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

Outswinger@Pace

Outswinger@Pace

International 12th Man
Migara said:
Senanayke is a real gem when it comes to off breaks. He's nearly 6' 2" tall, gives it a serious rip and very bullish in attitude. SL domestic bowlers' stats should be taken with a pinch of salt because they play on **** pitches and should add 5 - 6 runs to it to have a meaning. Still with that his stats are impressive. More impressive has been his demolition jobs against A teams (Aussie and Pakistani), and will be certain to dish it out to England Lions this season at least in one innings.
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Sounds very promising. Are you sure there isn't more to it? I mean it's rather surprising that such an obvious talent hasn't been selected so far.

Coz whatever be the level of cricket, a spinner picking up a wicket every 7 overs he sends down has to be ridiculously good. Notwithstanding the ****ed up pitches that you talk about. Such strike-rates are unheard of outside of games on the balcony with a tennis ball! :laugh: Why isn't there a massive outrage among SL supporters?

This guy, for all we know, could be decimating international sides but they refuse to give him a chance. Pathetic!
 
MW1304

MW1304

Cricketer Of The Year
18 year old Tymal Mills, in his first game, with his first wicket, makes the breakthrough for Essex against the touring Sri Lankans.

Not bad to have Piranha as your first first-class wicket. WAG.
 
Migara

Migara

International Coach
Outswinger@Pace said:
Sounds very promising. Are you sure there isn't more to it? I mean it's rather surprising that such an obvious talent hasn't been selected so far.

Coz whatever be the level of cricket, a spinner picking up a wicket every 7 overs he sends down has to be ridiculously good. Notwithstanding the ****ed up pitches that you talk about. Such strike-rates are unheard of outside of games on the balcony with a tennis ball! :laugh: Why isn't there a massive outrage among SL supporters?

This guy, for all we know, could be decimating international sides but they refuse to give him a chance. Pathetic!
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Some people are skeptical about his action, but looks much cleaner than Randiv's. The pathetic part from the admins is that, if he had a suspect action, they should have acted a long time back. This guy was the best FC bowler for four straight seasons.

The other problem is that SL sports media men are a equally ******** as selectors if not more. The main topic on WC squad was exclusion of Jayasuriya, but not the exclusion of Vaas, Chandimal or Randiv or inclusion of Kapugedara or Silva. Most of them don't know that there is such an awesome spinner. Hathurusinghe knew this man's potential, but he has broken up with SLC. If ot for idiotic selectors, Senanayake would be knocking on doors of any test side of the world.

Anyway, English will have a chance to see him bowling. S'nanayake, Prasanna and Weerakoon will form a quality spin attack for SL A later this summer.
 
Spark

Spark

Global Moderator
Given the standard of bowling he seems to be facing I'm not sure how relevant this is. Still, time in the middle is time in the middle.
 
Howe_zat

Howe_zat

Audio File
5 wickets gone for 12 runs in the Essex game.

Reece Topley got Sangakkara, P Jayawardena and Randiv this morning, ended up with 4/23 from 14 overs.

Hell of a collapse from the Sri Lankans but I'm not sure if it was pre-declaration slogging. 337/9d now.
 
Howe_zat

Howe_zat

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A few players who made their international debut after Sanath Jayasuria:

Nasser Hussain
Brian Lara
Saeed Anwar
Mark Waugh
Javagal Srinath
Alec Stewart
Chris Harris

It was a long time ago is kind of what I'm saying here
 
MW1304

MW1304

Cricketer Of The Year
I'm actually starting to like this tour match. It is both giving the Lankan selectors a reason to keep playing Maharoof, AND hopefully has made our selectors realise that Bopara is poo.

Go Essex!
 
flibbertyjibber

flibbertyjibber

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Totally agree, Bopara can't moan in the press again about being treated badly if he continuosly fails to produce with the bat. Bloke isn't good enough, end of.
 
Jacknife

Jacknife

International Captain
It was strange yesterday that Topley only bowled 7 overs and the part timers bowled a load and today he showed why it was a strange decision.
It wasn't down to declaration slogging, why the collapse happened because Maharoof only hit 5 from 35 deliveries trying to stretch the innings out right at the end.
 
Jayzamann

Jayzamann

International Regular
MW1304 said:
I'm actually starting to like this tour match. It is both giving the Lankan selectors a reason to keep playing Maharoof, AND hopefully has made our selectors realise that Bopara is poo.

Go Essex!
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Just skimmed the scorecard then. Really was two birds with one rock, ey?
 
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