Sri Lanka in Australia thread

[Jnr.]

I am being optimistic, I want to watch a good contest.

 

[Revelation]

hehe....look at the NatWest Final then...

 

[Nate]

is that meant to be a joke??

 

[Jnr.]

hehe....look at the NatWest Final then...

Rain is very interesting.

Besides, I don't have cable.

 

[Simon]

im expecting attapatu to get out early tomorrow too, hopefully we can have them in again by tea and have them down 1 or 2 by stumps, the pitch will be at its best in the coming day, so i think even if they follow on we will surely bat again, let haydos and alf get a couple of not outs and lift the averages slightly

 

[biased indian]

im expecting attapatu to get out early tomorrow too, hopefully we can have them in again by tea and have them down 1 or 2 by stumps, the pitch will be at its best in the coming day, so i think even if they follow on we will surely bat again, let haydos and alf get a couple of not outs and lift the averages slightly

i thought australians never played for individual glory

 

[Simon]

i thought australians never played for individual glory

u thought wrong.....

 

[marc71178]

thats what i have been saying about flintoff and harmisson. let them perform consistently for a long period and then we will have them in world 11.other wise u will have to take all based on current form.

That has no relevance on Jayasuriya, since a tag of World Class is associated with a career, not form.

Of course a World XI is going to be picked on current form

 

[dude]

well it's about time he started scoring doubles against a team besides Zimbabwe and Bangladesh!

207* not out D 3rd Test v Pak in SL 2000 at Kandy



201* not out W 1st Test v Eng in SL 2000/01 at Galle

 

[Tom Halsey]

I rate Atapattu very highly, as long as he gets in - his amount of failures is huge.

 

[dude]

the rate of failure amongst ALL sri lankan batsmen is high! Its hard to see a sri lankan play a long steady slow innings. every batsmen wants to score quickly, this is in their blood i guess. it can be devastating from a team point of view and it can also make interesting cricket to watch.

 

[Tom Halsey]

Maybe, but Atapattu's rate of failure is even higher than the others - Channel 9 did a statistic during the first Test, and he had the highest rate of failure.

 

[dude]

Maybe, but Atapattu's rate of failure is even higher than the others - Channel 9 did a statistic during the first Test, and he had the highest rate of failure.

contributing highly to that statistic is his first 6 innings, which were all ducks & a score of 1 i believe.

 

[Tom Halsey]

6 innings in a carear that long doesn't make much difference - it's his whole carear that's contributed to it.

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

6 innings in a carear that long doesn't make much difference - it's his whole carear that's contributed to it.

6 failures to start your career does make a huge difference to such a statistic. Don't fool yourself.

 

[Tom Halsey]

Not really.

Out of 200 or whatever it is innings, 50 scores under 10 only becomes 56.

I am not denying that 6 failures to start your carear must dent your confidence and possibly make you further worsen the statistic, but out of a carear, 6 innings isn't a huge amount IMO.

 

[dude]

TESTS
(including 01/07/2004)
M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct St
Batting & Fielding 74 127 14 4552 249 40.28 14 12 46 0

 

[Tom Halsey]

Those stats implies that he is a good player (which I said up in the thread)

OK, so he has played 127 innings - I still don't think 6 innings makes all the difference.

 

[CrimeMasterGogo]

Atapattu has played 127 innings..

He has made 10 or less a whopping 57 times...including 19 ducks...

If we remove the 6 ducks at the start of his innings...
his average goes from...40.28 to 42.54..which is not much of a jump...

Just out of curiosity...if you remove all 19 ducks....48.42
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[Mr Mxyzptlk]

Atapattu has played 127 innings..

He has made 10 or less a whopping 57 times...including 19 ducks...

If we remove the 6 ducks at the start of his innings...
his average goes from...40.28 to 42.54..which is not much of a jump...

Just out of curiosity...if you remove all 19 ducks....48.42
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2 more runs per innings is a big difference.