** Official ** Sri Lanka in New Zealand tour

[JASON]

Yes, i haven't seen much worse than that first innings fielding display from s.lanka.

Agree, the fielding was a shocker !! And the number of dropped catches ...

 

[Smudge]

If you've ever read the forums during England series you wouldn't need to wait till then because there is ample evidence in the past that almost every English poster on here doesn't moan about them.

Nice caveat.

 

[JASON]

Malinga not the greatest one day bowler he has no accuracy, bowls too many four balls. he can't bat and not the greatest fielder not a very good one day player IMO.

He is essentially a Test only bowler ATM.

In ODIs he is way off target and gets thrashed easily. His ODI bowling figures are pretty bad !!

 

[Nate]

He is essentially a Test only bowler ATM.

In ODIs he is way off target and gets thrashed easily. His ODI bowling figures are pretty bad !!

Remind me how many One-Day Internationals he`s played again?

 

[dinu23]

yeah, u can't say Malinga's not good for ODIs. u just have to give him a chance to prove himself.

 

[JASON]

Remind me how many One-Day Internationals he`s played again?

These are the his bowling figures along with other bowlers for comparison-
Its just not the figures alone but the time of the innings he was bowling - usually early on or when the opposition were not going after the bowling and he would have been expected to be more economical. From memory none of these were during the slog overs !!
In fact because he is considered too risky to bowl during the slog overs. (because of his wayward bowling even early on) he doesn't bowl at the death.

This is against the might of United Arab Emirates - (Where all the others were very economical)
Zoysa 8 3 11 2 (2w)
Malinga 10 2 39 1 (1nb, 2w)
Dilshan 9 1 22 0 (1nb, 2w)
Muralitharan 10 3 21 3 (3w)
Chandana 9.5 2 22 4 (1nb, 1w)
Jayantha 1 0 1 0

This is against South Africa -

Malinga 5 0 40 0 (4nb)
Fernando 5 0 28 1 (3w)
Maharoof 6 0 20 1 (2w)
Dilshan 6 0 44 1 (2w)
Jayantha 1 0 7 0
Jayasuriya 10 2 24 0
Lokuarachchi 10 0 39 2 (2w)
Chandana 7 0 30 1 (1w)

This was against India in the Asia Cup-
Zoysa 8 0 49 1 (3w)
Malinga 10 0 56 2 (2nb, 3w)
Dilshan 10 0 49 0 (2w)
Maharoof 8 0 37 1 (2nb, 1w)
Chandana 7 0 42 0 (1w)
Jayasuriya 4 0 17 1
Jayantha 3 0 19 0

 

[nookie_lk]

i think he should be kept as a test bowler for now....and wait for him to mature more.... remember steven harmison was bowling all over the place when he started...but now he has matured and hes much more economical...

 

[FaaipDeOiad]

I must say, it's pretty funny to see the New Zealand fans on this forum who complained endlessly about "Australian bias" in the umpiring now being annoyed when other people complain about the umpiring because they didn't win. Annoying, isn't it?

 

[Nate]

I must say, it's pretty funny to see the New Zealand fans on this forum who complained endlessly about "Australian bias" in the umpiring now being annoyed when other people complain about the umpiring because they didn't win. Annoying, isn't it?

Damn straight.

Jase: You didn`t even answer my question! He started off badly. He will get better. I don`t care how he`s gone so far, that wasn`t my point!

 

[Gangster]

If you've ever read the forums during England series you wouldn't need to wait till then because there is ample evidence in the past that almost every English poster on here doesn't moan about them.

********!

 

[Dar]

Umpires generally favour the Aussies. Bucknor is generally incompetent but definitely has a special bias against India. Some people are just afraid to say these things when they are quite obvious

I only moan when there is good reason. I used to maon about Asoka De Silva but at least he was consistently crap, he put his finger up for everything regardless of the team.

 

[FaaipDeOiad]

Umpires generally favour the Aussies. Bucknor is generally incompetent but definitely has a special bias against India. Some people are just afraid to say these things when they are quite obvious

Rubbish, rubbish and rubbish. Umpires don't favour Australia with any kind of consistency or to any significant degree, Bucknor isn't the best umpire in the world but he certainly isn't biased against India, and people are extremely happy to say such things regardless of whether or not they are true.

 

[psxpro]

I'd say NZ's 8,9 and 10 is possibly the best.

By the way, stop the whinging, umpires are not biased.
The only biaed umpiring ive seen is peter parker, that guy is beuond a joke.
If srilankans compalin about umpiring decisions then we can complain about malinga's bowling action. Either way the match was always going to be a draw, hoipefully the next match is better.

Btw , today I missed all of it, but at one stage when we were already 7 down, why were vincent and fleming batting? Were one of them injured?

 

[Neil Pickup]

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Go on then, find all the times that England fans have moaned continuously about umpiring decisions.

In the SA series, the moaning was almost entirely Pratyush complaining that spinners shouldn't be allowed to get anyone LBW because South Africa lost... and then I suppose there was the Sri Lanka tour in 2001 where PT Manuel made his decisions randomly, but that hit both sides so it was just general complaint about incompetence!

 

[Nate]

By the way, stop the whinging, umpires are not biased.
The only biaed umpiring ive seen is peter parker, that guy is beuond a joke.

 

[Zinzan]

I must say, it's pretty funny to see the New Zealand fans on this forum who complained endlessly about "Australian bias" in the umpiring now being annoyed when other people complain about the umpiring because they didn't win. Annoying, isn't it?

This is not entirely true. I for one (as a NZer) have already stated earlier on this thread that Sri Lankan fans have every right to feel hard done about the umpiring decisions and that it was the first time this summer NZ were getting the rub of the green with the decisions.

So no need to paint your evil brush over all Kiwi fans

 

[shaka]

Hamish Marshall was given out when he was not out, thus benefiting Sri Lanka

 

[FaaipDeOiad]

So no need to paint your evil brush over all Kiwi fans

I wasn't intending to do that, plenty of Kiwi fans didn't complain about the umpiring in the first place, but there are plenty who did and are now getting annoyed with the Sri Lankan fans doing the exact same thing.

 

[Jono]

I wasn't intending to do that, plenty of Kiwi fans didn't complain about the umpiring in the first place, but there are plenty who did and are now getting annoyed with the Sri Lankan fans doing the exact same thing.

Are they the same NZ fans though? As in the same people? If they did, then you're spot on.

However, people on this board like to stereotype a whole nationality of fans, evident in this topic already. Even if 20, hell, even if 100 NZ fans complained about the umpiring bias during the Aus/NZ series, one NZ fan may have stayed out of it, and if that's the case, that same NZ fan has every right to be annoyed about complaints regarding umpiring bias in this series. He shouldn't face the consequences of other fans simply because they are from the same country as him.

Of course other CW posters wouldn't have you think the same it seems.

I'm not saying there was/wasn't any umpiring bias. I haven't watched enough of this test match due to lack of time to comment on that, but I'm just referring to this unhealthy habit many CW posters seem to have, whereby if one fan, or 100 fans from a certain nation make comments, the 101th fan must then face the consequences of those comments because he happens to be from the same country/support the same cricket team.

 

[anzac]

Just out of interest Anzac, what would be your batsmen-keepers-bowlers balance of a test squad to tour Africa (say they take 15)?

Also, who would be your bowlers if the season concluded tomorrow. Would you take Butler?

1 Fleming
2 Cumming
3 Marshall J
4 Marshall H
5 Astle
6 Vincent
7 Oram
8 McCullum
9 Vettori
10 Franklin
11 Bond
12 Sinclair
13 Styris
14 tba
15 tba

the assumption is that Styris, Oram & Bond are sufficiently recovered from injury to make the squad...........if not then replace Styris with Fulton, and 2 more tba.............

the tba's are because I don't know how long the itinary is as to whether or not I'd take a 2nd specialist 'keeper, as opposed to having part timer options in Vincent & Sinclair.........who also provide opening options so I haven't included Papps (not that I would atm) or How...........

likewise I'm not sure as to how much turn will be on offer for spin so I'm holding 1 berth for a potential 2nd spin option (Wiseman by default atm unfortunately - so it would have to be a spin friendly wicket/s for me to 'sacrifice' a squad berth).............

currently neither Butler, Tuffey nor Mills would make my squad - Butler because he has not shown anything different this season other than his standard back of a length, Tuffey because his action is stuffed as much as he is injured, Mills because he is too one dimensional regarding his 'swing'...........and C Martin is also doubtful.............

I'd prefer to see more of O'Brien b4 committing one way or the other regarding his selection but I'd probably have him penciled in atm.........

I'm also miffed that both Sherlock & Davis have been out for most of the season as I'd want to have one of them in the squad, much like Tait will be for The Ashes..............but I'm not aware of any other young bowling alternatives who have put their hand up as of yet........

so far as other seam options go I'd look at the likes of Adams, Walmsley & Gillespie as other options who have had reasonable domestic records, but I'm looking for attacking seamers with reasonable pace bowling genuine wicket taking deliveries, as opposed to containment bowlers to 'strangle' wickets out..........

finally I'd look to play a 6-4 split with the 11 as 1st pick...............