Story (08)The Lankan battle,Bladescape vs. AOTF

[bladescape]

Ouch,I feel sorry for you!

That performance was similar to my 2nd ODI performance!
Average's to be updated tomorrow!

 

[bladescape]

Test:
Batting:
Gayle 206@51
M.Jayawardene 182@45
D.Smith 179@44

Bowling:
Miller 16 wickets,352 runs@22
Mendis 13 wickets,272 runs@20
Muralidaran 11 wickets,302 runs@27

ODI:
Batting:
Gayle 215@73
Jayawardene 187@93
Paranavitana 103@34

Bowling:
Vaas 6 wickets,96 runs@16
Muralidaran 6 wickets,118 runs@19
Jaggernauth 5 wickets,66 runs@13

Gayle and Jayawardene were dominating with the bat this tour.

Sorry that I was a bit slow with this!

 

[age of the fall]

Sri Lanka vs West Indies Tour

Test Batting.

Jayawardene 265
Gayle 256 @ 64
Chanderpaul 241 @ 80.3


Test Bowling

Sammy 14 @ 28.14
de Silva 13 35.77
Mendis 6 @ 23.33

One Day Int Batting

Chanderpaul 133 @ 44.33
Barath 104 34.66
Sangakarra 101 33.67

One Day Int Bowling.

Miller 6 @ 11.5
Bennett 5 @ 22.8
Fernando 5 @ 19.4

 

[surendar]

Chanderpaul is a real legend. And in that previous match, I always thought that Windies can collapse.. but it has happened other way here Tough luck!

 

[bladescape]

1st Test:
Sl:
Paranavitana
Vandort
M.Jayawardene
Sangakkara
Dilshan
Sameraweera
P.Jayawardene
Vaas
Malinga
Mendis
Muralidaran

Parana is now opening,with Dilshan filling the middle order,Zoysa is also replaced by Malinga.

SA:
G.Smith
Amla
Kallis
JP Duminy
Gibbs
AB.De Villiers
McMillian
C.De Villiers
Steyn
Zondeki

Interesting selections are young allrounder McMillian and left arm pacer De Villiers.

Match:
SL 1st innings:608
Vandort 163
Sameraweera 160

Steyn 6/151
Zondeki 2/139

SA 1st innings:225
Kallis 82
Amla 55

Muralidaran 4/53
Mendis 3/47

SA 2nd innings:294
Amla 64
AB.De Villiers 62

Muralidaran 4/90
Mendis 4/90

MOTM:Thilan Sameraweera.

Result:SL wins by an innings and 89 runs.

Reaction:
Steyn pegged me back early at 2/0!
Vandort and Sanga fought back with some onslaught from the rest of the batters,then spinners slaughtered the SAfrican batters!
Malinga was completely wicketless!

 

[age of the fall]

Sri Lanka

Sangakarra
Paranavitana
Jayawardene
Samaraweera
Silva
Vandort
Dilshan
Fernando
Murali
Welagedara
de Silva

South Africa

G.Smith
Amla
Kallis
Duminy
de Villairs
Gibbs
Boucher
Steyn
Zondeki
Ntini
Hewer

South Africa 257/10

Smith 57
Alma 52
Welagedara 4/84
Samaraweera 2/27

Sri Lanka 298/10

Sangakarra 97
Paranavitana 32
Hewer 4/57
Steyn 4/90

South Africa 413/10

Smith 147
Gibbs 70
Welagedara 5/103
Fernando 2/79

Sri Lanka 218/10

Sangakarra 60
Dilshan 33
Hewer 4/43
Zondeki 3/36

Result: South Africa win by 154 runs
MOTM: Greame Smith

Reation: Judging by the loss, you wouldn't expect me to have thought at one point I'd have teh game in the bag. Sadly, Smith,Gibbs and Boucher took the game away from me very quickly with 5th and 6th wicket partnerships of 111 and 101 respectively. At that point I went from chasing 180odd to 390odd left me in a bad position. South Africa finished me off early with good pace bowling. I'll look for a batting improvement in the next test.

 

[surendar]

That was a massive victory :banana2 Lankans need batters to score huge runs individually for the team score to be huge.