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Filed under patriotic excess, Rangana Herath, Sri Lanka Cricket
Daily Mirror, 2014 where the title is “Taking their chances, North East U23 team make strides”
Overcoming the most difficult realities during and after the 30-year civil war, a group of young cricketers have made great strides in showing the hidden talent waiting to be discovered in the North and East of the country. Playing in the domestic Under 23 tournament, the North East Combined team have taken just two years to make significant progress and prove that given a chance they could do as well as anyone. Having made the finals of the Division III this year, with a combination of players from Batticaloa, Trincomalee, Kanthale, Vavuniya, Killinochchi and Jaffna, they have not only beaten their opponents, but moved up a notch into the Division II tournament. 
Dennis Lillee deployed 9 slips vs New Zealand in 1977
Filed under Australian cricket, performance, unusual people
Rex Clementine, deploying Graham Ford, Island, 30 July 2016
Sri Lanka coach Graham Ford has done some high profile coaching jobs with the South African national team and English counties Surrey and Kent. Speaking after close of play on day four in the first Test against Australia, he said Kusal Mendis’ outstanding 176 was one of the best knocks he had ever seen. “It’s one of the best innings I’ve ever seen. It was an absolutely brilliant knock. He seemed to have a plan against all the bowlers – he had an option for all the bowlers. He showed real composure. The odd one did explode and turn on him but he didn’t bother about the previous delivery. He just focused on the next ball and got on with the job. He is an amazing talent. He works really hard and really loves the game,” Ford said.
Kusal –Pic by Eranga Jayawardena Continue reading
see http://bestworldstuff.blogspot.com/2011/01/hats-off-to-greatest-spinner-ever-in.html
The International Cricket Council announced on Wednesday that Muttiah Muralidaran, Karen Rolton, Arthur Morris and George Lohmann will be inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame later this year. Record-breaking off-spinner Muralidaran becomes the first Sri Lankan player to be inducted along with twice ICC Women’s World Cup winner and former Australia women’s captain Karen Rolton, her compatriot Arthur Morris, a member of Don Bradman’s ‘invincibles’ and England’s George Lohmann, the 19th century fast bowler who took 100 wickets in just 16 Tests. Continue reading
Alex James shows his mettle (sic) … and rumour has it that he will receive a Baggy Green when he returns home to Queensland …. from Pauline Hanson of course
SEE http://www.cricket.com.au/news/streaker-nude-one-week-prison-kandy-australia-sri-lanka-first-test/2016-07-27 FOR HIS RED-LETTER DAY IN THE COURTS ….
ALSO https://www.google.com/search?sclient=psy-ab&client=firefox-b&q=streaker+at+pallekelle+cricket+match&oq=streaker+at+pallekelle+cricket+match&gs_l=serp.12…16364790.16382005.0.16383276.36.35.0.1.1.0.575.6296.0j27j4j2j1j1.35.0….0…1c.1.64.psy-ab..0.22.3925…0j0i67j0i3j0i131i67j0i10i67j0i131j0i22i30j33i22i29i30i68j33i21.rLR2pYtrlZQ&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.&bvm=bv.128153897,d.c2I&biw=1366&bih=657&ech=1&psi=ewyaV6DEIomLvQTX_oCoDA.1469713534825.3&ei=ewyaV6DEIomLvQTX_oCoDA&emsg=NCSR&noj=1&gfe_rd=cr
Andrew Fidel Fernando, courtesy of ESPNcricinfo,where the title reads “”Murali and SLC involved in war of words”
Sri Lanka Cricket and Muttiah Muralitharan have traded caustic verbal blows following an altercation between Murali and the Sri Lanka team manager. SLC has made a formal complaint to Cricket Australia over the altercation, and has also contended Murali had conducted centre-wicket training at the Pallekele ground without permission.
Daniel Brettig, in ESPNcricinfo, 23 July 2016,
Either side of the disastrous Australian tour of India in 2013, much comment passed within and outside the team about the lack of experience contained in the first touring squad chosen after the retirements of Ricky Ponting and Michael Hussey.
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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