*Official* Group B Discussion - South Africa, Sri Lanka, New Zealand, England

[Jono]

Oh Mendis, you are so so so awesome.

 

[PhoenixFire]

Mendis, WAG.

 

[four_or_six]

Oh dear, this tournament could be a walk-over by Sri Lanka. Perhaps India or Pakistan could knock them out.

 

[kingkallis]

Magical spell this...

I thaught his magic was over but batsmen so easily fail to understand him!

 

[Xuhaib]

Oh Mendis, you are so so so awesome.

new team bully.

play him as a medium pacer FFS.

 

[four_or_six]

new team bully.

play him as a medium pacer FFS.

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England match is going to be carnage.

 

[Faisal1985]

And Mendis did it again.............this will be a game changer...

 

[kingkallis]

That was a disasterous miss from Murali.

Hope AB and Bouchie can put up some fight...

 

[PhoenixFire]

Mendis has a List - A bowling average of 14.01 :/

 

[kingkallis]

Ok, time to switch off

AB gone as well...

 

[four_or_six]

Mendis has a List - A bowling average of 14.01 :/

Averages 11 if you take the ODIs out!

 

[Jono]

new team bully.

play him as a medium pacer FFS.

He never dominated Pakistan, even when he first came up against them, right?

 

[Dissector]

I checked and Mendis got 4 for 47 in his first ODI against Pakistan which I think counts as domination especially since SL was defending 302.

It would be interesting to see Mendis's stats for his first ODI against each country.

 

[four_or_six]

10.0 1 39 3 3.90 4 2 v West Indies Port of Spain 10 Apr 2008 ODI # 2697

10.0 1 34 0 3.40 4 2 v Bangladesh Lahore 25 Jun 2008 ODI # 2715

6.3 1 22 5 3.38 4 2 v United Arab Emirates Lahore 26 Jun 2008 ODI # 2718

10.0 0 47 4 4.70 5 2 v Pakistan Karachi 29 Jun 2008 ODI # 2723

8.0 1 13 6 1.62 4 2 v India Karachi 6 Jul 2008 ODI # 2735

6.0 0 26 3 4.33 4 1 v Zimbabwe Harare 20 Nov 2008 ODI # 2779

7.0 1 14 0 2.00 3 2 v New Zealand Colombo (RPS) 8 Sep 2009 ODI # 2884

5.0 0 18 3 3.60 5 2 v South Africa Centurion 22 Sep 2009 ODI # 2893

New Zealand win!

 

[ret]

SA needs 160+ in some 20 overs .... No need to say that SL looks favs atm

though SA has quite a depth in their batting

 

[social]

Great stuff from SL - I hope they win this tourney as the country really deserves it

Saffies - shut the hell up and concentrate on winning something for a change because your declarations of "we're ready" or "it's our time" became realllllllly old about 10 years ago

 

[Dissector]

3 for 39 against West Indies
0 for 34 against Bangladesh
4 for 47 against Pakistan
6 for 13 against India
0 for 14 against New Zealand

These are his figures in his first ODI against test teams. An average of 11.30 so far. Let's see if he can lower that in this game. And yes his first game against England could be hilarious.

Edit: Ah, just saw that four or six beat me to it.

 

[four_or_six]

3 for 39 against West Indies
0 for 34 against Bangladesh
4 for 47 against Pakistan
6 for 13 against India
0 for 14 against New Zealand

These are his figures in his first ODI against test teams. An average of 11.30 so far. Let's see if he can lower that in this game. And yes his first game against England could be hilarious.

Edit: Ah, just saw that four or six beat me to it.

I was tempted to put something like 8-7 in for England.

 

[Dissector]

I wouldn't rule SA out of the tournament by any means. They should still be able to beat NZ and England and make it to the semis and they remain a quality side. But yes if they fail to win the whole thing, you can be sure the c-word will be used liberally.

 

[ret]

Boucher departs

Btw, I am watching live stream on some SL channel and the ads are so horrible