Archive for the “Cricket” category
Fireworks, too late
by Nazly on October 29, 2006
At the beginning of the Champions Trophy Sri Lankan team was considered hot favorites to win the tournament considering their late ODI form after beating England 5-0 during the England tour. As expected the Lankans beat Zimbababwe and Bangladesh in (…)
Forfeited Test in 129 years
by Nazly on August 21, 2006
It was the most unfortunate thing to see a Test match being forfeited. The 4th and last Test Match between England and Pakistan was forfeited and England were awarded a win. England who have already won the series ended up (…)
Harmison rocks Pakistan
by Nazly on July 29, 2006
Harmison's 10 wicket haul in the match won the match for England as they beat Pakistan by an innings and 120 runs. He picked up 6 wickets in the first innings restricting Pakistan total to 119 runs and picked 5 (…)
Day meant for records
by Nazly on July 29, 2006
Mahela Jayawardena(374) and Kumar Sangakkara(287) have recorded the highest partnership in Test Cricket by putting together 624 runs for the 3rd wicket in the 1st Test match against South Africa at SSC, Colombo. The previous record partnership 574 was held (…)
Lankans reclaim honours
by Nazly on July 5, 2006
Oh boy. I never thought in the past that teams would pass 400 in an ODI match. During the early 90's even reaching 300 was a bigtask. Sri Lankans changed the face of the game during the 1996 World Cup (…)
Whitewash
by Nazly on July 2, 2006
It has been sometime I blogged about Cricket and after watching the last ODI played between Sri Lanka and England I felt I should. Start of the series I felt it will be England all the way considering their performance (…)
A great escape
by Nazly on May 16, 2006
Sri Lankans pulled off a great escape to draw the first Test against England and Sri Lanka at Lords after they were made to follow on in their second innings. The butter hands of England allowed the Lankans to make (…)
Nightwatchman’s double
by Nazly on April 20, 2006
Aussie paceman Jason Gillespie became the first nightwatchman to score a double century in Test Cricket when he scored 201 in the final Test Match against Bangladesh. Aussies won the Test as well as the series 2-0 and Gillespie was (…)
Quickest to 1000
by Nazly on March 31, 2006
During his 71 run knock against India in the 2nd ODI, Kevin Pieterson reached 1000 runs in just 21 innings. He became the quickest to 1000 runs along with Viv Richard to reach this landmark who also achieved this in (…)
More joy for the Englishmen
by Nazly on March 23, 2006
England will be qualified for the second stage of the Champions Trophy regardless of the results in the first two ODIs against India after Sri Lanka lost the ODI series to Pakistan 2-0. The top six teams in the current (…)
