Sri Lanka in Zimbabwe thread

[Tim]

The ICC should step in & make Australia take their U19 team to Zimbabwe. Afterall half the players in the current Zimbabwe side helped smash Australia at the World Cup a few months back. It would make for a competitive series anyway..maybe...

[Langeveldt]

600% inflation? God save Zim

Yeh think the bank have been printing higher denominations recently.. The queues for petrol were so long the price probably gets changed by the time you reach the pump...

[Arjun]

What's with the Lankan bowlers? They have not yet taken a wicket! Besides, they've bowled too many wides and no-balls!

[Samuel_Vimes]

Maybe because it's Zoysa, Maharoof, Herath, Chandana, Arnold and Murali bowling?

This series is turning into more and more of a joke with every minute. Dilshan is keeping, too.

[JASON]

Looking at the performances of the Zimbabwean Team that played - I think Brendan Taylor (the opener) has done fairly well and may retain his place in the Team . I thought Panyangara (the opening bowler) bowled fairly well as did Mupariwa . These three may have enhanced their selection for future ODI's or even Tests (given the lean form of some of the so called established Zimbabwean cricketers) along with Taibu ( who is obviously a permanent fixture in their regular team).
I wonder how even a Team like Zimbabwe can continue to select batsmen like Ebrahim etc and worse still batsmen of the calibre of Sibanda!!

[Tim]

Dilshan has been picked as a specialist keeper for Sri Lanka before..infact I think he may have done the job last time Sri Lanka were in Zimbabwe.

[tooextracool]

this brendon taylor has the best square drive i've ever seen. not much of a technique for an opening batsman though

[Craig]

But what does shock me is WHO they dropped. Sibanda was way up the pecking order above Chigumbura

I am speechless.

I am without speech to respond to that comment. I am mystifiyed.

[Neil Pickup]

Looking at the performances of the Zimbabwean Team that played - I think Brendan Taylor (the opener) has done fairly well and may retain his place in the Team . I thought Panyangara (the opening bowler) bowled fairly well as did Mupariwa . These three may have enhanced their selection for future ODI's or even Tests (given the lean form of some of the so called established Zimbabwean cricketers) along with Taibu ( who is obviously a permanent fixture in their regular team).
I wonder how even a Team like Zimbabwe can continue to select batsmen like Ebrahim etc and worse still batsmen of the calibre of Sibanda!!

In defence of Ebrahim, he has eight Test 50s and an ODI century.

[Arjun]

I am more interested in the performance of Prasanna Jayawardene as a wicketkeeper. Apparently, he is Lanka's best wicketkeeper and has a first-class century too, but being the best wicketkeeper makes him an automatic selection. Especially when Sangakkara's also a wicketkeeper, and I have seen him make some big bloopers in the World Cup and he isn't going to inspire Murali much, since he has difficulty keeping to him. Prasanna is a better batsman than Sangakkara is a keeper, so it will be interesting, how he plays.

[Neil Pickup]

I am more interested in the performance of Prasanna Jayawardene as a wicketkeeper. Apparently, he is Lanka's best wicketkeeper and has a first-class century too, but being the best wicketkeeper makes him an automatic selection. Especially when Sangakkara's also a wicketkeeper, and I have seen him make some big bloopers in the World Cup and he isn't going to inspire Murali much, since he has difficulty keeping to him. Prasanna is a better batsman than Sangakkara is a keeper, so it will be interesting, how he plays.

He's had a couple of chances before at International level and failed exceptionally badly with the bat (even against Bangladesh). If he can get his average up to the high teens or late twenties (as it is in FC) as opposed to 2.5 in Tests and 2.0 in ODIs, he should maintain his place.

[Arjun]

He's had a couple of chances before at International level and failed exceptionally badly with the bat (even against Bangladesh). If he can get his average up to the high teens or late twenties (as it is in FC) as opposed to 2.5 in Tests and 2.0 in ODIs, he should maintain his place.

Happens once in a while. I don't want him to end up like Ajay Ratra or Chris Read. He can definitely stretch his average in this series, but if they play 6 batsmen and 2 bowlers who can bat, they don't need a wicketkeeper who can bat. Even 20 runs with the bat can be effective with such a batting lineup ahead of him.

[marc71178]

I think Chris Read's batting has been unfairly criticised.

[luckyeddie]

I think Chris Read's batting has been unfairly criticised.

certainly as far as recent ODI's are concerned

[Craig]

I think Chris Read's batting has been unfairly criticised.

Well his three sixes won you guys the first ODI.