Friday, February 24, 2012
Jayawardene hails "special" Chandimal
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Mahela
Jayawardene believes Sri Lanka have found a special player in Dinesh
Chandimal after his third half-century of the series helped set up a
record chase at Bellerive Oval. Chandimal scored 80 and kept the chase on track
after Jayawardene fell for 85, and although he was out to an ill-judged
attempted paddle off Ryan Harris, he had done enough to allow the tail to
finish the job.
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CB Series,
Dinesh Chandimal,
Mahela Jayawardene
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Delhi Daredevils names Mahela Jayawardene vice-captain
Delhi
Daredevils has named the vastly-experienced Mahela Jayawardene, who led Sri
Lanka to the final of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2007, as its vice-captain this
season.Making this announcement, Delhi Daredevils’ Team Mentor TA Sekar said
today that it was an easy decision to make. “He has an excellent track record
as a leader of men and draws enormous respect from his team-mates,” he said.
Fired up Lankans to face the Aussies in Hobart
For Sri
Lankans this will be another opportunity to continue their process of regaining
the lost pride. They certainly have done that quite successfully so far. If
they manage to beat the Australians again that will be a colossal statement.
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Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Jayawardene: We are getting better and better
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Mahela Jayawardene emerged a proud
captain after Sri Lanka secured a 51-run win to rise above India in the ODI
tri-series standings in Brisbane.Tuesday saw half-centuries from Tillakaratne
Dilshan and Lahiru Thirimanne and Angelo Mathew's late-order blitz, which
brought 49 unbeaten runs from just 37 balls, power the Sri Lankans to the
highest score of the tournament thus far - 289 for six.
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Jayawardene pleased despite dropped catches
Sri Lanka
have not played a single out-and-out bad game in this tournament. Yet they lost
their first three matches. They were not efficient in finishing the opposition
off, they were not starting their innings well, and even if they recovered they
would fall away towards the end. In the last two games, though, they seem to
have overcome those flaws.
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Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Sri Lankans too hot for the Indians
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Sri Lanka proved
to be way too strong for India today at Brisbane in the Commonwealth Bank
series 8th match. Indians were without their captain and the most successful
batsmen of the tournament M.S Dhoni and found resurgent Sri Lankans a bit too
hot to handle. Sri Lankan batsmen put in a commanding batting performance
earlier in the day with all of their batsmen except for Kumar Sangakkara,
getting amongst the runs. The most
encouraging factor for the Sri Lankans were the way their next generation of
batsmen handled the situation and batted India out of the game.
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Ranil Abeynayake passes away
Former Sri
Lankan cricketer and cricket commentator Ranil Abeynayake has passed away early
this morning at the age of 57.
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Monday, February 20, 2012
Dhoni less India to face resurgent Sri Lanka
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After losing
quite badly in the previous game against Australia, they got hit by a penalty to
their captain and who is also their best batsmen of the tournament. Sri Lanka
though will be brimming with confident after hammering the Aussies in Sydney. Coming
back to form of the captain Mahela Jayawardene is a big boost for their batting
department and he might continue to open by displacing the award winning
opening combination of 2011 and that seems to be the wise thing to do in the
context of the tournament because Mahela averages 67.90 when opening the
innings which is a twice his career average.
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CB Series,
Mahela Jayawardene,
Upul Tharanga
Dhoni will not play in the next game against Sri Lanka
MS Dhoni has been suspended for one ODI and India fined for
the team's second over-rate breach in ODIs in less than a year. India were
found to be two overs short during their 110-run defeat against Australia in
Brisbane, after time allowances were taken into consideration. Match referee
Andy Pycroft also fined Dhoni 40% of his match fee and the team's other players
were fined 20% each.
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Saturday, February 18, 2012
1996 World Cup Final - Last few minutes and celebrations
Final few minutes of the 1996 Wills World Cup Final and the celebrations and presentations afterwards. This is one of the greatest moments of Sri Lankan history and even today fills us with emotions. Thought to share this with all the cricket fans because we werent so lucky enough to celebrate a moment like this after 1996 though we got so close on two other occations. Enjoy these great scenes and wish to see another win like this real soon.
1996 WORLD CUP FINAL - WINNING RUNS AND POST... by cricsl
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Pay-day for Sri Lanka players this month
Sri Lanka's cricketers are set to receive their
outstanding salaries by the end of February after a Sri Lankan bank agreed to
release 600 million rupees (approx US$5.07 million) to Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC)
to meet this commitment, the country's sports ministry has said.
The state-owned Bank of Ceylon agreed to provide the funds following discussions between its officials and the Sports Minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage. The minister subsequently instructed SLC "to pay the pending salaries up to the month of February to its contracted cricketers by February 28, 2012," according to a statement from the ministry. The minister also stated that payments from March 2012 onwards would be paid on time.
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The state-owned Bank of Ceylon agreed to provide the funds following discussions between its officials and the Sports Minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage. The minister subsequently instructed SLC "to pay the pending salaries up to the month of February to its contracted cricketers by February 28, 2012," according to a statement from the ministry. The minister also stated that payments from March 2012 onwards would be paid on time.
Chandimal a promising new find
In
those days of yore when our school cricket was of a very high standard to be
admired by those here and abroad every school had attractive cricketers to be
outstanding as match winners. It did speak well for our 'School Cricket', when
a few prodigious cricketers during their relative periods at school were
selected to play for the national team while at school, names like Pat
Macarthy, Bryan Claessen and Arjuna Ranatunga come easily to mind.
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Dinesh Chandimal
Jayawardene happy with youngsters stepping up
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Mahela Jayawardene is pleased Sri Lanka's turnaround in the
triangular series has begun with youngsters stepping up. Thisara Perera, the promising allrounder who is slowly
becoming a key member of the side, and Farveez Maharoof, who made yet another comeback in an
in-and-out career, took four wickets for 47 runs between them, and broke the
back of the Australian innings.
Friday, February 17, 2012
Sri Lankans thrash the aussies at their own backyard
About a week ago, if you have said that Sri Lankan cricket team will thrash the Australians to their biggest defeat after 1992, you would have laughed at by almost all. But half way in to the CB series Australians find themselves being hunted by two cricket teams who were struggling to beat anybody. The performance put up by Sri Lanka today may have been unexpected to many but, if you look at their recent matches starting from the 4th ODI against South Africa, there is plenty to be cheered.
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Thursday, February 16, 2012
'Bangladesh can't make do with left-arm spin only' - Muralitharan
Muttiah Muralitharan has said that Bangladesh will need
variety in their bowling stocks to complement the surfeit of left-arm spinners emerging
in the country. The retired Muralitharan, the highest wicket-taker in Test and
ODI history, is a part of the Chittagong Kings side for the ongoing Bangladesh
Premier League. His observations came after Chittagong's encounter with Dhaka
Gladiators on Monday, a game in which as many as five left-arm spinners
played.
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Jayawardene calls on his team to be ruthless
Lankan
captain Mahela Jayawardene called upon his teammates to show more focus and be
ruthless in finishing off games, after their tri-series match against India
resulted in a tie on Tuesday.
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Sri Lankans head to Sydney with fond memories
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Sri Lanka is
yet to register their first win in the Commonwealth Bank Series, but somehow
they need to. Otherwise they will leave themselves too much ground to cover in
the second half of the tournament. The venue for their next game against
Australia gives them plenty of encouragement because Sri Lanka have won five of
their last seven games including three wins against the hosts. If one of their
four most experienced batsmen could contribute and does not let Dinesh
Chandimal who has become the mainstay of the Sri Lankan batting lineup do all
the scoring, they will have a golden opportunity to beat the aussies and get strongly
back to the tournament.
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CB Series,
Dinesh Chandimal,
Kumar Sangakkara
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Sri Lanka, India in dramatic ODI tie
India and Sri Lanka finished in a sensational tie in their tri one-day series international at the Adelaide Oval on Tuesday.
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Sri Lanka scores their first points of the series
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Batsman
messing up the bowler’s good work seems to be the theme of this year’s CB
series. Although I’m not quite sure which batting unit messed it up this time,
in the context of the series the tie is a win for the Indians. Whatever the way
they comes, Sri Lanka will take their first points. They needed them badly.
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Monday, February 13, 2012
Sangakkara wants an urgent review of Sri Lanka cricket
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Former captain and
star batsman Kumar Sangakkara wants an urgent review of Sri Lankan cricket, and
has said first class structure should be overhauled on the lines of Australian
cricket.
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Sangakkara says India vulnerable overseas
There was a
time when you dialled Sri Lanka to knock India out of big competitions. They
did that famously in the 1996 and 2007 World Cups. They beat India in the Asia
Cup in 2008. They knocked India out of the World Twenty20 in the West Indies in
2010. At some time, though, the two teams' administrations became too friendly,
and started making the teams play against each other every other day. The sting
was taken out of the contest, and familiarity bred some insipidness. That India
have been dominating their neighbours of late would be an apt assessment.
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CB Series,
Kumar Sangakkara
Time for the big guns to fire
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In the
opening two matches for Sri Lanka, their three big guns failed to fire and that
led them to be at the bottom of the table needing to win tomorrow’s game to be
in contention. In both the matches all of them got starts and didn’t convert
them in to anything substantial. Thilakarathne Dilshan is the main culprit
since he got to 40s on both occasions and threw it away. Kumar Sangakkara was
never out of form but he too got out in bad situations. The major worry for the
Sri Lankans is the form of their captain. Mahela Jayawadene looked very
scratchy against india in the 1st game. Although he looked better
against the aussies, we are yet to see the silicon touches that we are so used
to see. It is time one of these three go
on to make a big one and let the in-form youngsters to play with freedom.
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CB Series,
Lasith Malinga,
Sri Lanka
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Sri Lankan cricketers are playing for pride, make no mistake about it
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We just cannot think of any other professional group in Sri Lanka to keep
working without being paid for so long. There would be a strike right away. One
can say that the cricketers earn a lot so they can do without salaries for some time. If
you happen to think the same way, then think again. That maybe right for few of
the established players but not for the youngsters who are starting their
careers. Sri Lankan cricketers are playing for pride, make no mistake about it.
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Saturday, February 11, 2012
India should take a cue from the never-say-die spirit of Sri Lanka
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In spite all
the troubles Sri Lanka are facing at the moment, their attitude towards the
game should really be commended. If we take the last four matches they played,
their never-say-die attitude was really in show. Chasing 300 plus totals in
consecutive matches does say a lot about the attitude of a team. Even the last
two games, though they lost, was real proof of that quality.
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Now they know who Angelo is
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Finally, the
attention of the Australians turns to Angelo Mathews. Just over a year ago, he
brought Sri Lanka out of a cricket match that was all but lost. Though he couldn’t
repeat the heroics this time, the quality of the man and the fighter within
will not go unnoticed.
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Angelo Mathews
Mahela.. the mastermind tactician returns
Mahela
Jayawardene was arguably the best captain that Sri Lanka has ever had. In this turmoil
of Sri Lankan cricket, if anything good has happened, it’s the reappointment of
Mahela because Its absolutely a pleasure to watch his tactics and sheer brilliance
as a captain. For the sake of cricket in Sri Lanka, its time he brings back his
silicon touches with the bat.
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Friday, February 10, 2012
Australia hold on for five-run victory
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Angelo
Mathews narrowly failed to deliver victory to Sri Lanka at the WACA, where
Australia held on by five runs in a thrilling finish. Sri Lanka needed 18 from
the final over bowled by Mitchell Starc, and Mathews gave them every chance by
pulling the first ball for four and driving the next delivery over long-off for
six, before a pair of singles left the visitors needing six from two balls.
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Sharp Sri Lanka keep Australia to 231
A sharp fielding performance from Sri Lanka gave them the upper hand at the WACA, but some handy late runs from Australia's tail ensured they stayed in the game. Mahela Jayawardene's decision to send Australia in was unexpected but it proved a reasonable move as his five main bowlers took two wickets each. Australia's batsmen struggled for rhythm and were dismissed for 231 from the first ball of the 50th over.
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Thursday, February 9, 2012
Jayawardene targets Australian attack
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The
triangular series needs a strong Sri Lanka, especially after their slow start
to the tournament on Wednesday night in Perth. The much-criticised format finds
itself in a strange situation even before the end of the first of the four legs
of the league stage. The crowds are coming to Australia games only - the
India-Sri Lanka game was watched by fewer than 7000 at the WACA - but it's when
India played Sri Lanka that we got the only close international game of the
summer, across formats. Then again the close game lacked the quality and
intensity Australia have brought. Clearly we need both India and Sri Lanka to
run Australia close to prevent the return of the bad old days of the
triangular, which starts to feel bloated if one team is significantly more
dominant than the others.
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Settled hosts meet hesitant visitors
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An
Australian side in the pinkest of form meet Sri Lankan opponents with plenty of
improve upon following a first-up loss to India in a mediocre match that was
also at the WACA ground. While the tourists will benefit from having played a
match at the ground, a series of starts with the bat, some middling bowling and
hesitance in the field - from the newly-appointed captain Mahela Jayawardene's
field placements as much as his men's occasionally indifferent attacks on the
ball - must be rectified if they are to get close to the hosts.
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Team combination did not cause loss - Jayawardene
Mahela
Jayawardene, in his first match back as Sri Lanka captain, made an interesting
move in not picking a specialist spinner. Sri Lanka lost a close match, but
Jayawardene did not think the team combination was the reason. "If we had
taken the last four wickets, you would have said, 'good combination'. We felt
the pitch was such that four seamers would probably do the job for us. Picking
up wickets is very crucial against India. We went with bowlers we thought could
do that."
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Wednesday, February 8, 2012
All-round Ashwin stars in hard-fought win
India's
feted openers exited early, and the inexperienced middle order succumbed to old
failings, but their bowling allrounders Ravindra Jadeja and R Ashwin showed
admirable poise to steer a wobbly chase home. Virat Kohli's authoritative 77
set the agenda, but India began to falter when he had cramps around the
mid-point of the innings. His exit, run out while attempting a hopeless single,
left India's lower order 53 tricky runs to get. Ashwin and Jadeja did the rest,
braving the Lasith Malinga threat and the epidemic of nerves that had blighted
the middle order.
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Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Preview for the CB series
For Sri
Lankan cricket fans, the CB series starts tomorrow. This series is mostly
important to us than the other two teams because of mayhem that Sri Lankan
cricket is now in. Let’s take a look in to the future of the tournament.
Despite all the changes that took place recently, the team composition stays
more or less the same and from cricketing point of view that should be a good
thing. Yes we lost tournament after tournament and the form of most of the
player were below par. If you believe in change of personal will bring back the
results, then we might as well play a completely different team because
whatever happen on the field, the entire team is responsible for them, not just
the captain, not just the senior players. These players are responsible for
where we are now and we should give the opportunity to take us out of it. In my
opinion they are on their way for that.
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Batting unit : whatever said and done, this will be
headed by Thilakarathne Dilshan. He is so important at the top order not only
because he scores quickly but also his sheer presence can unsettle the
opposition bowlers. Mahela Jayawardene will come in to the middle order and
probably in place of Lahiru Thirimanne. Dinesh Chandimal was the best batsmen
in South Africa so he should not have any problems with his number 4 spot.
Mahela
Jayawardene, Kumar Sangakkara, Thilakarathne Dilshan, Upul Tharanga, Dinesh
Chandimal, Thilan Samaraweera, Lahiru Thirimanne
Bowling unit : is unsurprisingly will be headed by
Lasith Malinga. Early wickets from him and Nuwan Kulasekara will go a long way
towards success. There will be an interesting choice for the spot of third
seamer between Chanaka Welagedara, Dhammika Prasad and Farveez Maharoof. It’s
hard to think of two spinners playing on those conditions, so Rangana Herath
might get the nod.
Rangana
Herath, Nuwan Kulasekara, Farveez Maharoof, Lasith Malinga, Dhammika Prasad, Sachithra
Senanayake, Chanaka Welagedara
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All-rounders : Thisara Perera is almost a certainty
to play because of his heroics in South Africa and also he did an equitable job
with the bowl too. Though on form, Angello Mathews and not Lahiru Thirimanne should
lose the place to Mahela Jayawardene but since he is the wise captain, it’s
hard to see former being dropped.
Angello Mathews
,Thisara Perera
One to watch
: Dinesh Chandimal was the player of the tour for Sri Lanka in South Africa
where he performed splendidly under pressure. On an even bigger stage, he just
might bring out something special.
NDM : cricsl.blogspot.com
World Cup finalists meet in very different circumstances
Just over 10
months have passed since that Wankhede night, last April. Within that
period, the fates of the two teams that brought the best out of each other in
that memorable World Cup final have nose-dived in bizarre style. India have
been mercilessly stripped of their No. 1 Test ranking, the sunset on their
golden generation of batsmen hastened by eight successive away drubbings. But
their one-day outfit still holds promise, with the energy of fresh legs and the
power of broad bats, for the moment at least, masking the worry of poor
techniques on quick pitches.
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Mahela Jayawardene,
Thisara Perera
Islanders face high tide
Seated
deep inside the folds of the WACA, a leader is found brooding intensely over
his big-hearted but small-pocketed men. Mahela Jayawardene’s Sri Lankan team,
the third wheel of this tri-series, has witnessed a sea change in its
cricketing structure. A change that crippled its old administration and ensured
that none of its current players will receive a dime for their efforts in
Australia this year. While Team Sri Lanka is still awaiting its payments over
the last one year, news of Jayawardene being bought for $ 1.4 million by the
Delhi Daredevils seeped through on the flight to Perth.
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Monday, February 6, 2012
Beware of the Slinga...
Speedster
Lasith Malinga is undoubtedly one of the key components of ODI plans of Sri
Lanka, who are currently trying to win back the reputation as one of the top
international teams and arguably the best pace bowler in the world at the
moment when considering the limited over game. It is a shame that he is retired
from Tests because he brings a real spectacle to whatever the format he plays.
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Looking back now, it astonishes to see
how he has overcome those obstacles and his record in limited overs cricket speaks
for himself. 167 ODI wickets at an average of 24 and a strike rate of 30. But
the most impressive stat is his economy rate of under 5 runs an over which is
remarkable for a bowler who has the most difficult action and for a bowler who
almost all the time bowls at situations where batsmen are looking to step on
the accelerator. 28 year old Sri Lankan also has managed to achieve milestones
which were never seen before at international level. The most famous of those
being his 4 wickets in 4 consecutive deliveries against South Africa at 2007
world cup and also he is the only bowler to have 3 international hat-tricks.
For the upcoming CB series, Sri Lanka will need their leading strike bowler to
fire from all cylinders for them to get back to winning ways. There is no doubt
that his bag of tricks, including is most lethal toe crushing yokers will be
needed to surmount batsmen like Micheal Clarke, Ricky Ponting and Sachin
Tendulkar. It will be an interesting battle so let’s not miss the slinga in
action.
-NDM
Final moments of a great victory
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Lasith Malinga
Sunday, February 5, 2012
Jayawardene eyeing finisher's role at Daredevils
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We just need to find that killer instinct - Jayawardene
Australia's commanding one-day international form on home soil will make them the outstanding favourites to claim the Commonwealth Bank Series Tri-nation cricket tournament which begins in Melbourne today with a game between the hosts and India."We're the No.1 one-day team in the world so I'd like to think that we're favourites," Australian captain Michael Clarke said yesterday. However, Clarke admitted the two sub-continent teams, India and Sri Lanka can provide a shock despite playing in alien conditions out of their comfort zone. "But in saying that we have to be at our best. We have to play at our best to beat both these teams. They were both in the final of our most recent World Cup. We know the conditions very well in Australia and I'm confident if we play our best cricket we can win this series," added Clarke.
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Saturday, February 4, 2012
We may be down… but not out
There’s no
hiding the fact that Sri Lanka Cricket is on the downward curve since becoming
the runners up of the world cup 2011. 4 Test series, 4 ODI series, 3 tours have
gone by without ever getting to touch silverware. The closest we got were in
South Africa where one more win could have made the script to be written in a
different language but, all these are history. Now we can talk about how badly
we played in those matches, how badly we lost a test match in a session against
England, how poor our batsmen were against spin in UAE, how badly they coped
with the bounce at Paarl, how ineffective our Test attack against South Africa
erratic our fielding were most of the time but, let’s not.
Let’s talk about
how our players managed their own game because they had no excuses all along.
They never complained about the pitches like our neighbors did, They didn’t call
for turning pitches at home like our neighbors did, they didn’t say we beat
them at home too like our neighbors did and they didn’t even say a word about
their payments. Yes they have lost, all teams do but, they accepted
responsibility for the failures and stayed professional throughout and that
deserves a pat on the back.
Here comes
the opportunity for them to make the last 8 months vanish in to the history.
Australia is almost unbeatable at home (although we did last time) and how bad
their recent record may be, India are the world champions. So this won’t be
plain sailing by any stretch of the imagination but anyone who write Sri Lanka
off from the upcoming CB series, can do it at their own peril because Sri
Lankan Cricket is far from being bowled. -NDM
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Friday, February 3, 2012
Duty calls again as revolving door stops at Jayawardene
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Having
three captains within a year is proof enough that all is not rosy with Sri
Lankan cricket.The new leader, for a second stint, Mahela Jayawardene, makes no
attempt to gloss over the problems on and off the field but his determination
to play a key role is remedying at least the former.Wicketkeeper-batsman
Kumar Sangakkara resigned the captaincy after the World Cup final loss to India
last year and Sri Lanka's selectors also felt a duty to depart.
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Mahela Jayawardene
PM's XI abandoned due to rain
The
Prime Minister's XI match against Sri Lanka in Canberra has been abandoned due
to incessant rain.The match between Brad Haddin's young squad and Mahela
Jayawardene's national team was due to start at 10:00am (AEDT) on Friday at
Manuka Oval, but was postponed early hoping a light drizzle would clear.ACT
cricket officials kept pushing the start time further back from 11:00am to
12:00pm to finally 2:00pm before calling it quits.It was to be a key warm-up
match for Sri Lanka ahead of the one-day series against Australia and India and
was also the biggest day on the ACT Cricket calendar.
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Thursday, February 2, 2012
Majestic innings from Sangakkara
192 against Australia at Hobart on 20th November 2007. This innings is considered by many as one of the best Test innigs ever where he almost took Sri Lanka to a historic win chasing 507 but it was all ended with an unfortunate umpiring call...
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Kumar Sangakkara
Sri Lanka aim to rise above money worries
New
Sri Lankan skipper Mahela Jayawardene is adamant his unpaid squad can put their
money woes and off-field dramas behind them to turn around what's been a bleak
patch of Test and one-day results.Since finishing runner-up to India at last
year's World Cup, Sri Lanka's form has slumped, falling to series losses to
England, Australia, Pakistan and most recently South Africa.
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Jayawardene happy to hold poisoned chalice again
Reinstated skipper Mahela Jayawardene says Sri Lanka can
overcome a week of turmoil and do what India couldn't - challenge Australia on
home soil.The World Cup runners-up arrive in Canberra today ahead of tomorrow's
match with the PM's XI at Manuka Oval still stinging from a less-than-perfect
start to its one-day international tour, losing to a Victorian 2nd XI by 23
runs in Melbourne yesterday.
Sri Lanka was rocked last week when Tillakaratne Dilshan
stepped down as captain after just nine months in the job, coach Geoff Marsh
following him out the door two days later.Jayawardene led his country from 2004
until 2009 and is doing his best to separate the off-field dramas from the task
at hand.
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CB Series,
Mahela Jayawardene
Sri Lanka ready for pace: Geoff Marsh
THE Sri
Lankan side should have no difficulties adjusting to Australia's livelier
wickets, having just come off a Test and one-day series in South Africa, sacked
Sri Lanka coach Geoff Marsh warned yesterday.
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Lanka well prepared for Australia series
The
Sri Lankan players are unlikely to struggle on the bouncy Australian pitches in
the upcoming tri-series as they have performed well in similar conditions in
South Africa, the island nation's sacked coach Geoff Marsh said. India have struggled
to cope with the conditions and lost the Test series 0-4 apart from losing the first
Twenty20 match against Australia on Wednesday. But, according to the former
Australian opening batsman, Sri Lanka won't face much problem.
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Geoff Marsh
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Lankans look forward, not back, says Malinga
THE
marvel of Sri Lanka's last visit to Melbourne, slinging speedster Lasith
Malinga, says his team will not get cocky from winning its past two one-day
international series against Australia.Malinga carried the drinks yesterday in
a depleted Sri Lanka XI's 23-run loss against the Victoria 2nd XI. In late 2010
he provided the highlight of the lightning limited-overs series before the
Ashes with a pivotal half-century against Australia at the MCG.
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CB Series,
Lasith Malinga
Unpaid Sri Lanka playing for love
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This
summer's tri-series will be played against the backdrop of a worrying pay
dispute for Sri Lanka's players who are owed as much as $US5 million ($A4.7
million) due to a cash crisis within the country's governing body.As Mahela
Jayawardene's team battles the world's top two one-day international sides on
the field in this month's tri-series, off the field its player union will be
taking on a cash-strapped board in a row that threatens to send cricket on the
island nation further into turmoil.
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