12th Match - Afghanistan v Sri Lanka

[Maximas]

That is because no spin "attack" is selected and people should be at the top are pushed at the middle order. Mahela and Dilshan to open, Sanga at three and Mathews at four is the ideal, but the rest is so much poo, that MJ and Mathews have to bat lower down.

The point was that our weaker components within the team ended up being the ones who got us home. Everyone in this team bar Karunaratne is batting in position, Thirimanne as an opener is fine, Mahela has way more utility down at 4 or 5 than anyone else in Sri Lanka so with a functioning opening pair the push for him to open is redundant for mine, despite what happened today.

 

[Maximas]

Uh, why? Afghanistan genuinely played well. It was a great game.

Because despite this we just have to be able to beat them, and we were, so all is good

 

[Maximas]

When has Thisara ever really been "firing" with the ball?

Pakistan home ODIs in 2014, hurries the batsman off the pitch and wins matches for us

 

[Howe_zat]

 

[Jono]

That's ****ing awesome.

 

[G.I.Joe]

AWTA.

On a semi-related note, about time the ICC banned any more dark blue or dark green team kits. Far too many of those in use.

 

[Howe_zat]

AWTA.

On a semi-related note, about time the ICC banned any more dark blue or dark green team kits. Far too many of those in use.

Suddenly the 10-teams thing makes sense

 

[G.I.Joe]

Sometimes I secretly wish for the Netherlands and Zimbabwe to become awesome teams just for the sake of the colour palette.

 

[Howe_zat]

We can sort it out, we just need Afghanistan to start wearing purple or something and Ireland to start playing in orange no wait don't do that do anything but that

 

[kiwiviktor81]

England should wear white, like in the rugby. That would take one blue team out.

 

[Prince EWS]

England should wear white, like in the rugby. That would take one blue team out.

They'd clash with the white ball though.

 

[hendrix]

They'd clash with the white ball though.

That's not clashing, that's coordinating, although it would be a bit too matchy-matchy.

 

[kiwiviktor81]

They'd clash with the white ball though.

Doesn't seem to matter in rugby.

New Zealand wears black in cricket and rugby, South Africa and Ireland green in both, Aussie yellow in both, Scotland blue in both... it just makes sense. And not a creamy white like in Tests but a real white.

 

[hendrix]

The ball does not come towards you as a small, curving 150kph projectile in rugby.

 

[Jarquis]

Making sight-screens white in ODIs is a fair way to balance only having four men outside of the ring IMO

 

[Binkley]

I vaguely recalled that at some point in the late-80s the New Zealand team played a series in white with black highlights. The internet tells me that it was only for one game (against WA in Perth), that the uniform was quickly canned and that:

The kit was controversial and caused a lot of head-scratching as the white ball used in the game blended into the bowlers' clothes like an optical illusion. The white shirt and trousers were consequently retired, not to be seen ever again.

 

[Sarun]

Time for home and away kits. I think some team (probably only England-Wales) already have it.

 

[G.I.Joe]

Home and away kits would need to be modified too. The Indian football home kit is blue and the away kit is white with orange piping. Since white isn't suitable, the ODI away kit would need to be an inversion of the current ODI kit - which would make it identical to the Netherlands ODI kit.

 

[Prince EWS]

Teams having similar kits isn't the problem in cricket that is in association football, rugby, hockey etc due to the defined roles of the different teams. Attack and defence are not fluid. It's nice to have some variation, and it's even nicer when teams don't change their primary colour all the time, but it's not imperative.

 

[G.I.Joe]

I want to feel free to curse at a player without having to check whether or not he's got a bat in his hand, dammit.