I think he may do so if he is fit...He is the best ODI bat we have seen and I would like to see him do so. Cheers!Do you think Jayasuriya will play the 2011 world cup?
I didn't say he is the best bat in the team...I said he is the best ODI bat we have ever seen, overall. At least for me, he certainly is. I'm not a SL fan, but the truth be told, you have to credit his brilliance.he is the best batsman in his team even at 40.
Huh?If SL fails to find a suitable opener, they should stop playing ODIs
If we can't find suitable openers then we probably no longer ODI class maybe.Huh?
Bingo!If we can't find suitable openers then we probably no longer ODI class maybe.
SL was like that a decade ago. But they had a gun middle order of Gurusinghe, De Silva, Ranatunga and Tillekaratne, which all will average 45+ if they played on todays featherbeds. But compared to that SL only now has Sangakkara and Jayawardane. The current middle order is as no where as good as what it was 10 years back.I disagree. India have been test class without suitable fast bowlers for so long in their history. Its a wonder we managed to win as many tests as we did.
Outside the subcontinent (well, outside India and Sri Lanka in fact), India won 0 Tests between '32 and '67. Then they won 6 Tests (excluding 2 against Packer-afflicted Australian teams) between '72 and '00.I disagree. India have been test class without suitable fast bowlers for so long in their history. Its a wonder we managed to win as many tests as we did.
TBF Samaraweera is a pretty decent middle order player in tests. And while Dilshan is rather inconsistant he is capable of putting in a good performance every now and then. Certainly wouldn't say it was no where near as good as the middle order of 10 years ago.SL was like that a decade ago. But they had a gun middle order of Gurusinghe, De Silva, Ranatunga and Tillekaratne, which all will average 45+ if they played on todays featherbeds. But compared to that SL only now has Sangakkara and Jayawardane. The current middle order is as no where as good as what it was 10 years back.