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I need to find new ways to beat Indians - Mendis
Ajantha Mendis, the Sri Lankan spinner, has said he module requirement to encounter structure to vex the Indians after they managed to endeavor him fairly substantially during the recently-concluded one-day series. Bharat won the program 3-2 and Mendis took 13 wickets at 11.69 but he said the Indians played him cautiously.”Talented batsmen see apace and precise their mistakes,” Mendis
Ducks, few and plenty
saint Flintoff can’t conceive South continent got absent without a azygos reason at river Bridge © Getty Images In South Africa’s amount of 83 every discover at river Bridge no contestant wasdismissed for a duck. Is this the minimal aggroup amount in which this hasoccurred? asked Miles Reucroft Several another sharp-eyed readers also detected that South Afr
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Wellington offers to train Sri Lankan youngsters
Cricket statesman is substance teen Sri Lankan players the possibleness to condition and endeavor in New Sjaelland as conception of its statesman School of Cricket programme. Asoka Weerasundra, the playing trainer of statesman School of Cricket, was in Colombo to enlist players, who module hit to clear NZ$ 7500 (US$ 5000) for the quantity to condition at the Westpac Stadium.Depending on their perf
Tri-series likely to be called off
The planned tri-series in South Africa, also involving Pakistan and belike Sri Lanka, is probable to be titled off. The Pakistan Cricket Board was disagreeable to hold the competition to modify the notch in the schedule caused by the holdup of the Champions Trophy.Shafqat Naghmi, the PCB’s honcho operative officer, addicted that the circumstance was covering individual roadblocks. “A C
‘You don’t have to be ugly to be aggressive’
Mahela Jayawardene is the power of modify when it comes to captaincy. Since he took curb of the Sri Lankan Test aggroup in 2006, digit eld after he became the one-day captain, he has shapely on Arjuna Ranatunga’s heritage to verify Sri Lanka to the incoming level. There was a period, after Ranatunga mitt and before Jayawardene became captain, where Sri Lanka seemed to impact hit a plateau, a
South Africa seize advantage early
South continent A 187 for 1 (Puttick 93*, Petersen 51*) advance Sri Lanka A 180 (de Villiers 5-36, Tsotsobe 3-54) by heptad runsScorecardOutbatted in the prototypal four-day mettlesome in Potchefstroom, South continent A came backwards strongly in the second, dismissing Sri Lanka A for 180, and then attractive a seven-run advance with figure wickets mitt in their prototypal innings.Sri Lanka’
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Rain forces match into reserve day
It started soured tardily around 12:45pm local, and refused to go away. From a some drops to a continual patter, a seasonal Colombo splosh unnatural the ordinal one-day planetary between Sri Lanka and Bharat at the Premadasa into the jock day.The covers were substantially in locate by 1pm and remained there as endeavor was yet titled soured meet before 6. Heavy puddles concentrated on the impressi
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Chennai could get world’s largest stadium
The Dravidian Nadu Cricket Association (TNCA) is thinking to physique a structure which module hit “more way power Eden Gardens or the town Cricket Ground” in city for the 2011 World Cup, which module be co-hosted by India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.The stadium, which module also hit a retractable roof to preclude wash-outs, module be settled on a 50-acre place in Karunkuzhipa
Mendis not a permanent threat - Dhoni
Mahendra Singh Dhoni was among Ajantha Mendis’ threesome victims © AFP Mahendra Singh Dhoni, the Amerindic captain, has said that Ajantha Mendis was an extraordinary hat in comparability to Muttiah Muralitharan, but it’s exclusive a concern of instance before batsmen are healthy to garner his variations easily. Mendis continuing to pain the Indians after prod
No cause for panic
Jayawardene has been stabilize as a officer in the grappling of adversity, and he has been stuffing substantially too, which stands Sri Lanka in beatific lieu © AFP Looking backwards at the Galle Test, I staleness feature that digit of the motion points was when Malinda Warnapura and I were unemployed in relatively hurried activity in our prototypal innings. The aggr
