flibbertyjibber
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Yeah and now you have Siddle taking it. Least he runs in all day etc...
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What to do with Sri Lanka?
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Burgey
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Indeed. This only proves my point though. England could have come here and scored twice as many runs as they did last year, and have had two or three LolSwanns in their attack. It wouldn't have mattered. Their quicks did the damage. Its why they're number one.
flibbertyjibber
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Agreed, and why we look like we may stay as top dog for a bit and will almost certainly be top 3 for a while as we have depth to our pace attack where most sides are struggling to find 3 decent ones to put on the field at the same time.
It is why Zimbabwe have more potential than Bangladesh to improve and give the better sides a run for their money as they have a couple of decent pacemen to go with their good spinner, Bangladesh are a 1 man attack and will always struggle until Shakib gets some help. Sri Lanka aren't even a 1 man attack at present which is a bit depressing.
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Burgey
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A lot of your first choicers are at the right age to be at it near their prime too. From our POV we have some good ones coming through but they're a while off what you'd expect their peaks to be, assuming they even stay fit enough to be long term options.
Burgey
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Dilhara is cool tbf.Dilara is decent.
Decently cool
He grunts when he bowls. That's a start.
Has slow balls too. A hit with the ladies is that
flibbertyjibber
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Well there is us and SA with the best pace attacks and you have bags of potential but the trouble is you never know which kids who make a promising start will kick on. After all Dominic Cork took 7-43 on his debut and he was a big hit wasn't he. The worry would be Cummins being injured already and Pattinson has had problems too, if they stay fit and you get one top bowler and one solid one you will be well on the way to a good attack again, just the batting and keeper to sort out then.
Zinzan
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Ummmm, pretty simple answer for mine, the two M's; (Murali & Malinga) no longer play Test cricket, and the 3rd M (Mendis) seems now to have only been a 1st-season wonder, hence they now struggle to get 20 wickets. I'm confident NZ would beat them in a Test series in NZ conditions atm and I wouldn't have said that a couple of years ago.
smash84
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short and simple solution. Sounds good
Burgey
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It is a bloody rotten thing they weren't getting paid, tbf.
Himannv
International Coach
Not the full amount as yet but who knows, they may have been holding back on their performances since they weren't being paid. Personally I wouldn't blame them for doing something like that.
Prince EWS
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The ridiculous situation you have where the Minister of Sport can just say "nah, try again" when the selectors name a team or a certain player needs to be sorted too.
ganeshran
International Debutant
I dont think they would be purposefully underperforming. But lack of payment is a demotivating factor in any job.
Himannv
International Coach
Agreed. Too many aspects of the way things are run there are unprofessional and leading towards practices which can be considered as "corruption".
I don't know. I can certainly see a scenario where the senior players, who are already assured of their spots, could stonewall and underperform a bit until they get paid properly.
Furball
Evil Scotsman
They've always been fairly average - they've yet to win a Test in India, Australia or South Africa and their 2 wins in England have owed an enormous amount to Murali, who took 16 and 11 wickets respectively (9 and 8 in the second innings) in Sri Lanka's wins.
They've punched massively above their weight for 10-15 years thanks to the presence of Murali, who certainly has a claim on the "greatest bowler of all time accolade." Without Murali, Sri Lanka have won a grand total of 7 Tests in their history.
They've punched massively above their weight for 10-15 years thanks to the presence of Murali, who certainly has a claim on the "greatest bowler of all time accolade." Without Murali, Sri Lanka have won a grand total of 7 Tests in their history.
smash84
The Tiger King
What????? Now this is an eye popping statistic
Furball
Evil Scotsman
2nd Test: Sri Lanka v India at Colombo (PSS), Sep 6-11, 1985 | Cricket Scorecard | ESPN Cricinfo
2nd Test: Sri Lanka v Pakistan at Colombo (CCC), Mar 14-18, 1986 | Cricket Scorecard | ESPN Cricinfo
2nd Test: Sri Lanka v Bangladesh at Colombo (SSC), Jul 28-31, 2002 | Cricket Scorecard | ESPN Cricinfo
2nd Test: Sri Lanka v South Africa at Colombo (SSC), Aug 11-15, 2004 | Cricket Scorecard | ESPN Cricinfo
1st Test: Pakistan v Sri Lanka at Faisalabad, Oct 20-24, 2004 | Cricket Scorecard | ESPN Cricinfo - Sri Lanka's only away win without Murali
1st Test: Sri Lanka v Pakistan at Galle, Jul 4-7, 2009 | Cricket Scorecard | ESPN Cricinfo
2nd Test: Sri Lanka v Pakistan at Colombo (PSS), Jul 12-14, 2009 | Cricket Scorecard | ESPN Cricinfo