‘Sangakkara really shored up the innings although I was a bit disappointed that the other batsmen could not go on to get big scores,’ said Jayawardene.
The regular Monday column in which Steven Lynch answers your questions about (almost) any aspect of cricket.
Martin Williamson looks back at when West Indies were bowled out for 25 by Ireland.
Bangladesh received another drubbing in the second Test against Sri Lanka in Colombo but during the course of their defeat by an innings and 90 runs, Mohammad Ashraful and Mushfiqur Rahim achieved a rare feat, one that had been performed only three times in Test history.
The match was already in the bag, but when Chris Gayle swooped low to
his left to pluck Dimitri Mascarenhas’s edge out of thin air at Trent
Bridge, and sprinted halfway to the boundary in celebration, it was a
release of weeks of tension for West Indies’ Mr Cool.
West Indies cricket is in a trough but its value is recognised by billionaire Stanford and the various national governments.
British sports lovers have been having a feast over the past few days. We’ve had the British Grand Prix, the tennis at Wimbledon and the Tour de France. Most people didn’t even notice that there was also some one-day international cricket going on.
When the Indian selectors pick the probables for the Twenty20 World Championship they must remember that the format of the Twenty20 game is significantly different from the 50-over version, and often players who are successful at the longer form find it difficult to get cracking in the shortest version of the game.
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