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The last (probably) ICC Champions Trophy has come to an end and India are the final victors (probably) of this competition. I was going to review the tournament as a whole, but thought that just looking at Sri Lanka’s tournament would be a better use of a blog post. I will say though that my pre-tournament predictions were a shambles. ...
I’ve only been to a few Sri Lanka matches in England. My first was a warmup for the 2009 World T20 Championships against South Africa; which we lost. Then during the tour of England in 2011, I was at the Rose Bowl which came after two days cricket at Chelmsford against Essex and at Derby against the Lions. This was ...
To be honest, given my rather hit and miss IPL predictions, I wasn’t going to bother previewing the upcoming Champions Trophy, but as the tournament draws closer, I feel myself looking more and more into the other team’s camps to see how they are doing and what sort of form or preparation they are taking into the tournament. I’ve already ...
Due to the lack of international cricket in the first part of the calendar year for Sri Lanka, the national side would have been going into the ICC Champions Trophy woefully under-prepared. Around about the time that the preliminary squad was made public, the board also made the announcement that there would be a warm-up 50-over tournament for the Champions ...
When the new selection committee tasked with picking Sri Lankan cricket squads was formed, the emphasis was very much on youth development and bringing in new blood following the tour to Australia. The home series versus Bangladesh was their first opportunity to do so and saw players like Kithruwan Vithanage and Angelo Perera make senior team debuts. The Champions Trophy was another ...
Having been gorging myself on Twenty20 cricket during IPL 6, one thing you don’t usually see that much in the shortest format is the ‘leave’. In all other forms of the game it is a very underrated part of a batsman’s repertoire and is as legitimate a stroke or a shot as the cover drive or the slog sweep. This ...
It has been a while since I did a piece on Sri Lankan Cricket. Given the lack of cricket and the end of the SL Premier First-Class league (which was won by the Sinhalese Sports Club) one would assume that there would be little to talk about. But the corridors of power at SLC are rarely quiet. The past ...
I was reading this piece in The Telegraph from Simon Hughes yesterday putting the argument forward for allowing County Cricket’s finest to go and play in the Indian Premier League. Beneath this is a thinly veiled jab at County Cricket’s seemingly diminishing status in the cricketing world. In it, Hughes uses the sentence: every season the County Championship seems less relevant ...
I had planned on doing a proper preview of the upcoming County Championship and previewing all of the Counties individually, but was left rather emasculated by the quality of writing already available from sources like Deep Extra Cover site and Cricinfo‘s dedicated County supporter’s section One Man & His Dog, alongside some excellent previews by George Dobell. So I’ve ditched ...
After all that I said about the Indian Premier League in my last post, you could be forgiven for thinking that I wouldn’t touch the tournament with a barge-pole. But the sad truth is the IPL presents my only opportunity to watch live cricket on television for as long as it remains on ITV4. Also, unless I am back in ...
Even if the Indian Premier League had agreed to let Sri Lankan players play in Chennai, there would be no denying the bubbling sentiment of the Tamil Nadu population at every game featuring SL players. For the purpose of debate, I will pretend that the IPL as some sort of validity as a cricketing entity. When Minister Jayalalithaa announced that ...
The IPL is just over a week away now, and the usual gaudy shenanigans are around the corner. So to celebrate, Cricinfo are apparently doing a Fantasy League Tournament for it (link). For copyright purposes they are calling it the ‘Indian T20 League’. I do not recall if they did one for IPL 2012, but they have for this edition. ...
