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Old July 28, 2002, 10:44 AM
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I have not read what Wisden has said in full, but from the looks of the headline in www.wisden.com and from Cricinfo, I would say that both are exaggerating in negative and positive ways.

There is no way that this second test match is a B test match and there is no way that Bangladesh can win from here.

Again there is the possibility of "ould haves" which I assume none of you will like to listen.

Bangladesh could have smell the sign of first ever test victory if we had not dropped chances, misfielded - which things happened a lot often than the scorecard suggests.

SriLanka would have been at least 100 runs short of 300 by the end of the day if not for the following reasons:

1) Catch Dropped
2) Misfielding
3) Overthrow
4) "30" runs given away by SL umpire Peter Manual to Michael Vandort (by not giving the decision of caught behind off Talha Jubair's bowling and hence, the extra runs that Vandort attained after being given "nout out", is given away by the otherwise well-respected umpire.
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