Category Archives: tilan samaraweera

Day 2 at Lahore…

Sri Lanka Dragged the innings on for too long when  550 was plenty. Samaraweera’s dream run continues. Not one but two, TWO,  double hundreds, its a great show of application. But when your main threat comes from one and a half bowlers, Gul (1), Danish (1/2) its not really that surprising. Dilshan collected a cool [...]

Day 1 at Lahore, strangely similar to Day 1 at Karachi

Sri Lanka After 6 failed attemps, Sangakkara made the right century at the right time.  This puts a bit of the limelight on him and it wont hurt his captaincy credentials either. Samaraweera continues to do harm to his average, in a good way. And we are loving it. The pitch was going to help [...]

It’s a draw

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 [...]

Day 2 at Karachi aka The Run Fest

Sri Lanka Making the best use of a flat pitch Sri Lanka have piled on the runs and misery. It was so good that they broke a world record. So one sided that Thilan scored a double ton. 230 at 72 is something you can hardly ignore. It has upped his average 3 pts to [...]

At stumps on day 3…

Sri Lanka – defining consolidation. The only way Prasanna should be sent out top open in test cricket is if he loses a rock paper sicossor throwdown with Sangakkara and Dilshan. Seems luck is on PJ’s side these days. It was a stop start day for Sri Lanka, with the top 4 getting starts and [...]