***Official***Match #33 - India vs Sri Lanka - November 2nd - Wankhede (D/N)

[centurymaker]

380+ now possible

 

[Daemon]

69 was his original jersey number. It Has something to do with astrology.

Is the number 69 banned for the Blackcaps?

Close to 100 cricketers have represented New Zealand in limited overs internationals since numbers were added to the backs of players’ shirts, but none have ever worn the number 69. Why not?

thespinoff.co.nz

asstrology maybe

 

[honestbharani]

Shreyas has 96 for the opposite reason?

 

[OverratedSanity]

Baffling that they bowled one short ball to Iyer early on and none since.

 

[HouHsiaoHsien]

Backing SKY to play a gem here

 

[centurymaker]

Baffling that they bowled one short ball to Iyer early on and none since.

Shocking.

SA will bowl 3 bouncers an over. We'll see how he deals with that

 

[Neil Young]

380+ now possible

Up late again, mate.

 

[honestbharani]

Backing SKY to play a gem here

good call.

 

[HouHsiaoHsien]

Backing SKY to play a gem here

I think we can finally conclude he’s quite useless at ODIs

 

[Silver Silva]

Madushanka keeping us in the match by a thread

 

[centurymaker]

Backing SKY to play a gem here

Great Jinx!

 

[Daemon]

Sky's good. Just on a horror run. Averages 40 in his last 6 or so games.

 

[Silver Silva]

I think we can finally conclude he’s quite useless at ODIs

He supposed to be good at the short ball because the SKY is his limit.

 

[centurymaker]

One more wicket and India will struggle to get 330

 

[Burgey]

Looking at that trophy with the past winners on it, SL seems so out of place. Every other nation has at least at some point been a top shelf/ dominant test side through history, but they’ve always been so bog average. I guess in a way it makes their win a bigger achievement.

 

[Molehill]

Looking at that trophy with the past winners on it, SL seems so out of place. Every other nation has at least at some point been a top shelf/ dominant test side through history, but they’ve always been so bog average. I guess in a way it makes their win a bigger achievement.

Wouldn't a team of Jayawardene, Sangakkara, Dilshan, Jayasuriya, Murali, Vaas etc count as a top team?

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

That’s not a wide

 

[honestbharani]

Looking at that trophy with the past winners on it, SL seems so out of place. Every other nation has at least at some point been a top shelf/ dominant test side through history, but they’ve always been so bog average. I guess in a way it makes their win a bigger achievement.

I think 83 Ind, 87 Aus, 96 SL and maybe 2019 Eng were clearly examples of excellent top shelf ODI specialist sides who were nowhere near as good in tests.

 

[Burgey]

Wouldn't a team of Jayawardene, Sangakkara, Dilshan, Jayasuriya, Murali, Vaas etc count as a top team?

Not from a results perspective. They’ve never been a really dominant test side at any given point. When you think back to when they won it, the pattern was teams generally picked a lot of test players in their odi sides.

 

[Burgey]

I think 83 Ind, 87 Aus, 96 SL and maybe 2019 Eng were clearly examples of excellent top shelf ODI specialist sides who were nowhere near as good in tests.

Yeah but I’m talking from a historical perspective. There’s been times when all the other teams that have won it have been a pre-eminent test side. They never have been, but they still won it.