World Cricket II

[ajithfederer]

Uploaded by kapurprem on Mar 17, 2012

A good exhibition of reverse swing bowling..

No wonder Lee is against the two new ball rule.

[littlemaster1982]

FAO - PR.

England boil over as Sri Lankan Perera refuses to walk in Colombo





England opened their tour with a convincing victory by an innings and 15 runs against a Sri Lankan Board XI at the Premadasa Stadium.

However, the match was overshadowed by an ugly incident in Saturday's afternoon session which saw captain Andrew Strauss and several of his players involved in a heated row with both umpires and opposition batsman Dilruwan Perera.

It followed a passage of play which had seen Perera edge a James Anderson delivery to first slip.

To the naked eye, the catch looked good as Strauss dived forward to scoop the ball up into his hands.

Yet Perera, a 29-year-old off-spinner who has played four one-day internationals, insisted the ball had not carried and, after consultation between Sri Lankan umpires Ravindra Kottahachchi and Ravindra Wimalasiri, he was reprieved.

It led to an unsavoury confrontation involving England's players, led by Strauss, Perera and both umpires, which threatened to boil over. Anderson later admitted a valuable lesson has been learned about cricket in the subcontinent, where suffocating humidity and slow wickets can often see tempers rise in direct correlation with the temperature.

'It was just frustrating,' he said. 'With Straussy being the honest upstanding citizen that he is, he wouldn't lie about something like that. You have to take his word on it and the other slip and keeper thought he'd taken it, too.

'Add the heat into it and it was a good lesson for us. Situations like that are going to be hard to deal with in the Test matches and we have to deal with them well.

'You're working very hard to take wickets, and seamers aren't going to bowl a huge amount of overs in a spell, so when you get someone out, it is frustrating to have it taken away.

'We could have handled it better but I'm sure it's something we'll talk about.'

The argument, which took place with their opponents in a hopeless position on 63-7, shows how seriously England are taking these warm-up games before their two-Test series against Sri Lanka, which starts in Galle on Monday week.

It is also evidence of the burning desire among England's players to set the record straight following their humiliating 3-0 Test series whitewash against Pakistan in the UAE.

There were numerous positives to take from the Colombo game.

The runs of Alastair Cook, whose unbeaten 163 allowed England to declare on 303-8 overnight, and wickets yesterday for a previously out-of-sorts Graeme Swann were two, while Anderson finished with match figures of 7-40 as the Sri Lankan Board XI were bowled out for just 119 in 56.4 strength-sapping overs.

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Ennaa pechu pesareengada dei

[wizzy]

Ennaa pechu pesareengada dei

<Russle mode> defineaatly

[P_R]

I'd like to believe it would've been close and Strauss wasn't blatantly cheating. Else it runs counter to what we know of him.
Was the reprieve based on replays or 'benefit of doubt'. Looks like the latter.

edhuvA irundhaalum, thittappadaadhu. appuRam Pontingkum namakkum enna vidhyAsam.

[mgb]

edhuvA irundhaalum, thittappadaadhu. appuRam Pontingkum namakkum enna vidhyAsam.

oru vidhyAsamum illa.. ore kuttaiyil ooriya mattaigaldane

[littlemaster1982]

England indha maadhiri prachnai pannadhu kooda paravayillai. Veyil adhigam-nu Anderson-e sollittaan. Aana indha honest upstanding citizen-laam romba over Where was this honest upstanding Strauss when he nicked the ball to Dhoni in WC?

[P_R]

oru vidhyAsamum illa.. ore kuttaiyil ooriya mattaigaldane

Nevaire. Gentlemanukkum convictukkum uLLa vidhyAsamnu pala varushamA maindain paNNittu varOm.

Anderson: "It was unfortunate that Straussy's word was not taken"
Strauss: "What happened on the field today was unfortunate. I admit I was disappointed that my word wasn't taken. But I shouldn't've let the heat of the moment override me. We would like to put this behind us and look forward to the rest of the tour"
Flower: "In an environment without access to technology -the least of which is TV replay- the standing of the individual concerned tends to be a factor in the decisioning process, usually. We look forward to an improvement in our game and the standards, from here"

[Plum]

Pandradhai ellaam pannittu I shouldn't have done. The convicts are better because thjey don't pretend like this. England are naadharis. Sorry for the term. Naasookku naadharisnu solla vandhEn. IvangaLai ellaam gewndilmennu nambum innocentgaLai enna solla? They have been like this for centuries. Ippo gene mARIdumA? Duplicity, thy name is Englishman. An Englishman is fit onyl for treasons, cunning and strategems.

[P_R]

Flau, just to clarify, I was trying to say how they ought to have handled it.

[P_R]

Flower's usage of usually- eppadi nuzhaichchEn pArunga- Asians are abnormal and what they play is not usual, regular stuff.... i appadinnu ungaLai mAdhiri aaLunga solra mAdhiriyum irukkaNum; that's just you folks overreading-nu ennaippOla aaLunga solla mudiyiRa aLavukkum irukkum.