Comments on: Thilan Samaraweera averages WAY more than 40

By: sam

sam — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 11:44:23 +0000

i wish i was called samaraweera for short

By: Mohammad Ashraful

Mohammad Ashraful — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 13:44:48 +0000

Declare??? What is this tern you speak of? Infact, come to think of it… runs? What are these!

By: Andrew Strauss

Andrew Strauss — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:42:29 +0000

Oh I see – quick runs and declare. Yes, I think I’ve got it now.

By: Mahinda

Mahinda — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 13:42:51 +0000

Erm, the plan is to go for the follow-on. Against most sides, you want at least 600 runs to do that.

“Quick runs and declare” is a 3rd innings plan, not a 1st innings one.

By: e normous

e normous — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:33:08 +0000

Sri Lanka do this sort of thing a bit too often for my liking. Seriously, if you were playing small-time cricket, would anyone play like this? Just hit some quick runs and declare and try to put some life into the game. (that’s what they should be doing…)

By: Bert

Bert — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:00:29 +0000

You’ve got to feel sorry for (i.e. laugh at) Tillakaratne Dilshan, who managed to follow a 437 run partnership with a three-ball duck. If, as I have suggested in writing to the ECB many times, the total match pay for the batsmen was divided proportionally according to the number of runs each scored, he’d have to be paid in Zimbabwean dollars just to get to a positive integer.

People will say that this sort of thing happens quite often, that an incoming batsman who has waited for ages to go in to bat will inevitably not be mentally prepared, but that doesn’t make it any the less funny.

In my career, I never let the size of the previous partnership bother me when compiling a three-ball duck.

By: Mahinda

Mahinda — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 01:32:50 +0000

If only Mahela could be a bit more consistent…perhaps score half as many runs, twice as often?

Or just score just as many runs, twice as often. That’d be nice.

*watches the pigs flying past”

By: Dada

Dada — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 22:47:22 +0000

He’s bored of being captain.

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 14:54:27 +0000

Sooner or later, Mahela Jayawardene will get bored of scoring masses of runs.

He’ll have to.

By: Praneeth

Praneeth — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 13:30:19 +0000

Not to take anything away from them, but the pitch was flat and the bowling was horrible. I think I could have scored 20 runs there. Which is saying a lot, because I am quite horrible.