*Official* England in Sri Lanka

[Anil]

Not a very auspicious start by England....SL in SL are tough customers.....

 

[LankanPrince]

Ha! Ha! Ha! What did I tell you English guys, England always underestimate Sri Lanka. England were all acting bad because they managed a couple of wins against Bangladesh. After th match Michael Vaughan said he didn't expect the competition would be that tough. Wrong, it looks like Sri Lanka's long break has rejuvenated them. U can't say that England lost just because they played badly, some of u can't appreciate the excellent discipline of the SL bowlers as well as the terrific batting of Sanath and Romesh. Man I have been relishing the moment when England get a damn good thrashing. They are always boasting about some of theirvictories so this is well deserved . Sri Lanka handed out the beats in style and I say well done to our boys who put in a very good effort. I got to say that the fast medium bowler Nuwan Kulasekera looked very good and that Vaas was at his best. I give England my best wishes for the next ODI (yeah right!).

 

[LankanPrince]

Ha! Ha! Ha!. England's performance was truly abysmal. What kind of score is 88 in 46 over?. They were underestimating Sri Lanka before the match because they had built up confidence getting a few wins against Bangladesh. But they recieved a thoroughly deserved, damn good thrashing from the SL boyz. The beats were handed out in some style. SL's bowling was superb with Nuwan Kulasekera and Dinusha Fernando looking very good on debut. The experienced bowlers also looked very good. There are no excuses for Englands performance. They lost not just because of their own performance but to Sri Lanka's superior team effort. Some of the English fans need to appreciate this. Hope this is wake up call for some of the more arrogant England players who are just not good enough. If you want to beat us at home, you have to put in a much better performance than that. I would like to say that I am very happy for SL boys as they put in an excellent team effort and earned well deserved victory. Good luck to our boys in the next ODI.

 

[marc71178]

They are always boasting about some of theirvictories so this is well deserved.

Funny that, but one thing that I would definitely say you can't criticise the English (on here and in the world at large) is that we boast about our victories.

We know that we're not the best side around, and never go OTT when we win.

 

[luckyeddie]

The only thing I can recall Vaughan et al saying about Sri Lanka was that they knew it was going to be tough.

Mind you, that was a particularly inept performance by even England's standards.

One sobering thought - much has been made over the last year regarding England's resurgence as a one-day outfit. Of our 10 worst performances of all time, I think about 6 of them have been in the last 5 years.

 

[luckyeddie]

Ha! Ha! Ha! What did I tell you English guys, England always underestimate Sri Lanka. England were all acting bad because they managed a couple of wins against Bangladesh. After th match Michael Vaughan said he didn't expect the competition would be that tough. Wrong, it looks like Sri Lanka's long break has rejuvenated them. U can't say that England lost just because they played badly, some of u can't appreciate the excellent discipline of the SL bowlers as well as the terrific batting of Sanath and Romesh. Man I have been relishing the moment when England get a damn good thrashing. They are always boasting about some of theirvictories so this is well deserved . Sri Lanka handed out the beats in style and I say well done to our boys who put in a very good effort. I got to say that the fast medium bowler Nuwan Kulasekera looked very good and that Vaas was at his best. I give England my best wishes for the next ODI (yeah right!).

Are you Australian?

 

[PY]

Are you Australian?

Was going to say, you appear to have the subtlety of a rhinoceros on the London Underground....:P

 

[Mr. P]

Hehe....England. :rolleyes: :duh:

 

[PY]

You may laugh now but world domination is within our reach :baddevil: :frog:

 

[Langeveldt]

Damn!

And there was me thinking Rikki Clarke was going to dazzle us all with his all-round prowess......

Lankan Prince... England do definitely not go over the top when they win, I can assure you that... I think you will find that will be our media hyping everything up, they really are shocking for things like that...

 

[LankanPrince]

If my posts are so biased towards Sri Lanka and my name is the LankanPrince I am obviously Australian . The only thing I may share in common with Australians is that I like gloating about England cricket defeats (especially when the SL boys hand out the juicy beatings!).:P

 

[The Argonaut]

One game does not a series make so let's wait until they get thrashed a few more times before sinking the boot in.

Still every side has one of those days. Shouldn't judge them too harshly yet.

 

[marc71178]

Anyone else spot the large dollop of irony being served up here?

 

[luckyeddie]

Anyone else spot the large dollop of irony being served up here?

Very much so.

Anyway, I knew LankanPrince wasn't an Aussie.

No-one stole my sheep.

 

[Richard]

The only thing I can recall Vaughan et al saying about Sri Lanka was that they knew it was going to be tough.

Mind you, that was a particularly inept performance by even England's standards.

One sobering thought - much has been made over the last year regarding England's resurgence as a one-day outfit. Of our 10 worst performances of all time, I think about 6 of them have been in the last 5 years.

England are always making a resurgance as a one-day outfit if you believe the Press. Most of the time they're just regressing further and further, but I really don't think it's possible to get any worse than the present side.

 

[James]

Next years one day series will be interesting between England and New Zealand - two fairly even one-day teams.

 

[luckyeddie]

Next years one day series will be interesting between England and New Zealand - two fairly even one-day teams.

If by 'even' you mean 'rubbish', I'm inclined to agree with you. Now if we can get Kenya involved, that'd be a pretty good triangular series

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

These 'Cricket Chat' James posts must be treasured - few and far between.

 

[Craig]

As I said countless times, but some people here fail to realise is that I will wait until Sri Lanka to make comments on him. As I said, the Flintoff-lover s would make excuses for him.

And his recent feats were against the rubbish bowling line-up of Bangladesh and the pretty substandard batting line-up too.

 

[James]

If by 'even' you mean 'rubbish', I'm inclined to agree with you. Now if we can get Kenya involved, that'd be a pretty good triangular series

LOL - exactly what I was referring to

These 'Cricket Chat' James posts must be treasured - few and far between.

Hehe - certainly are . Still working on some Cricket Web projects which consume 99% of the time I spend working on Cricket Web so I don't check the forum much these days.