Sri Lanka Team for West Indies is declared:
Mahela Jayawardene (capt), Kumar Sangakkara (wk), Tillakaratne Dilshan, Chaminda Vaas, Chamara Silva, Upul Tharanga, Chamara Kapugedera, Malinga Bandara, Kaushalya Weeraratne, Nuwan Kulasekara, Ajantha Mendis, Jehan Mubarak, Ishara Amerasinghe, Mahela Udawatte, Thilan Thushara.

As predicted by this site, Jayasuriya is headed for the pavilion. He has served the Sri Lankan team pretty well and t was anyway time for him to step down, I just wish he’d read my blog and announced his retirement instead of waiting for this day Maybe he did read my blog and thought that i was like the usual press after his blood - but only if he’d have read the whole stuff he’d have known that I had held no one above him all this while

In Jayasuriya’s period Sri Lanka got the opportunity to hold the cup - a moment which may not come again soon in the life of this small island. He gave a new way to approach the game not to just this country but to the whole world. Attack was something unknown to the openers and he not only showed them how to attack but also mastered the art to perfection.

Anyway, He’s gonna collect a good pension at the IPL but he should watch out, since Brian Lara didn’t exactly do well to keep his name high in the ICL version last edition.

The Surprise was the resting of Muralitharan. Now, failure is something that can happen to anyone in Australia including the Australians, and Muralitharan would’ve been useful in West Indies for sure. Yes, he has to be retired too, however there was a series or two left in him.

It is mostly the “Dhoni experiment” that has caught the eyes on Sri Lankans and maybe, Australans?

Well, it’s good that the Aussie tour of Pakistan is cancelled, I shudder to think that Harbhajan Singh may have been blamed for the demise of Ponting Era. Well, Ponting and Hayden watch out!

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My Cricket player rankings are out! And you won’t be able to easily guess who is the Most Valuable Player!!

A Total of nearly 400 players took the field in 2007.

I have put out different ODI Ranking lists for teams and players. Do check each one out!

ODI Batsmen Rankings 2007 (all teams)
ODI Bowler Rankings 2007 (all teams)
ODI Best Wicketkeepers/ Fielders 2007 (all teams)
ODI Most Valuable Players - All Rounders 2007 (all teams)
ODI Team Rankings 2007 (all teams)

There are many good players waiting to be born out there. There are some players from unknown countries who if perform as per their statistics would become Superstars, or other perish their records accumulated against similar unknown nations.

Did you know there is an allrounder called “RN ten Doeschate” who plays for Netherlands? Well if you check out his performance, he was the Most Valuable Player of 2006!! His record was much above that of Jacques Kallis!!! In the 6 matches that he played, he scored 259 runs at a phenomenal average of 51.80 at a strike rate of 103.6. And he topped this with a bowling figures of 7 wickets in 6 matches at a strike rate of 39.4 balls and took 2 catches. well check out the complete rankings now!!

*These rankings are based on Players who’ve played 5 matches or more. These rankings are prepared solely by myself based on owned algorithms.

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India vs Australia ODI match Brisbane 4 March, 2008 - A Fun Report

For once India got lucky with the Toss and got to bat first. Certainly not a good sign for Australia. India gambled by playing Piyush Chawla again and went in with 5 regular bowlers. India started cautiously at just around 3 RPO. Slowly they nudged to 4 RPO and gradually to around 5. And by the time Aussies knew, they already had 94 run partnership for the first wicket. Tendulkar was again cruising towards a century. India added runs in small but useful partnerships and soon they had crossed 200 losing just 3 wickets. No one except Backen was bowling good enough. Somehow, the part time spinners Clarke and Symonds did enough to choke India at the end. And India finished at 258/9. Would this be enough? Tendulkar had hit a fine 91! Dhoni Yuvraj and Uthappa contributed 30s.

Ishant Sharma had to sit out due to his injury, and the question was would it prove too costly for India? Soon Australia had Praveen Kumar written all over them. And again the obnoxious little weed turned out to be the nemesis of obnoxious big weeds. Hayden and Hopes hit half centuries and Hussey a useful 44, but Australian wound up at 249 - 9 short of India.

Praveen Kumar and Tendulkar were the heroes of the day. Praveen Kumar was the Man of the Match since he closed the chapter right in his first over!

(the above are written in a funny mood and not intended to hurt your sentiment - i doubt if any actual players gets time to read - so please don’t (get) hurt yourself defending them)

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