The eight teams in the finals lineup –spruced up …. The captains are, front row from left: APB Tennekoon (Sri Lanka), Asif Iqbal (Pakistan), Clive Lloyd (West Indies), Mike Brearley (England), Kim Hughes (Australia), Mark Burgess (New Zealand), S Venkataraghavan (India), GE Brisbane (Canada) … Photograph: Patrick Eagar via Getty Images
Niroshan Dickwella = 44 in 31| Sri Lanka A innings (50 overs maximum) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
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N Dickwella | c Aamer Yamin b Amad Butt | 44 | 47 | 31 | 8 | 0 | 141.93 |
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ML Udawatte | c Sharjeel Khan b Hasan Ali | 3 | 29 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 27.27 |
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PBB Rajapaksa | c sub (Mohammad Asghar) b Mohammad Nawaz | 56 | 88 | 63 | 6 | 1 | 88.88 |
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M Bhanuka† | c Fakhar Zaman b Aamer Yamin | 12 | 28 | 19 | 2 | 0 | 63.15 |
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SMA Priyanjan* | st †Umar Siddiq b Shadab Khan | 34 | 55 | 49 | 5 | 0 | 69.38 |
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AK Perera | c †Umar Siddiq b Hasan Ali | 35 | 66 | 43 | 1 | 1 | 81.39 |
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SS Pathirana | c Amad Butt b Fakhar Zaman | 2 | 11 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 15.38 |
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NLTC Perera | c & b Mohammad Nawaz | 45 | 47 | 40 | 5 | 1 | 112.50 |
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RLB Rambukwella | st †Umar Siddiq b Shadab Khan | 13 | 14 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 162.50 |
| PLS Gamage | not out | 0 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
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CAK Rajitha | c †Umar Siddiq b Shadab Khan | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Extras | (lb 4, w 2, nb 4) | 10 | ||||||
| Total | (all out; 46.5 overs) | 254 | (5.42 runs per over) | |||||
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | 0s | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Aamer Yamin | 7 | 0 | 58 | 1 | 8.28 | 17 | (1w) |
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Hasan Ali | 9 | 0 | 50 | 2 | 5.55 | 36 | (3nb) |
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Amad Butt | 8 | 0 | 38 | 1 | 4.75 | 29 | (1nb) |
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Mohammad Nawaz (3) | 10 | 0 | 39 | 2 | 3.90 | 34 | |
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Shadab Khan | 8.5 | 0 | 51 | 3 | 5.77 | 26 | |
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Fakhar Zaman | 4 | 1 | 14 | 1 | 3.50 | 17 | (1w) |
| Pakistan A innings (target: 255 runs from 50 overs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Jaahid Ali | c Dickwella b Gamage | 77 | 139 | 104 | 5 | 0 | 74.03 |
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Sharjeel Khan | c Rambukwella b Gamage | 29 | 24 | 18 | 4 | 1 | 161.11 |
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Fakhar Zaman | c Priyanjan b NLTC Perera | 4 | 14 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 33.33 |
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Babar Azam* | c Dickwella b Gamage | 73 | 93 | 77 | 7 | 0 | 94.80 |
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Saud Shakeel | c Rambukwella b Pathirana | 25 | 43 | 29 | 3 | 0 | 86.20 |
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Mohammad Nawaz (3) | c AK Perera b Pathirana | 21 | 43 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 72.41 |
| Amad Butt | not out | 8 | 15 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 88.88 | |
| Umar Siddiq† | not out | 12 | 8 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 109.09 | |
| Extras | (b 4, lb 1, w 4) | 9 | ||||||
| Total | (6 wickets; 48.1 overs) | 258 | (5.35 runs per over) | |||||
Did not batHasan Ali, Shadab Khan, Aamer Yamin
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | 0s | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RLB Rambukwella | 10 | 0 | 54 | 0 | 5.40 | 31 | (1w) | |
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PLS Gamage | 8 | 0 | 43 | 3 | 5.37 | 25 | |
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NLTC Perera | 7 | 0 | 35 | 1 | 5.00 | 19 | |
| CAK Rajitha | 5 | 0 | 34 | 0 | 6.80 | 10 | (2w) | |
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SS Pathirana | 10 | 0 | 49 | 2 | 4.90 | 31 | (1w) |
| AK Perera | 4 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 4.00 | 10 | ||
| SMA Priyanjan | 4.1 | 0 | 22 | 0 | 5.28 | 10 |
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ECB Reporters Network, 21 July 2016, where the title is “Malan 185* leads Lions rout of Sri Lanka A”
Dawid Malan rewrote the record books as England Lions made it two wins out of two in the 50-over Tri-Series by crushing Sri Lanka A in Northampton as comfortably as they had beaten Pakistan A in the opener in Cheltenham on Tuesday. Malan, who is leading the Lions for the first time in this series after his impressive performances in the winter, struck an unbeaten 185 from 126 balls with 16 fours and eight sixes – a new record for the Lions or England A in List A cricket, beating 168 by Ravi Bopara against West Indies A in Worcester in 2010.
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ESPNcricinfo
| Derbyshire innings (43 overs maximum) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
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WJ Durston* | b Rajitha | 32 | 40 | 29 | 4 | 1 | 110.34 |
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BT Slater | c de Silva b Sandakan | 124 | 165 | 118 | 16 | 0 | 105.08 |
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AL Hughes | b Sandakan | 15 | 29 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 100.00 |
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CM MacDonell | c de Silva b Sandakan | 19 | 33 | 32 | 1 | 0 | 59.37 |
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TA Wood | c Rajapaksa b Sandakan | 44 | 49 | 41 | 6 | 0 | 107.31 |
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MJJ Critchley | st †Dickwella b Sandakan | 1 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 50.00 |
| RP Hemmings | not out | 25 | 19 | 13 | 4 | 0 | 192.30 | |
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GTG Cork | b NLTC Perera | 8 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 133.33 |
| BD Cotton | not out | 4 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 133.33 | |
| Extras | (lb 6, w 2, nb 1) | 9 | ||||||
| Total | (7 wickets; 43 overs) | 281 | (6.53 runs per over) | |||||
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David Hopps, in ESPNcricinfo 1 July 2016, where his title reads “‘I’ve had a lot more good days with bat recently than ball’
At arguably the lowest point in England’s recent Test history, with the Ashes lost, his retirement announced, and his elbow feeling about as flexible as a trapped bicycle chain, Graeme Swannattempted to sprinkle a little stardust on a demoralising situation. “Personally, I hope little Scotty Borthwick gets the chance before long,” Swann said. “He’s a legspinner, he’s got a bit of X factor as well.”
Borthwick, who had been playing grade cricket in Sydney, was about to return home in time for Christmas before then heading off on a Lions tour to Sri Lanka. Swann’s namecheck felt nice, but not exactly pressing. But within days Borthwick was playing in the Sydney Test, not as much a planned selection as a pipe dream in desperate times. In the blur of a Test debut, he managed to take four wickets in the match and went at more than six an over, as England lost in three days on the way to a 5-0 whitewash and a cricketing civil war over the banishment of Kevin Pietersen. Borthwick looked like a promising county cricketer blown in by a strengthening tornado and deposited onto the wreckage. Continue reading
Mahinda Wijesinghe
ONE: The Sun smiled and the batsmen obliged at Chester-le Street … 31 May 2016
At the end of Day 3, in the second Test being played at Chester-le-Street, in Durham, the Sri Lankan batsmen, being sent for a follow-on, had so far made 310 for 5 at a pleasing 3.67 runs/over. For a team that had, during this series totaled a miserable 311 in 3 completed innings – or 30 wickets – this is indeed a remarkable turnaround.
The icing on the cake, after fighting half-centuries by Kaushal Silva (60) and skipper Angelo Mathews (80), is the unbroken 87-run partnership between Dinesh Chandimal (54*) and Milinda Siriwardena (35*). Currently, the tourists need to add another 88 runs to make England bat again. Maybe their skipper Cook, who has added a mere 36 runs in his last three Test innings, has an opportunity to complete 10,000 Test runs by scoring only 5 runs more. Continue reading
Courtesy of The Island, 4 June 2016, where the title is different …… http://www.thepapare.com/kusal-mendis-feature-trishaw-drivers-son-set-to-conquer-lords/
Indian scientist Dr. Abdul Kalam told youngsters to dream. He went on to add, “Dream is not what you see in sleep. Dream is something which doesn’t let you sleep. In Sri Lankan cricketer Kusal Mendis, millions of youngsters have a role model to look up to and chase their own dreams. The eldest son of trishaw driver, Mendis pursued his cricketing talents amidst many hardships.
Recently, they enlisted the help of one of the island nation’s greatest batsmen, Mahela Jayawardene, as a World T20 coaching consultant. Another, Kumar Sangakkara, has always been a popular and respected figure here and he is currently spreading the benefit of his vast experience over the Surrey dressing room and, for nearly two decades, as much as Muttiah Muralitharan terrorised England batsmen with the ball, so he also beguiled them with his vast smile.
Senanayake mankads Buttler after warnings
Yet, as events on their last visit here in 2014 remind us, often when these two teams stand toe to toe, tension seems to be bubbling just under the surface and an eruption is often just a word, look or action away. Some suggest that one of the underlying causes of all the aggro here two summers ago was Sri Lanka’s irritation at losing Farbrace to England just days before the start of the tour two summers ago. Continue reading
Michael Roberts
While Sri Lanka has started off well by winning the toss (luck that), deciding to field and snaffling early wickets, let me present the team I would have chosen in batting order: Karunaratne, Kaushal Silva, Kusal Mendis, Chandimal. Matthews, Shanaka, Dickwella. Siriwardena, Herath, Chameera or Pradeep, Eranga or Lakmal,
Tirimanne
Reasoning: Headingley in early summer is a bowler’s pitch and therefore four seam bowlers would be adequate. Given a lengthy tail, it seemed wise to shore up the batting. I have serious doubts about Tirimanne. Again,, though temperamentally a fighter, Siriwardena’s technique seems highly fallible for English conditions so his selection in my XI was with a question mark. Dickwella showed enterprise and fight in the early matches and though also likely to fall quickly at the start of his innings, his attacking spirit suggested selection ahead of both Tirimanne and Siriwardena. Tirimanne may be experienced and gritty, but his stickiness comes at a price: he scores at snail’s pace and encourages the fielding XI,while increasing pressure on the other batsmen.
I hope Tirimanne proves me wrong.
I. Andrew Fidel Fernando:“Daunting challenge for Sri Lanka to repeat 2014 heist,” at ESPN Cricinfo
