Srilanka in West Indies 2008

[MohammedC]

Fixtures
Sri Lanka tour of West Indies, 2007/08

March 2008
Mon 17 - Wed 19	Guyana President's Select XI v Sri Lankans Providence Stadium, Guyana
Sat 22 - Wed 26 10:00 local, 14:00 GMT	1st Test - West Indies v Sri Lanka Providence Stadium, Guyana
Sat 29 - Mon 31	West Indies A v Sri Lankans Shaw Park, Scarborough, Tobago
April 2008
Thu 3 - Mon 7 10:00 local, 14:00 GMT	2nd Test - West Indies v Sri Lanka Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain, Trinidad
Thu 10 09:30 local, 13:30 GMT	1st ODI - West Indies v Sri Lanka Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain, Trinidad
Sat 12 09:30 local, 13:30 GMT	2nd ODI - West Indies v Sri Lanka Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain, Trinidad
Tue 15 14:30 local, 18:30 GMT	3rd ODI - West Indies v Sri Lanka Beausejour Stadium, Gros Islet, St Lucia

[MohammedC]

Srilanka batting well after winning the toss

72/0

[One World]

At last someone opened a thread on this .
Thanks Mo.

[Sovik]

SL are 103/0. they are gonna score 400+

[One World]

Any free link, could not find one

[Sohel]

Why is Malinga NOT playing?

BTW, it's 137-1 now, watching live on Ten Sports, and Malinda Warnapura's just as good as I thought he'd be ...

The pitch isn't offering much to the Windies bowlers, but Taylor managed to take BD basher MVD, and the SLA Sulieman managed to turn the ball on occasion.

SL will win this one BIG Inshallah, with Sanga also looking good in the middle.

[Yasin]

225/2 (76 overs)

Sangakkara 44*
Jayawardene 5*

Warnapura taken by Bravo for 120

[Sovik]

its gonna be hard to play murali. he will get 15+ wickets in this series

[al-Sagar]

also herath wil be a dangerous chap to deal with

[MohammedC]

Srilanka are batting too cautiously or should I say sensibly. This is the middle of second day with no weather disraption till now and they have managed to score 384/6.

Jaywardena on verge of another century 99*

[Sovik]

Sri Lanka 415/6 (145.2 ov)

Current partnership 84 runs, 24.3 overs, RR: 3.42 (Vaas 24, DPMD Jayawardene 59)

[Sohel]

SL 476-8 dec. (Mahela 136, Malinda 120, Vaas 54, Sanga 50; Taylor 4/110, 33 overs, NO w&nb)

WI 29-1 (Sarwan 21, Gayle, 11 ball ; Vaas 5-2-10-1, NO w&nb)

EoD 2.

MY BOYS ARE DRIVING THE BUS ... ... (and running over MY OTHER BOYS ... )

[Sohel]

DS bites the dust ... gadha! ... excellent catch taken really low by PJ. What a great WK he IS !

46-2, Samuels is in ... 4 right away, eased down to TM ... 50-2

[Sohel]

Good over from Magina Thilan Thushara Mirando, what a great bowling pipeline the Lankans must have.

19.2 Mirando to Smith, OUT, Thushara gets the first breakthrough, Thushara lands that just outside off and gets it to straighten, the ball keeps lower than Smith expected and a lazy waft away from his body results in a thin edge to Prasanna Jayawardene. There was no doubt about that edge

DS Smith c HAPW Jayawardene b Mirando 14 (43b 0x4 0x6) SR: 32.55

[MohammedC]

If Sarwan & Samuel dont build a big partnership they will be in trouble.
This pitch in Providence Guyana is spin friendly as we have already found out from Bangladesh V Saffers last year.
I can imagine Murali is licking his finger with Big Grin on his face and pair of eyes that is bigger than cricket ball. That is a frightening sight for any batsmen.

[Sohel]

Right you are MC, although I'm not so sure about Marlon, as gifted as he is and as capable as he can be.

Laigga jaiteo pare, nao jaite pare ...

Chandra will do better as always.

[MohammedC]

You are right Sohel Bhai Marlon can get impatient and try to take risk. No doubt about his talent but too much doubt about his game plan. Very much Ashrafool like dont you think?

[Sohel]

Interesting how their Tushar(a) looks vaguely like a thinner version of our Monju ... dur shaumporker cousin mone-hauy.


Tushar(a)



Monju

[Sohel]

Originally Posted by MohammedC
You are right Sohel Bhai Marlon can get impatient and try to take risk. No doubt about his talent but too much doubt about his game plan. Very much Ashrafool like dont you think?

Ash, Marlon and Pakistan's Imran Nazir are all like that.

And he's GONE ! Tushara gets another one.

58-3 and Chandra's in.

If the Lankans can break this partnership before it forms, they'll have this match in the bag by lunch on day 5 at the latest.

[Sohel]

25.1 Mirando to Samuels, OUT, poor shot by Samuels... Thushara drifts really wide outside off and gets it to shape away, Samuels stays rooted to the crease and tries to glide that wide of the slips, he gets a thick edge to Prasanna who falls to his right and cups it with both hands. It was not a wicket-taking delivery, just a very poor shot

MN Samuels c HAPW Jayawardene b Mirando 5 (24m 19b 1x4 0x6) SR: 26.31

There you go MC ...

[Tigers_eye]

hmm!! Fernando, Malinga, Maharoof, Nuwan Kulasekara, Ruchira Perera, Amerashinge, Dammika Prasad, Pradeep Jayaprakashdaran.... ar koto??

Now this new chap is eating up WI? I hope our SL coach can produce half of the players (Number wise) they have.

[MohammedC]

West Indies also have another problem. Ryan Hinds Injured and probably wont bat.

[Sohel]

Originally Posted by Tigers_eye
hmm!! Fernando, Malinga, Maharoof, Nuwan Kulasekara, Ruchira Perera, Amerashinge, Dammika Prasad, Pradeep Jayaprakashdaran.... ar koto??

Now this new chap is eating up WI? I hope our SL coach can produce half of the players (Number wise) they have.

Amen brother.

[Sohel]

Originally Posted by MohammedC
West Indies also have another problem. Ryan Hinds Injured and probably wont bat.

Bummer. I saw him bat rather well in the Stanford 20/20. Wavell did OK too. I feel he needs to come back and rekindle that opening partnership with the Caribbean Sehwag.

DS is really ordinary as is Parchment.

67-3, trailing by 409 and not looking too hot.

[Sovik]

Refresh scorecard											Test career
	Batsmen	Runs	B	4s	6s	SR	This bowler		Last 10 ovs			Mat	Runs	Ave
	*RR Sarwan (rhb)	47	96	4	0	48.95		11 (25b)	9 (26b)			68	4350	39.18
	S Chanderpaul (lhb)	9	30	0	0	30.00		4 (14b)	9 (30b)			108	7438	47.37