***Official*** West Indies Tour of Sri Lanka- February 2020

[TestMatch]

Bravo has two ODI shots: a cover drive and a lofty forward drive. He should not play ODI cricket.

Pooran should bat at 3.

 

[Migara]

I like that Bravo has an abnormally high number of international sixes but still maintains a very low S/R in all formats. He averages more sixes per ODI game than the likes of Gilchrist and Jayasuriya but still has a S/R at 70.

Small boundaries may be a reason.

 

[Bahseph]

It's utterly surprising to me that Bravo doesn't have more of a touch game. Really pleasing to watch but he eats up dot balls. With Hope in the ODI team I don't know how useful he is. I suppose that point is counter balanced by having Pollard in at 6. Batting is a little light even with all the lower oder bashers.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Might be lucky to restrict SL to something around 335 here

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

15 runs off that over. Still 6 overs to go..
289/5

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Highest score for SL versus WI in SL.

300 up.

350 definitely is on the cards.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Well a dot ball at this stage is welcomed...and plus it's a wicket.

303/6

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

345/8 after 50 overs

Highest total in an ODI innings without a six being hit. 33x4; 0x6.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Good to see Mathews bowling

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Hasaranga's googlies are getting good grip off the surface. He will cause some problem here for the WI batsmen.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Slow going at the moment. The required rate is inching towards 10 an over.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

When we needed out skipper Pollard to get us out of this jam, he fails miserably. A golden duck.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

211 to get off the last 20 overs.
Time to go out with a bang.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Wanindu's googlies are

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

This just about sums it up:

West Indies in a proper nosedive now. Sri Lanka's wristspinners in full bamboozle mode.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Come on Keemo and Pooran...take it all the way to the 50th over.

 

[TestMatch]

Any team that puts Darren Bravo to bat in an ODI game, let alone at number 3, deserves to lose. This is a guy who averages 30, and after over a hundred games only has 3 tons, two of which were vs Zim and Bangla.

That he looks good in domestic ODIs and club T20s, tricks people into thinking he ever had a international ODI career.

He sucks the momentum and life out of every ODI game I've seen him play in, and is awful at finding gaps. Pooran should bat at three, and an unfit Hetmeyer should have been picked over Bravo.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Yeah, a yoyo test is what separated two game-changing players from playing in this series.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Fabien's smacking 'em!

 

[Beamer]

I feel it's somewhat appropriate that the lights have gone out of our chase here. The total was just too big given the turn and bounce the Sri Lankan spinners were getting. We should never have conceded that many runs. Walsh Jr might be expensive but he usually gets one or two wickets, often with bad deliveries and it makes a real difference. The attack looked toothless today and Sri Lanka batted very well. Of course, Pollard dropping a dolly at slip which cost over 100 runs was probably the big turning point.

Having said that you can't play that many dot balls and chase over 300. It just won't happen. We need Hetmeyer back ASAP and we need Lewis also. Ambris isn't cutting it as an opener but I feel he should be batting in the middle order instead. I agree that Bravo should not be in the side, his only value is in the big shots he can play and he just doesn't play like that for whatever reason.

On the plus side it's great to see Al Jo continue to progress.