Monthly Archives: February 2009

Thin up top

February 28, 2009 – 9:20 am

1 century stand. 2 scores of more than 50. 4 batsmen. 18 innings. 12 long months. Sanaths gone. SL are yet to move on. 4 different combinations have been tried and still Sri Lanka cant find a decent opening pair cool enough to match Marvan and Sanath. Vandort,  too often he planted his giraffe legs [...]

By damiths | Posted in mahela udawatte, malinda warnapura, prasanna jayawardene, Tharanga Paranavitana, vandort | Comments (4)

Inter-Prov update, Thirimanne steps up

February 27, 2009 – 4:18 pm

The premier leagues have been decided, its now time for the domestic inter-prov tournament in SL. Most people probably don’t know about it but SL has a 2 tier 4 day game tournament followed by the Inter-Provincial Tournament, also played over 4 days. Lesser teams – 5 Tougher competition. Bashnahira North have been in thumping [...]

By damiths | Posted in anjelo mathews, basnahira north, basnahira south, dammika prasad, Inter-Provincial Tournament, lahiru thirimanne, thilina kandamby, tier a, tier b | Comments (0)

The HMS MSD has arrived

February 26, 2009 – 7:31 pm

On the shores of New Zealand. Think -  Sheep, greenery, Martin Crowe and the youngest nation on earth, according to www.newzealand.com- surely they cant be wrong. India are there after about 7 years or so, when NZ had their way with India. In fact, out of the 7 test series played between the two countries, [...]

By damiths | Posted in new zealand v india | Comments (3)

It’s a draw

February 26, 2009 – 9:09 am

And it had been for over 2 days now. Until the customary ‘late in the 5th day drama’ which intrigues all of us, gets the cricinfo commentators excited but amounts to nothing in the end. Mahela,as ever, spoke about the positives. Sri Lanka’s batting which has been a worry over the last month had to [...]

By damiths | Posted in ajantha mendis, mahela jayawardane, malinda warnapura, sangakkara, shoaib malik, sri lanka v pakistan, test cricket, Tharanga Paranavitana, tilan samaraweera, younis khan | Comments (6)

The names Younus, not Younis

February 25, 2009 – 3:40 pm

Even Q over at Well Pitched doesn’t seem to know this. What kind of blogger is he anyway, don’t even know his players names. Whatever the fuck his name is, I hope he fucking gets the 400. Because that would be the ONLY pissing highlight of this game. You cant blame either side for whats [...]

By damiths | Posted in sri lanka v pakistan, younis khan | Comments (10)