Bangladesh in Sri Lanka, 2007

Bangladesh lost couple of wickets in the post tea session.

Currently 178/5 after 72 overs
Bashar 57*
Mashud 5*

I can tell you, Bangladesh is getting murdered in that third test!!

Sri Lanka A v Bangladeshis

2007 season

Played at Colts Cricket Club Ground, Colombo, on 20,21,22 June 2007 (3-day match)

	Bangladeshis 1st innings			R	B	4s	6s	SR
		Javed Omar	run out (Welegedara/Jayawardene)	34	88	6	0	38.63
		Shahriar Nafees	c Mubarak b Prasad	16	18	4	0	88.88
		Rajin Saleh	lbw b Herath	21	80	2	0	26.25
		Habibul Bashar	lbw b Ganegama	63	168	5	0	37.50
		Mohammad Ashraful	c Jayawardene b Herath	37	89	6	1	41.57
		Shakib Al Hasan	c Udawatte b Herath	0	1	0	0	0.00
		Khaled Mashud	lbw b Welegedara	8	81	0	0	9.87
		Mushfiqur Rahim	not out	33	63	5	0	52.38
		Mohammad Sharif	lbw b Welegedara	0	1	0	0	0.00
		Shahadat Hossain	not out	24	37	2	0	64.86
		Extras	(b 5, lb 2, nb 2)	9
		Total	(8 wickets; 104 overs)	245	(2.35 runs per over)

To bat Abdur Razzak, Syed Rasel

Fall of wickets1-25 (Shahriar Nafees, 6.1 ov), 2-70 (Javed Omar, 29.5 ov), 3-73 (Rajin Saleh, 31.3 ov), 4-148 (Mohammad Ashraful, 61.3 ov), 5-148 (Shakib Al Hasan, 61.4 ov), 6-186 (Habibul Bashar, 86.1 ov), 7-198 (Khaled Mashud, 91.1 ov), 8-198 (Mohammad Sharif, 91.2 ov)

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
	WCA Ganegama	18	2	52	1	2.88
	UWMBCA Welegedara	21	5	59	2	2.80
	KTGD Prasad	12	6	17	1	1.41
	HMRKB Herath	26	7	63	3	2.42	(2nb)
	KS Lokuarachchi	14	4	22	0	1.57
	MDK Perera	13	5	25	0	1.92

Herath is trying to prove a point. He's a crafty left armer, always misses out to much fancied spinners like Bandara or Lokuarachchi.

Possible SL XI
Michael Vandort
Malinda Warnapura
Kumar Sangakkara
Mahela Jayawardane
Chamara Silva
Tillekaratne Dilshan
Prasanna Jayawardane
Chaminda Vaas
Dilhara Fernando
Lasith Malinga
Muralitharan

Possible BAN XI

Javed Omar
Shariar Nafees
Habibul Bashar
Rajin Saleh
Mohammed Ashraful
Sakib al Hasan
Khaled Masshud
Mashrafe Mortaza
Mohammed Rafique
Shadat Hossain
Syed Rasel

Small note on the debutant, Malinda Warnapura
Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct	St
ODIs	1	1	0	5	5	5.00	14	35.71	0	0	1	0	0	0
First-class	107	155	18	5097	242	37.20			12	23			66	0
List A	73	59	12	1324	104*	28.17			1	3			27	0
Twenty20	5	5	0	63	53	12.60	69	91.30	0	1			0	0

Bowling averages

	Mat	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4	5	10
ODIs	1	0	0	0	-	-	-	-	-	0	0	0
First-class	107	6546	3038	114	6/22		26.64	2.78	57.42		4	0
List A	73	1910	1369	62	5/33	5/33	22.08	4.30	30.80	1	1	0
Twenty20	5	25	32	0	-	-	-	7.68	-	0	0	0

He gets in to that very rare breed of slow-bowling all rounders.

Edited by TheJaffa - 25 June 2007 at 3:08am

Originally posted by BackFoot Master Man Bangladesh getting torture left, right, center, behind, up and down.     Matey stats is not Important at all against Bangladesh and can't prove anything.

Which stats mate?

 All out for a paltry 89 in just 32.3 overs!! Murali took 5-15 and Fernando chipped in with three wickets too.
         Sri Lanka have started indifferently too , currently 10-1 after 2.4 overs.

    This one won't take long !

The hosts in total command at stumps on day 1 , on 227-3. Captain , Jayawardene retired hurt (calf strain) when on 93 and opener Vandort is still there on 87.

    It's a long haul for Bangladesh now and they'll do well to take this match into the 4th day.

Yes plenty of these sort of games have aided his tally.

 Just got underway and it's 231-3 with Vandort on 87 and Dilshan , 31.  Jayawardene will bat next , congratulations to him for becoming the 2nd highest runscorer for SL in tests after Jayasuriya.

Originally posted by 143no Yes plenty of these sort of games have aided his tally.

His tally will be definietly over 750 if he played the same number of matches as Warne against England, South Africa, West Indies and New Zealand. Another aussie tactic to tarnish Murali's feats.

Originally posted by TheJaffa Originally posted by 143no Yes plenty of these sort of games have aided his tally. His tally will be definietly over 750 if he played the same number of matches as Warne against England, South Africa, West Indies and New Zealand. Another aussie tactic to tarnish Murali's feats.

Originally posted by 143no His feats will be always tarnished, with or without my posts, are you suggesting those countries mentioned are weaker than bangladesh and zimbabwe?

No, but Murali has performed better than Warne against all of these countries, and Majority of his matches are against them, unlike Murali, who's majority is against india and pakistan whoplay spin well than the above listed ones. And if they ahve played same number of matches aginst same opposition, Murali will be leading the way.

I hope this will not turn in to a Warne vs Murali thread, and this will be the last I am posting on this matter in this thread. The table shows what happend if Warne and Murali played against same number of matches against each opposition. SL, AUS and ICC WXI stats were omitted.



This will settle the argument "Murali played more against minnows" codswallop.

See the projected table without groping in the darkness. That assumes

1) Murali and Warne have played equal amount of matches barring matches against SL, AUS and ICC W XI

2) They have played similar number of matches against each opposition

So the projected table will have 17 for Warne and 23 for Murali against minnows, assuming if they have played same number of matches. The real catch comes when dealing with ENG, SAF, NZ and WI. See ENG and WI for instance, 195 vs 258 and 65 vs 133.

Even it is calculated for 110 matches, the number of wickts will be 678, (897*110/145), which is more than what he have now (674).

Yes, that will be the best idea. Needing some help from Clobs/Sledge.