*Official* Sri Lanka’s Tour of the West Indies-2021- All Format

[Beamer]

Didn't gayle just have one of his best ever ipls after looking finished the entire year before? He didn't get picked in last years hundred draw because he looked so bad. Started ok the bench for the first few ipl games and his team kept losing so they bought him in and he almost got them to the finals along with kl Rahul. This was only 5 months ago or so. He isn't done he has just had 3 low ipl scores.
His fielding on the other hand is completely shot lol

I'd keep him in the squad for sure. Just worried about some of his dismissals, like my siding a slow straight ball from Sandakan.

 

[Himannv]

I'm sure our legends team will do better than this lot.

 

[Beamer]

Looking forward to this ODI series. Our batting is in reasonable shape, apart from the need to rotate strike slightly better. But our bowling was awful pre-pandemic (apart from Alzarri) and there are definitely places in our attack that are up for grabs. My team for today is:

Evin Lewis
Shai Hope (wk)
Darren Bravo
Nicholas Pooran
Kieron Pollard
Kyle Mayers
Jason Holder
Fabian Allen
Romario Shepherd
Alzarri Joseph
Akheil Hossein

Though they might well opt for Jason Mohammed ahead of Mayers as he brings reasonable part time off spin to the table and is a right handed batsman. I just fear the strike rate issues that would be cause by a Hope, Bravo, Mohammed combo.

Key might well be how on earth we play Hasaranga.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

I love how every post that @windiescricket posted up yesterday was of the batsmen practicing hitting the long ball...& in the comments most of them had a common theme: rotate the strike.

Windies fans are smart. We know BS. The media person for Windies cricket should be shamed.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

With two left handers at the crease...I’d expect at least one of the bowlers to come from around the wicket. Nothing like that so far.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

That was a poor over from Alzarri. Too predictable, the batsmen waited and smacked him for three boundaries.

And yet no one bowling from around the wicket

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Where’s an off spinner when you need one?

So far these guys are looking way too comfortable against the bowling that has been dished out against them.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Sri Lanka’s running between the wickets: ?

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Gunathilaka on nervous 49

 

[cnerd123]

That's phenomenal from Pollard.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

That’s a bit of brilliance from pollard.
Caught and bowled. It’s up there with the best c&b I’ve seen

 

[cnerd123]

Nissanka hype

@Prince EWS are you watching

 

[Daemon]

That was completely unintentional.

The law says willful. Pretty harsh decision.

 

[cnerd123]

huh, not often you see that

I think intent does not matter under current laws but would have to double check

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Obstructing the field...spicy.

Whether he did that intentionally is up for debate.

 

[TheJammyTurtle]

Very harsh decision but wasn’t Stokes given out under the same circumstances (accidental) a few years ago? Kind have to stick by that precedent then I guess.

Having home umpires hardly helps in that situation either.Not sure how it was given soft signal out but hard to overturn it when that happens.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

The man clearly didn’t knew where the ball was...it is a very harsh decision to give out.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Imagine the furore if this was against an Indian batsman in India.

 

[Daemon]

haha pollard should've just mankaded him there

 

[Himannv]

Imagine the furore if this was against an Indian batsman in India.

I imagine there'd be a furore if it happened to most teams. But since it happened to Sri Lanka, no one cares - not even Sri Lanka.