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I'm thinking more in Tests, to be honest. Fiddie bowled 1st or 2nd change in the last Test.
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***Official*** Sri Lanka in the West Indies
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roseboy64
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Taylor has been fast improving and has bowled well in the last year or so. Average kinda spolied by his start I'm sure. Powell won't make in Tests. Jaggernauth looks the goods as a spinner if he ever gets played. Edwards is a potential wicket taker. A third pacer is difficult to pinpoint but I guess Sammy.
straw man
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What has happened to Sri Lanka? Not long ago at the world cup they were clearly the No.2 team in the world and doing pretty well in tests too. Since then all down hill. Their team doesn't seem much different from then either.
Well done to the Windies though - everyone wants them to improve after a few years of not-so-grea performances and it sounds like there are good signs, even if it is the established players putting in the match-winning performances rather than the new guys.
Well done to the Windies though - everyone wants them to improve after a few years of not-so-grea performances and it sounds like there are good signs, even if it is the established players putting in the match-winning performances rather than the new guys.
chaminda_00
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The West Indies have improved a fair bit even just over the last two months. Yeah its the big players like Gayle, Chanderpaul and Sarwan that are finishing off matches for them. But it is the improved contributions of others that are allowing them to get in positions to win games. Before these guys were always performing this well, it just the had little back up.
Taylor has been the big improver lately. In the last couple season there were plenty of games where there batsmen stepped up, but he bowlers went missing. But he is leading the pace attack pretty well and they seem to have a real wicketer in him and consistent one ATM.
Still a fair way to go to reach reduce the gap, as Sri Lanka are playing quite poor. And when South Africa turned it up over there they went missing a bit.
Sri Lanka are at there best like West Indies are now when there are not relying on their big players. The difference between the performances in World Cup and now. Was the performances of Tharanga, Silva, Jayawardene, Dilhara and Malinga and significant contributions they made. As soon as these guys start underperforming then team rarely plays well. Unless off course you have an exceptionally performance by Sangakkara, Jayasuriya, Murali or Vaas. As good Sangakkara and Murali are they aren't going to perform every match and unless other guys step up they wont win too many matches.
There quite a few players in the squad and around the domestic scene that can play at the level required to get us back there. But I think we just need to patient. There has been a lot retirements and few guys nearing the end of their careers. A lot of them haven't been big names, but they gave us depth and were good to very good contributers. The nature of Sri Lanka cricket means it will take time for thoughs guys to be replaced, even in terms of depth.
The issue is the loss of Moody and lack of impact of Bayliss. But he needs time to understand how to manage Sri Lanka players. Both Moody and even Watmore didn't have success straight away and both were quite poor actually.
Taylor has been the big improver lately. In the last couple season there were plenty of games where there batsmen stepped up, but he bowlers went missing. But he is leading the pace attack pretty well and they seem to have a real wicketer in him and consistent one ATM.
Still a fair way to go to reach reduce the gap, as Sri Lanka are playing quite poor. And when South Africa turned it up over there they went missing a bit.
Sri Lanka are at there best like West Indies are now when there are not relying on their big players. The difference between the performances in World Cup and now. Was the performances of Tharanga, Silva, Jayawardene, Dilhara and Malinga and significant contributions they made. As soon as these guys start underperforming then team rarely plays well. Unless off course you have an exceptionally performance by Sangakkara, Jayasuriya, Murali or Vaas. As good Sangakkara and Murali are they aren't going to perform every match and unless other guys step up they wont win too many matches.
There quite a few players in the squad and around the domestic scene that can play at the level required to get us back there. But I think we just need to patient. There has been a lot retirements and few guys nearing the end of their careers. A lot of them haven't been big names, but they gave us depth and were good to very good contributers. The nature of Sri Lanka cricket means it will take time for thoughs guys to be replaced, even in terms of depth.
The issue is the loss of Moody and lack of impact of Bayliss. But he needs time to understand how to manage Sri Lanka players. Both Moody and even Watmore didn't have success straight away and both were quite poor actually.
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Essentially a slow medium bowler, but spins it. Good accuracy, good flight and every delivery in the book. Made Sarwan look an amateur and Chris Gayle fell over a few times trying to sweep him. IIRC he started with a rank long hop that Sarwan hit for a single, but I don't remember too many other loose balls after that.
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In fairness Jerome Taylor's record is getting better pretty steadily, Powell is clearly not up to it, and Edwards has played the large majority of his FC cricket at Test level. I'd be interested in how Edwards goes in County Cricket this year.
Jono
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HpVzhDXzmY
Mendis looks very very intriguing. That's a hell of a lot of variety for a finger spinner.
Mendis looks very very intriguing. That's a hell of a lot of variety for a finger spinner.
BoyBrumby
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Just the last three balls myself.
Was flicking around after watching My Name Is Earl & saw Live International Cricket was on Sky Sports 2 so gave it a go. Glad I did. Never seen someone hit a six off the last ball to win before.
As you say, early days, but I reckon the the green shoots are tentatively sprouting. Hopefully at worst they've bottomed out now.
irfan
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AWTA. Awesome find for SL. No doubt if he was Australian, he would be handed a CA contract.
honestbharani
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Missed the whole bloody game........ And the highlights...Possibly Jeetan Patel?
I only watched the last two overs, glory-watcher that I am.
Missed watching Mendis, looks like I might have missed something special
Hoping to catch tonight's game though..... Wanna check out how good this Mendis guy is......
Mr Mxyzptlk
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First impression of Udawatte - tries to be Jayasuriya, but doesn't look to be anywhere near as good. That said, Jayasuriya wasn't a very good Jayasuriya when he first started out.
aussie
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Definately, bowls all the variations of both the off-spinner & leg-spinner from a very easy approach. Looks good.
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Very unlikely. They're still clearing water off the covers (with a drizzle) and they'd have to start in less than an hour to get a 20-over Windies run chase.