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*Official* India in Sri Lanka 2010 - Tests

Manee

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Love the small print at the end...

"Former Sri Lanka captain Mahela Jayawardene is the country's leading Test run-scorer"
 

Scaly piscine

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Mahela's criticisms are lolworthy. He says India should have declared early and tried to make a result. Well with this pitch and India's bowling, he must be kidding.
Yes they should have declared early and see if Sri Lanka could implode. Stranger things have happened. Even if they just had a little wobble it at least shifts some momentum and confidence.

It was defeatist to not even give your bowlers a chance.
 

Sir Alex

Banned
Did you watch the match? On Day 4 and 5, Ishant Sharma, Mithun and Ojha batted out close to 50 overs. If you think on that pitch Sri Lanka would've imploded you are deluding yourself.
 

Jarquis

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Did you watch the match? On Day 4 and 5, Ishant Sharma, Mithun and Ojha batted out close to 50 overs. If you think on that pitch Sri Lanka would've imploded you are deluding yourself.
Even if they just had a little wobble it at least shifts some momentum and confidence.

It was defeatist to not even give your bowlers a chance.
Did you not read his post? If you read the fourth and fifth sentences he was making a valid point. If you think all he said is what you replied to, you are deluded.
 

Sir Alex

Banned
@ above, there is going to be NO wobble in the first place of note, not enough to create "confidence" or "momentum". India would have thought, and rightly so, that making lankans field for another 50 overs would drain them physically and mentally than trying to find a result where none exists.
 

Scaly piscine

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@ above, there is going to be NO wobble in the first place of note, not enough to create "confidence" or "momentum". India would have thought, and rightly so, that making lankans field for another 50 overs would drain them physically and mentally than trying to find a result where none exists.
Sri Lanka were still 3 down after 30 overs in the 3rd innings of the match. That was without any real pressure. Get another wicket and you're into players who haven't had a bat in the Test. This is still cricket, anything can happen in a day's play.
 

Jarquis

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Even a 20 over burst or something, nip out two Sri Lankans cheaply, that's surely got to be worth something.
Rather than just go, "Nah, no point, we won't take any wickets."
 

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But whatever little pressure was due to the 60 odd run lead, without that Sri Lanka would have racked up some 200/2 or something IMO.
 

Sir Alex

Banned
Sri Lanka were still 3 down after 30 overs in the 3rd innings of the match. That was without any real pressure. Get another wicket and you're into players who haven't had a bat in the Test. This is still cricket, anything can happen in a day's play.
Couldn't that be attributed to the extra boredom/exertion the openers had to take after fielding for atleast 50 overs more than they might have expected?

Anyway as I said before, in case India declared earlier, it would've set a good platform for the likes of Jayawardene and Sangakkara another shot at yet another home hunderd.
 

Scaly piscine

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Sangakkara was also caught off a no-ball in the 5th over of that innings.

Dhoni should have declared on the 8th wicket falling, or better still earlier with more aggressive batting. This was towards the end of day four, not the middle of day five here. Given say 100 overs or so left in the match at that point, more if they bowled their overs quicker. Sri Lanka would have had to have survived 70-75 overs. That's not a given on any pitch. The situation does strange things to batsmen.
 

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Another ****ing toss lost. No Harbhajan, can't we atleast get some luck with the toss and the conditions FFS? :@
 

Sir Alex

Banned
Haha.. draw will be a great result then.

Sri Lanka bat first. No surprises there.

Predicting a 230 all out or a 300-2 at close of today's play.
 

Kensashi

School Boy/Girl Cricketer
Haha.. draw will be a great result then.

Sri Lanka bat first. No surprises there.

Predicting a 230 all out or a 300-2 at close of today's play.
They aren't playing at the SSC. The toss doesn't play a big part at the P.Sara Oval.
 

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