< 1 minute read 2019 Cricket World Cup, Game 27, England v Sri Lanka
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Let’s look at the four phases of the greatest moment of this World Cup so far and work out who had the biggest role in it
2 minute read 2019 Cricket World Cup, Game 7, Afghanistan v Sri Lanka
Continue readingNuwan Thushara’s bowling action (+ video)
< 1 minute read When is a one-off not a one-off? When he inspires a copycat. Lasith Malinga is not unique. We happened across this video of Sinhalese Sports Club’s Nuwan Thushara the other day. Nuwan has clearly thought to himself: “That bowling action of Lasith Malinga’s looks really logical and easy to reproduce.
Continue readingMarlon Samuels v Lasith Malinga
2 minute read We’ll be honest. Sri Lanka were steady-for-one when we got in the shower. We thought we’d timed it well. We hadn’t. The World Twenty20 final was an odd one. Sri Lankan run-scoring was stymied and they appeared to be waiting for a particular bowler to hit. He never turned up,
Continue readingLasith Malinga leads the bowlers
< 1 minute read It’s nice to see bowlers being decisive in a Twenty20 match. Far too often they might as well just glue different mugshots onto a bowling machine and use that instead. In the Champions League final, Mumbai successfully defended 139. For a large proportion of the match, the commentators were talking
Continue readingLasith Malinga’s knee injury
< 1 minute read Lasith Malinga’s knee injury is just about bad enough that he can’t play Tests and just about good enough that he can play one-day internationals and the IPL. Sri Lanka feel that this financially lucrative degree of pain could be sorted with some rehabilitative work back home and has therefore
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