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| Oge... |
 Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 11:26 am |
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He's been nominated for some best *** ICC awards, seems to be in great
form. Played an ODI, scored a good 100, and then disappeared. He was
in the champions trophy warm up game today, cricinfo scorecard
initially showed his name as #7 and then it changed to Kapugedara.
Anyone knows what is happening? Is he injured or something? Are they
not playing him because they want to groom the youth?
To their credit, the late middle order guys (who TTS would replace if
he were to get picked) Kandamby and Kapu are playing reasonably well,
but losing Sanga or Mahela early (which seems to happen often
nowadays) creates pressure on the relatively new guys in the late-
middle order. May be a cool head like TTS is good to have at #5...
Btw, is Angelo Mathews a bowling allrounder or batting allrounder? |
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| Chan... |
| Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 2:50 pm |
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On Sep 18, 2:26 pm, Oge <driz... at (no spam) yahoo.com> wrote:
Quote: He's been nominated for some best *** ICC awards, seems to be in great
form. Played an ODI, scored a good 100, and then disappeared. He was
in the champions trophy warm up game today, cricinfo scorecard
initially showed his name as #7 and then it changed to Kapugedara.
Anyone knows what is happening? Is he injured or something? Are they
not playing him because they want to groom the youth?
To their credit, the late middle order guys (who TTS would replace if
he were to get picked) Kandamby and Kapu are playing reasonably well,
but losing Sanga or Mahela early (which seems to happen often
nowadays) creates pressure on the relatively new guys in the late-
middle order. May be a cool head like TTS is good to have at #5...
Mahela seems to be preparing for a reprise of his 2003 tour. So far
things are going really well in that respect.
Dilshan seems to have lost his mojo. That's 3 successive failures for
him (but who's counting?)
I agree they need to get Samaraweera in there somewhere. I'm wondering
whether he could slide into an Atapattu-like role as opener and have
Dilshan back at #5, followed by either Kandamby or Kapugedera. I'm
leaning towards the former.
Quote: Btw, is Angelo Mathews a bowling allrounder or batting allrounder?
Difficult to say. He has shown glimpses of excellence in both. But
currently he couldn't cement his place in the side purely on either.
This leads me to classify him as a true all-rounder, albeit not fully
mature. I'd say he is about a 7/10 in both, where 8/10 is the standard
to get a place in the side for either discipline, 9/10 is a top-class
international, and 10/10 an ATG.
- Chan |
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| jreacher... |
| Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2009 4:32 am |
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On Sep 19, 10:50 am, Chan <chan.fons... at (no spam) gmail.com> wrote:
Quote: Dilshan seems to have lost his mojo. That's 3 successive failures for
him (but who's counting?)
He scored 42 of 29 in his last ODI, which was only last week.. |
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