**Official** Sri Lanka in England / Scotland - 2011

[hazsa19]

Maybe he was fed up of the **** bowling. I'm fed up a bit.

 

[Lostman]

Not so fast.

knew someone would point that out

 

[vcs]

How many overs in this game were lost to weather? Think England would have fancied winning this one if they'd got in the full 450 overs.

Seems around 80 overs short by my calculations.

 

[Prince EWS]

Maharoof has got to go. Averaging 6 with the bat and 173 with the ball this series and his overall Test figures across 20+ Tests aren't much better. Number eight batsman and fifth bowler at absolute best; prank cricketer. Chandimal has to come in for him and if Dilshan's injured then Thirimanne should come in as well.

I can definitely see Sri Lanka playing Mendis though which means either Perera or Maharoof will continue to bat 7 to ensure they still have three seamers. Don't know which is the less of those two evils tbh.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Well done SL on surviving. Showed more fight this time.

Looking forward to the game at Rose Bowl, will be interesting to see how the pitch there plays.

 

[Jacknife]

Shame that nearly a days play was lost to weather because I reckon we'd have won that, especially with another days worth of cricket on the pitch.

 

[Lostman]

Maharoof has got to go. Averaging 6 with the bat and 173 with the ball this series and his overall Test figures across 20+ Tests aren't much better.

Maharoof and Herath. You know its bad when I actually cant find a reason to drop Fernando.

 

[TopCat]

With this Test being drawn and dominated by batting (and poor bowling), I looked into the results at Lords as I tought there were lots of draws in the recent past. There were more draws than wins but not as disproportionate a ratio as I expected tbh.

In the past 5 years there have been 12 Tests at Lords.

Seven draws vs. 5 wins

58% drawn matches.

The England wins were against West Indies, Australia, Bangladesh and a makeshift Pakistan. Australia also beat Pakistan in July last year. So the victories were not exactly against the strongest teams in the world (Aus excepted).

 

[PhoenixFire]

Maharoof has got to go. Averaging 6 with the bat and 173 with the ball this series and his overall Test figures across 20+ Tests aren't much better. Number eight batsman and fifth bowler at absolute best; prank cricketer. Chandimal has to come in for him and if Dilshan's injured then Thirimanne should come in as well.

I can definitely see Sri Lanka playing Mendis though which means either Perera or Maharoof will continue to bat 7 to ensure they still have three seamers. Don't know which is the less of those two evils tbh.

Didn't Maharoof smash Warne around in the IPL this year?

 

[Jacknife]

With this Test being drawn and dominated by batting (and poor bowling), I looked into the results at Lords as I tought there were lots of draws in the recent past. There were more draws than wins but not as disproportionate a ratio as I expected tbh.

In the past 5 years there have been 12 Tests at Lords.

Seven draws vs. 5 wins

58% drawn matches.

The England wins were against West Indies, Australia, Bangladesh and a makeshift Pakistan. Australia also beat Pakistan in July last year. So the victories were not exactly against the strongest teams in the world (Aus excepted).

How so? That team had, Asif, Amir and Yousuf in it.

 

[Howe_zat]

With this Test being drawn and dominated by batting (and poor bowling), I looked into the results at Lords as I tought there were lots of draws in the recent past. There were more draws than wins but not as disproportionate a ratio as I expected tbh.

In the past 5 years there have been 12 Tests at Lords.

Seven draws vs. 5 wins

58% drawn matches.

The England wins were against West Indies, Australia, Bangladesh and a makeshift Pakistan. Australia also beat Pakistan in July last year. So the victories were not exactly against the strongest teams in the world (Aus excepted).

And considering Australia put in a surprisingly pathetic batting collapse in the second match innings before still making 400-odd in the 4th; this would suggest it takes an inept batting performance to lose at Lord's these days.

Didn't Maharoof smash Warne around in the IPL this year?

No, he's been playing for Lancashire this year.

 

[Howe_zat]

How so? That team had, Asif, Amir and Yousuf in it.

They batted atrociously for almost every innings in that series, Lord's no exception. It took an incredible bowling display from Amir to run through England's order, and even then they couldn't finish it off when the cloud cover went away.

 

[Jacknife]

They batted atrociously for almost every innings in that series, Lord's no exception. It took an incredible bowling display from Amir to run through England's order, and even then they couldn't finish it off when the cloud cover went away.

Yes, I agree but a lot of that was to do with how well Jimmy bowled and Swanny to a certain extent. But he said a makeshift side, how was it?

 

[hazsa19]

Think what we might have witnessed on a deteriorating Headingley or OT pitch

 

[vcs]

How so? That team had, Asif, Amir and Yousuf in it.

That was the spot-fixing game, wasn't it?

 

[Howe_zat]

Yes, I agree but a lot of that was to do with how well Jimmy bowled and Swanny to a certain extent. But he said a makeshift side, how was it?

"Makeshift" does seem unfair. But there's really no reason why Younis Khan missed that tour, and they were never really full strength with hacks like Imran Farhat in the top order.

Anyway, I was just mentioning that Lord's never seems to get a result any more without a catastrophic collapse.

 

[Jacknife]

That was the spot-fixing game, wasn't it?

Yes, I think it the story broke the last day of the game.

 

[Jacknife]

"Makeshift" does seem unfair. But there's really no reason why Younis Khan missed that tour, and they were never really full strength with hacks like Imran Farhat in the top order.

Anyway, I was just mentioning that Lord's never seems to get a result any more without a catastrophic collapse.

Agree and teams tend to score quite heavily in their second dig, which is rare.

 

[GIMH]

Who got MoM?

 

[Prince EWS]

Maharoof.

















Dilshan