evertonfan
Chairman of Selectors
I'm backing Rudolph to score 401*! 
Well played Jayawardene though, fantastic innings.
Well played Jayawardene though, fantastic innings.
South Africa in Sri Lanka
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s2sschan
Club Cricketer
Nightwatchman said:
Sri Lanka is Nothing, I mean Absolutely Nothing, without Murali as of right now.
iceman_waugh said:
NEVER! I think never!
Didnt Lara play his final test match on his home ground(s)??? I think he will never play a test in the Windies and that makes it even tougher for him to break the record again. Both his big ones (375 and 400*) have been at Antigua.
It was the bowling that set this game up for Sri Lanka. And it wasn't all Murali doing, Fernado bowled well to get SL in this position. Then the brillance of Sri Lanka 2 best batsmen have them in this position.
I don't know how SL do it but they always manage to break World Records which look near impossible to break.
I don't know how SL do it but they always manage to break World Records which look near impossible to break.
kodos
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s2sschan said:
Bowling department that is pretty much correct but they do have decent backup spin bowlers, Chandana, Bandara so they can still be a force without Murali. Their batting is still their strong point and considering Kumar and Jaya are still in the 20's (I think) the batting will be up there with the rest of the world.
jdbais
International Cricketer
saisrini80 said:
But don't the West Indies have a tour to Pakistan coming up. I think the pitches over there are twice as flat as all other West Indian pitches.
kodos
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Pretty disgraceful stuff by the major Aussie tv networks. They haven't even shown some highlights of the record partnership in the news. Shameful stuff really, I mean this is a very rare achievement and they can't show at least 10 seconds of it?? They really should pay more attention and respect to world sport instead of being incredibly Australian biased i.e they showed highlights of Bledisloe Cup after all the AFL and NRL but if Aus won it would have been shown first.
Nightwatchman
School Cricketer
maybe they are in denial that two blokes from a small country in the sub continent dared such a feat?
IloveGilly
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Kodos, you really have no idea how the sporting industry works do you? Do Australian networks gain money from showing international games? No. There is also the buisness of licensing channels e.g. Ch. 10 showing Ch. 9 footage (which is for every sport individually).
Australia is based around Australia, thats the main fact you should get into you head.
Btw, they actually did show footage on Sportsworld.
Australia is based around Australia, thats the main fact you should get into you head.
Btw, they actually did show footage on Sportsworld.
sohum
Executive member
It's not a question of how the sporting industry (not sure this can even be termed as that) works, but how greedy the Aussie news networks seem to be. It's disrespectful if you do not show substantial coverage of the highest partnership in the 125+ years of cricket. I don't recall the Indian news networks limiting their coverage when Australia and South Africa played that record-setting ODI match.
