Yearly Archives: 2008

148 runs more with 4 wickets remaining

December 31, 2008 – 11:32 am

Ashraful, a masterful century. Chasing 521, that innings was made of rock solid balls. We doff our hat to you sir. Sakib’s wants to make love to this pitch, a 5fer when he bowled and now it looks like he’s going to start building his family a home in the middle. Murali’s bowled 5000 overs, [...]

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Dhakka, at stumps on day 4…

December 30, 2008 – 9:26 pm

Sri Lanka – par for the course Needed to push the lead past 500. Done. Needed to pick up at least 5 wickets for Mahela to feel like he made a good declaration. Done. Mahela snoozed his way to 166 and Dilshan helped him self to a 40 knowing he should be dropped from the [...]

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The return of Splendid Mendis

December 30, 2008 – 6:51 am

Some days you wake up and you know its going to go well. Today is one of those days. Flyslips own Splendid Mendis is set to return to the scene after bad things happened to him. It’s what every kid, man, woman, methhead, hippie, housewife, mom and dad across the world have been waiting for [...]

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SA v Aus, the numbers game

December 29, 2008 – 6:54 pm

16 years, Since Australia lost a home series 10 years, Since Australia have lost a test at the G. 38 years, Since SA won a series against Australia. Never, number of times SA have beaten Aus in a series home or away since being reinstated. 2, number of times Ricky Ponting has done the unthinkable [...]

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SA v Aus, are you ready to call it ?

December 28, 2008 – 11:02 pm

Australia Has a lead of 160 right now. If they can get this close to 200 or beyond we could be in for a rare treat. Pontings dismissal a few overs ago was MASSIVE, hence me typing it in caps. Everything depends on Johnson, Hauritz and Siddle to eek out as many run as possible. [...]

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