proudly sponsored by Dilmah tea.

 

[randycricfreak]

Mathews looks like he's been on the mend a bit recently. Nice to see, he's one of my favourites to watch when he gets going.

He was dropped for the England LOI leg by Hathurusinghe post Asia Cup woes, due to poor running between the wickets and match fitness. Afterwards he prolly hit the nearby gym for the first time since he his mid 20s.

That's why you see a fitter Mathews now.

Awful test record since that glorious 2 years of 2014/2015 he had. Hopefully he can ton-up today.

 

[Migara]

Would definitely have taken 4/170 at tea had it been offered this morning, I'm still concerned that the two most experienced batsmen have literally scored all the runs, if none of them goes on to get a hundred that would be a genuinely poor result. Looks like a bowl em out and stack em on kind of pitch where the team batting 2nd tries to get so far in front that they can't lose

Either Mathews or Chandimal or both have to get a daddy hundred. That means Dikwella and Dilruwan have to bat out of their skins. I am still wrorried of Dikwella to play genuine pace. I always though Kusal Janth is a much better player of pace, and additionally he intimidated bowlers more than ND.

 

[Maximas]

Gee that was poor

 

[Maximas]

Matthews to play one of his classic tail marshalling knocks now