World Cricket II

[steveaustin]

Lakmal to Gayle, OUT, and gets Gayle for his first Test wicket! it was the surprise bouncer, Chris went for the pull despite there being two men on the deep leg side boundary, and the top edge went miles in the air, and deep square leg settled under it after going back and forth for a while, and took it cleanly in the end, big wicket for Sri Lanka

No Gayle storm this time.

[P_R]

adhu ennamO theriyalai. Gayle out aanA manasukku romba sandhOshamA irukku (even if it is a match in which I am rooting for the WIndies)

[Plum]

Why yA?

[P_R]

Chris Gayle, Kieron Pollard, Ricardo Powell, Shahid Afridi, Yusuf Pathan - ivainga yaaraiyumE enakku pudikkAdhu.

[steveaustin]

no dAdAs.....

[Plum]

Oh, yesuthattic affensA?>

[P_R]

I was seeing 92 world cup Ind-Aus match.
The quaint non-professionalism is so idyllic
guppy bats, large fields etc.

Dean Jones was just earning it with timing. There were some risky mistimes hoicks but were genuinely thrilling to watch. Very very few chances of despatching a ball from Brisbane to Adeleide etc.

The selfsame Dean Jones recommends powerplay in the ICC committee as a way "to break the 400 barrier"

As Daklas aNnan asked: ippo sandhOsamA?

[ajithfederer]

Lazy elegance mark waugh. He is a film star on a cricket pitch. His batting is laziness and style at the correct mix. The legside jabs are a pleasure to watch. Here in this match Mark waugh battles on a tough pitch when both the teams were bundled for low scores in the first innings. He plays an absolute gritty knock to chase a 4th innings target of 270. This was a breakthrough tour for Australia in SA 1997/(98??). The waugh brothers tormented Cronje's men in both Test and ODI series.

I remember Bevan and Steve Waugh pulled a heist after being 60 or 80/5 against SA Bowling in an ODI match that tour. That match also had gilchrist coming late in the order and smack a couple of 4's to win much to the annoyance of the Proteas. If i am not wrong the OZ's won both the Test and ODI tours that year in SA. It's true that Ozzies have MOSTLY owned the Proteas in both the forms of cricket over the last decade or so(the only exception's being (the 434 chase and the proteas winning a test series in 08/09). I am happy that atleast India continues to be a thorn in the flesh for the Ozzies in the Test arena.

The present Indian team has a lot to learn from the OZzies if it wants to hold onto its test ranking for a considerable period of time. There are a lots of lessons to learn from THE 90's and the early 00's.

[steveaustin]

West Indies 14/1 (5.3 ov)
Sri Lanka

0.1
Lakmal to Gayle, OUT, plumb lbw first ball! what a start for Sri Lanka and Pallekele. The big wicket of Chris Gayle, Lakmal sets off on a celebration, it was pitching on offstump and came in a touch, Gayle was looking to defend but misses, hit on the knee roll and Rauf raises the finger, it would have gone on to hit middle and off

CH Gayle lbw b Lakmal 0 (1b 0x4 0x6) SR: 0.00

"This is amazing from Gayle. First innings of first test he scores 333 (3 digits) and then he scores 30 + (2 digits) and next 3 (1 digit) and finally no score ...Whenever Gayle plays a big innings, he always ends up with such low scores."

"Gayle - Gayle! We so seldom see a run of good scores; a big one, a couple fifties, then some 20's and 30's and then worse ... and just when even his faithful (like me) are wondering about his worthiness, he smacks out a barrel of runs. He's the Carl Hooper of his generation - so frustrating!"

[raajarasigan]

WI 69/1 - Bad Light stopped play..

Darren Bravo 44* 74 7 0 59.46 very promising cricketer for WI.. another interesting point is his batting style. athula Lara theriyaraaru..