Category Archives: mahela jayawardane

SL v NZ 2nd test, day 1

August 26, 2009 – 10:51 pm

Sri Lanka. Wow. That just redefined snails pace. In this age of 400 in a day SL crawled, rolled (slowly) to less than 270. Sure the Kiwis bowled well but by god, you are a better man than us if you didn’t get in some nice microsleeps through the day. Mahela 79 at 37.That was [...]

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SL v NZ, day 1

August 18, 2009 – 10:29 pm

New Zealand Couldn’t have asked for a better start. But by lunch Dilshan had taken the initiative away from them. As predicted it was the Kiwi fastmen who caused strife throughout the day. They just didnt bowl full enough to worry the SL batsmen. They did bowl well but just the wrong length. Vettori and [...]

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Sri Lanka 2nd test memo

July 11, 2009 – 10:43 am

-Don’t leave out Prasanna Jayawardene. Dilshan did an OK job, but at the PSS the ball will spin and I wouldn’t want Dilshan making an error at a crucial time. Plus his batting is more important to the team than anything else. Who should they leave out? It’s a tough call. And that’s why you [...]

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SL v Pak, day 3

July 6, 2009 – 11:06 pm

Sri Lanka Lost Warnapura on 0. Which wasn’t exactly the start you want when you are 50 behind. Warnapura’s run as a SL opener might be coming to an end. His last 5 innings total 12 runs. He has probably got enough credit to last out the series but if there are no big scores [...]

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SL v Pak, day 1

July 4, 2009 – 11:58 pm

So the test series ‘of the summer’ got off to the cracking start we predicted. Today was a day of test cricket. None of that yahoo-tomfoolery white ball stuff. A hard grind, where neither team was ever really on top. 12 wickets 300 runs. Doesn’t get better than that. Specially in the Sub-C. Sri Lanka [...]

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