Posted on February 28th, 2009 by damiths
1 century stand.
2 scores of more than 50.
4 batsmen.
18 innings.
12 long months.
Sanaths gone. SL are yet to move on. 4 different combinations have been tried and still Sri Lanka cant find a decent opening pair cool enough to match Marvan and Sanath.
Vandort, too often he planted his giraffe legs on off stump and nicked it [...]
Filed under: Tharanga Paranavitana, mahela udawatte, malinda warnapura, prasanna jayawardene, vandort | 4 Comments »
Posted on February 27th, 2009 by damiths
The premier leagues have been decided, its now time for the domestic inter-prov tournament in SL.
Most people probably don’t know about it but SL has a 2 tier 4 day game tournament followed by the Inter-Provincial Tournament, also played over 4 days.
Lesser teams - 5
Tougher competition.
Bashnahira North have been in thumping form winning both their [...]
Filed under: Inter-Provincial Tournament, anjelo mathews, basnahira north, basnahira south, dammika prasad, lahiru thirimanne, thilina kandamby, tier a, tier b | No Comments »
Posted on February 26th, 2009 by damiths
On the shores of New Zealand.
Think - Sheep, greenery, Martin Crowe and the youngest nation on earth, according to www.newzealand.com- surely they cant be wrong.
India are there after about 7 years or so, when NZ had their way with India. In fact, out of the 7 test series played between the two countries, India have [...]
Filed under: new zealand v india | 3 Comments »
Posted on February 26th, 2009 by damiths
And it had been for over 2 days now.
Until the customary ‘late in the 5th day drama’ which intrigues all of us, gets the cricinfo commentators excited but amounts to nothing in the end.
Mahela,as ever, spoke about the positives. Sri Lanka’s batting which has been a worry over the last month had to put up [...]
Filed under: Tharanga Paranavitana, ajantha mendis, mahela jayawardane, malinda warnapura, sangakkara, shoaib malik, sri lanka v pakistan, test cricket, tilan samaraweera, younis khan | 6 Comments »
Posted on February 25th, 2009 by damiths
Even Q over at Well Pitched doesn’t seem to know this. What kind of blogger is he anyway, don’t even know his players names.
Whatever the fuck his name is, I hope he fucking gets the 400. Because that would be the ONLY pissing highlight of this game.
You cant blame either side for whats transpired over [...]
Filed under: sri lanka v pakistan, younis khan | 10 Comments »
Posted on February 25th, 2009 by damiths
True Story.
Friend and long time reader of theflyslip, Sachintha, has nominated us to be on published on a book of the top 100 posts by Sri Lankans.
Our post on The Legend of Splendid Mendis is the one that got the nod.
Have you read it, if you havent you must, or just wait for the book [...]
Filed under: flyslip | 2 Comments »
Posted on February 24th, 2009 by damiths
There is 10 overs to go on the 4th day.
Normally that would be quite an exciting time in a test match.
We are most likely in the thick of the 3rd innings of the game. A team fighting hard to set a total. Or another team trying to avoid defeat or getting ready for a tricky [...]
Filed under: sri lanka v pakistan, younis khan | 2 Comments »
Posted on February 24th, 2009 by damiths
Its been a long time coming and I know all of you have not forgotten and have been waiting patiently for it for over two months now.
So here it is. Vote for the final two players in the Greatest, and make no mistake the Greatest ODI XI EVER! (based on your votes).
The Amazing, Astounding XI [...]
Filed under: Fantasy teams, flyslip | 4 Comments »
Posted on February 23rd, 2009 by damiths
3 days into it in Karachi and the game looks like heading into a drawn out bore. Pakistan’s return to test cricket has been largely insignificant other than the fact that they are actually playing the 5 day version.
Nearly a 1000 runs have been scored in the 9 sessions so far for 9 wickets. I’m [...]
Filed under: sri lanka v pakistan, umar gul | 4 Comments »
Posted on February 23rd, 2009 by damiths
Sri Lanka
Making the best use of a flat pitch Sri Lanka have piled on the runs and misery. It was so good that they broke a world record. So one sided that Thilan scored a double ton. 230 at 72 is something you can hardly ignore.
It has upped his average 3 pts to 48 in [...]
Filed under: ajantha mendis, danish kaneria, dilhara, dilshan, mahela jayawardane, mendis, murali, shoaib malik, splendid mendis, sri lanka v pakistan, tilan samaraweera, vass, younis khan | 2 Comments »
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