RE: Sri Lanka Cricket Discussion Thread - criccontent - 01-20-2022
@Bada
what about Thiri in test matches.? Did you call he shouldn't play more test matches when he was averaging 22.? He had a good last year. ? So is it ok to persist with him in test matches now.?
RE: Sri Lanka Cricket Discussion Thread - Bada - 01-20-2022
(01-20-2022, 06:35 AM)criccontent Wrote: @Bada
what about Thiri in test matches.? Did you call he shouldn't play more test matches when he was averaging 22.? He had a good last year. ? So is it ok to persist with him in test matches now.?
The whole forum including myself when he had that horrible run. It's quite obvious, isn't it? Then he was dropped.
He has formed a good opening partnership with Dimuth in this stint. 2 hundreds and 4 fifties in the last 6 Tests. Obviously there's no reason to drop him when he's performing.
RE: Sri Lanka Cricket Discussion Thread - criccontent - 01-20-2022
(01-20-2022, 06:46 AM)Bada Wrote: (01-20-2022, 06:35 AM)criccontent Wrote: @Bada
what about Thiri in test matches.? Did you call he shouldn't play more test matches when he was averaging 22.? He had a good last year. ? So is it ok to persist with him in test matches now.?
The whole forum including myself when he had that horrible run. It's quite obvious, isn't it? Then he was dropped.
He has formed a good opening partnership with Dimuth in this stint. 2 hundreds and 4 fifties in the last 6 Tests. Obviously there's no reason to drop him when he's performing.
Like wise selectors must have thought Kapu would perform. Unfortunately, he didn't. Two case similar right.? Kapu's case you were right. Thiri's case you were wrong.
RE: Sri Lanka Cricket Discussion Thread - criccontent - 01-20-2022
year 1989 3 3 0 40 24 13.33 61 65.57 0 0 0 0 0
year 1990 8 5 0 59 31 11.80 118 50.00 0 0 1 1 0
year 1991 4 4 0 10 5 2.50 26 38.46 0 0 1 0 0
year 1992 15 13 0 143 32 11.00 165 86.66 0 0 2 10 2
year 1993 20 19 2 347 65 20.41 477 72.74 0 2 0 33 4
Looks at sanath's odi record in the first 5 years. worse than Kapu
RE: Sri Lanka Cricket Discussion Thread - Bada - 01-20-2022
(01-20-2022, 06:50 AM)criccontent Wrote: (01-20-2022, 06:46 AM)Bada Wrote: The whole forum including myself when he had that horrible run. It's quite obvious, isn't it? Then he was dropped.
He has formed a good opening partnership with Dimuth in this stint. 2 hundreds and 4 fifties in the last 6 Tests. Obviously there's no reason to drop him when he's performing.
Like wise selectors must have thought Kapu would perform. Unfortunately, he didn't. Two case similar right.? Kapu's case you were right. Thiri's case you were wrong.
Thiri was actually dropped from the team and didn't play at all when SL had a busy year (2018?) in Test cricket. On the other hand, they kept picking Crapu till that WC for no reason. So these two cases aren't similar at all in terms of the way selectors handled it.
RE: Sri Lanka Cricket Discussion Thread - Bada - 01-20-2022
(01-20-2022, 06:53 AM)criccontent Wrote: year 1989 3 3 0 40 24 13.33 61 65.57 0 0 0 0 0
year 1990 8 5 0 59 31 11.80 118 50.00 0 0 1 1 0
year 1991 4 4 0 10 5 2.50 26 38.46 0 0 1 0 0
year 1992 15 13 0 143 32 11.00 165 86.66 0 0 2 10 2
year 1993 20 19 2 347 65 20.41 477 72.74 0 2 0 33 4
Looks at sanath's odi record in the first 5 years. worse than Kapu
Sana played as an AR (not specialist bat) in a developing side, yeah? I see he took 29 wickets at 22 in 1993.
Another thing I noticed in those numbers is that he got only 15 matches in the first 3 years. So he wasn't really given a steady run. Similar to how he kept dropping players after 3-4 matches when he was CoS
RE: Sri Lanka Cricket Discussion Thread - Bada - 01-20-2022
Nobody keeps a record of these things. So I checked just to be sure. Thiri was out of the Test side for 14 months. SL played 12 Tests in 2018. He didn't play at all. I can't remember a single year where Crapu didn't play an ODI leading up to 2011.
Also had a look at what happened to Thiri when he was dropped. He was in the top 10 scorers of the FC tournament just behind Nissanka. He captained Ragama who made it to the Super Eight round and averaged 45+. No one else in his team averaged 40. I guess that performance had something to do with him making a comeback. Can't be sure. Gunathilaka had a string of failures just before they picked Thiri again. That may have helped too.
If someone takes about 35 Tests to just start performing, it's more of a relief rather than "we got it spot on". If he finishes with a career average of 40, yeah that's when they can boast about how they got it right.
RE: Sri Lanka Cricket Discussion Thread - Dilcey - 01-20-2022
Gosh these Crapu fans
Sri lion
CR
And this guy
RE: Sri Lanka Cricket Discussion Thread - Bada - 01-20-2022
(01-20-2022, 07:54 AM)Dilz Wrote: Gosh these Crapu fans
Sri lion
CR
And this guy
Charu had like a 6-month crush (more of a school thing) when he joined the forum but he set himself straight after the WC. Good stuff.
RE: Sri Lanka Cricket Discussion Thread - Bada - 01-20-2022
https://www.newswire.lk/2022/01/20/sanath-to-miss-first-half-of-legends-league/
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