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Tag: Kusal Mendis

October 11, 2023 Sri Lanka

No, Kusal Mendis, you will not fool us into watching you (except maybe in highlights packages)

2 minute read2023 World Cup, Game 8, Pakistan v Sri Lanka Early evidence in our quest to find a Sri Lanka player worth watching suggests that Kusal Mendis is a contender. No way, son. We’ve been fooled before. In that World Cup players to watch piece we did, we said that our

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February 23, 2019 South Africa / Sri Lanka

Someone has hidden or misplaced the Sri Lanka Test team that subsides to predictable defeats. If anyone tracks it down, they should probably alert the authorities. Its parents will no doubt be very worried

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July 30, 2016 Australia / Sri Lanka

Kusal Mendis doesn’t think they’re gonna need a bigger boat

2 minute readOnce upon a time, a colleague of ours, who we’ll call Gill (because that’s her name), asked another colleague, who we’ll call Stefan (because that’s his name), for help with her computer. We can’t remember the specific issue. It was just one of those generic computer problems that crops up

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July 28, 2016 Australia / Sri Lanka

Kusal Mendis has played an innings

< 1 minute readWe haven’t seen any of this Sri Lanka v Australia Test. It’s on Eurosport 2 which stopped working a couple of months ago. The prospect of speaking to BT to try and get the channel working again led us to conclude that it is best left unfixed. We have apparently

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  1. sam on The ECB has exhibited frankly insane levels of confidence in its players this weekMarch 16, 2026

    Gagging-order gate update: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/articles/c2e48z9mzrno Suppose they can't silence everyone.

  2. Tim on The ECB has exhibited frankly insane levels of confidence in its players this weekMarch 14, 2026

    It sounds from that newspaper article as if the ECB aren't going to say anything either, as the Ashes review…

  3. Pettsvaldo on The ECB has exhibited frankly insane levels of confidence in its players this weekMarch 13, 2026

    The problem with keeping a lid on a potential brouhaha is that the pressure builds until an unexpected kerfuffle escapes.…

  4. Ged Ladd on Well would you spend £1m to not have Brendon McCullum as England coach?March 12, 2026

    Whether the post-Ashes media is in brouhaha or kerfuffle mode I wouldn’t dare to suppose. But it would be totes…

  5. Pettsvaldo on Well would you spend £1m to not have Brendon McCullum as England coach?March 12, 2026

    Big fan of a brouhaha. Much better than a kerfuffle.

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