India tour of Sri Lanka - July/Sept 2017

[johnniewalk]

Its a great a win from India sweeping all test matches and winning the series with 3-0.

 

[MattHogan]

Its a great victory by India by sweeping the test series by 3-0. Hope this continues in future matches also.


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[Velocity]

Sri Lankan cricket is at its dying stage. No talents coming up or heard about, the leagues failing big time. Needs an overhaul soon or else one more country down the drain for cricket. I dont understand the logic of playing this team back to back as we will now be playing them at home for same amount of tests. God bless cricket. The

We need divisions soon enough, India, Australia, South Africa, England, Pakistan and New Zealand in one group. Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe, West Indies, Ireland, Afghanistan, Bangladesh in other.

Agree with this, the domestic structure is bad enough there in SL. SL have a dearth of spinners and what Chaminda Vaas said was true about making pitches suited to fast bowlers instead of preparing just dustbowls. Fast bowlers aren't going to get anything from that and wouldn't learn much. I'd rather have India play Bangladesh at home than SL, who are clearly as a team, faltering. Before, I was not really in favour of two tier, thinking that there would be no way low ranked teams would learn from mistakes without playing aganist big teams. But seems very ideal for Sri Lanka the path they are heading.

 

[Ahmad94]

Its a great a win from India sweeping all test matches and winning the series with 3-0.

Its a great victory by India by sweeping the test series by 3-0. Hope this continues in future matches also.

Did you really expect anything from Sri Lanka?

A clear waste of time and really begs the question of divisions in International cricket. Sri Lanka is falling behind fast and hard, they need a major overhaul before they self-implode. Having slated Sri Lanka, credit goes to Kuldeep Yadav and Shami for getting the job done. Worryingly, Dhawan might still open in the ODI instead of Rahul but India has a lot of talent coming through.

 

[WubbaLubbaDubDub]

Dare I say this that Sri Lanka is even worst then West Indies. West Indies atleast gave a little fight in those 4 match series, Sri Lanka did not even do that

 

[Velocity]

Dare I say this that Sri Lanka is even worst then West Indies. West Indies atleast gave a little fight in those 4 match series, Sri Lanka did not even do that

West Indies still have talented players, Roston Chase is one to look out for. They have good batsmen in my opinion but I expect they will give a fight out in the England series. WI have better cricketers than SL currently.

 

[Velocity]

Worryingly, Dhawan might still open in the ODI instead of Rahul but India has a lot of talent coming through.

Dhawan looks good against teams like WI and SL, where they have weak bowling attacks but just watch, the selectors will definitely take him on the tour of SA where he will flop because he isn't good against strong attacks like from Australia, NZ and SA.
Checked on Cricinfo and found out in Test matches against WI, SL and Bangladesh, he averages 60, but against the rest just 32. In ODIs, against WI and SL average is 49, but strong teams is 39, which isn't too bad but the point is clear that he isn't very good against stronger teams.

 

[zimrahil]

Just chipping to say wasn't that last test a complete waste of time. What has happened to Sri Lankan cricket, never replaced the star names..?[DOUBLEPOST=1502746031][/DOUBLEPOST]Edit, oh just been catching up on previous posts above, Sri Lanka sound terrible. Did India try out any up and coming players in last test ?

 

[Bigby Wolf]

Did India try out any up and coming players in last test ?

Only that young chinaman Kuldeep Yadav who picked 4 wickets in the match.

 

[zimrahil]

Only that young chinaman Kuldeep Yadav who picked 4 wickets in the match.

At least something productive came from this then?

 

[Villain]

Sri Lanka played fair in the ICC CT 2017, India deserves the credit here for white-washing them in Lanka, people are busy bashing Lanka than praising India for a great all-round performance kinda sounds like they're disappointed they couldn't beat India which anyway was a tough task for them. India deserves all the credit here than Sri Lanka being a crap team as people are pointing it out to be.[DOUBLEPOST=1502790320][/DOUBLEPOST]

At least something productive came from this then?

Yes, it was a decent tour nothing great except the win of course.

 

[Ahmad94]

Sri Lanka played fair in the ICC CT 2017, India deserves the credit here for white-washing them in Lanka, people are busy bashing Lanka than praising India for a great all-round performance kinda sounds like they're disappointed they couldn't beat India which anyway was a tough task for them. India deserves all the credit here than Sri Lanka being a crap team as people are pointing it out to be.

I disagree. I do agree that India played well, especially the likes of Rahane, Dhawan and Pujara, however, the performance was heavily supported by mediocre bowling and dreadful fielding. The main discussion around the series is why to play a series against a team that is down and deflated. With Test cricket already being criticised for being boring and long, series like this add to the negative view.

 

[Villain]

I disagree. I do agree that India played well, especially the likes of Rahane, Dhawan and Pujara, however, the performance was heavily supported by mediocre bowling and dreadful fielding. The main discussion around the series is why to play a series against a team that is down and deflated. With Test cricket already being criticised for being boring and long, series like this add to the negative view.

I agree with the latter part of your post but these test series are a part of generating revenues for them(Sri Lanka Cricket Board surely would've benefited) and you can't ignore the weaker teams and not play against them just to keep interest in the game. I'd have loved to see a series against Australia in Australia but we've ICC to blame for all these decisions or the respective boards. Players did they job well by winning the series and should be appreciated.

 

[Ahmad94]

I agree with the latter part of your post but these test series are a part of generating revenues for them(Sri Lanka Cricket Board surely would've benefited) and you can't ignore the weaker teams and not play against them just to keep interest in the game. I'd have loved to see a series against Australia in Australia but we've ICC to blame for all these decisions or the respective boards. Players did they job well by winning the series and should be appreciated.

Can't argue with that.

Really begs for a tier system for Test cricket. Unlike T20 and ODI cricket, Test cricket is rarely won by the weaker of the two sides. A tier system would increase interest in the game, especially with sides like India, Pakistan, Australia, South Africa, England in the top tier. Sri Lanka is in the development period and could do with some games with Bangladesh and help the associates like Ireland and Zimbabwe develop their test games. Although, I don't understand why the likes of Sanga and Mahela retired so soon when they are dominating county cricket (Especially Sanga - who is in the form of his life)

 

[Bilal45]

Rohit sharma vice Captain ODI & T20.