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Has Samaraveera gotten rid of the FTB tag?
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Jacknife
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If this is aimed towards me, there's nothing like putting words into someone's mouth is there mate, so where did I say that. I responded to the guy who said that Samaraverra often guiding SL to safety in England, I pointed out he didn't, he did it once., where he put on some runs with Sangakkara.
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I wasn't commenting on his performance in the series or your comment specifically, I just get annoyed when someone says player X scored his runs in a draw and therefore they aren't valuable.
I'll be honest though, I did misunderstand your comment earlier and didn't realise the point you were trying to make about Sam not guiding SL as often as nomanclature suggested, which lead to me getting annoyed for nothing
Jacknife
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I wasn't commenting on his performance in the series or your comment specifically, I just get annoyed when someone says player X scored his runs in a draw and therefore they aren't valuable.
I'll be honest though, I did misunderstand your comment earlier and didn't realise the point you were trying to make about Sam not guiding SL as often as nomanclature suggested, which lead to me getting annoyed for nothing
Black_Warrior
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If Samaraweera is a flat track bully, then so is Jayawardene.. he is at least better than Jayawardene overseas. Why was he dropped for the Pakistan series despite scoring an unbeaten 87 in England in the final test?
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The reason for that is outside SC is 5 major test playing nations..
Sri Lanka is one nation.
Being average in 1 nation > being average in 5 (this will change now with his performances in South Africa)
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I count three and a half
Black_Warrior
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Could be..I haven't looked at his record in detail. My point was that if someone is average in one country, it is not the same as being average in 5 nations.
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In Aus - 136 @ 22.26
In Bang - 326 @ 54.33
In Eng - 219 @ 27.37
In India - 193 @ 24.12
In NZ - 178 @ 59.33
In Pak - 633 @ 90.42
In SA - 339 @ 67.80
In SL - 2762 @ 60.04
In WI - 198 @ 49.50
In Zim - 38 @ 38
So basically your assertion that being gun in SL while being below average in 5 other major test playing nations isn't true. He's done poorly in Aus, Eng and India as far as I can see, (which make up 26/114 of his innings) while being pretty damn good at home and countries like Pakistan and now more recently SA .
He's been really valuable to the SL side afaik.
In Bang - 326 @ 54.33
In Eng - 219 @ 27.37
In India - 193 @ 24.12
In NZ - 178 @ 59.33
In Pak - 633 @ 90.42
In SA - 339 @ 67.80
In SL - 2762 @ 60.04
In WI - 198 @ 49.50
In Zim - 38 @ 38
So basically your assertion that being gun in SL while being below average in 5 other major test playing nations isn't true. He's done poorly in Aus, Eng and India as far as I can see, (which make up 26/114 of his innings) while being pretty damn good at home and countries like Pakistan and now more recently SA .
He's been really valuable to the SL side afaik.
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