New Zealand vs Sri Lanka. 2nd Test Match

[irottev]

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Cutoff Date: December 11 @ 9:32 PM GMT. [Start time of the match]

Just for the second test match of the two match series. New Zealand lead 1-0. Game is to be played at the Basin Reserve in Wellington.

Squads:
New Zealand
SP Fleming (captain)
CS Martin
NJ Astle
SE Bond
CD Cumming
JEC Franklin
JM How
BB McCullum (wicketkeeper)
IE O'Brien
JDP Oram
MS Sinclair
DL Vettori

Sri Lanka
DPMD Jayawardene (captain)
TM Dilshan
CRD Fernando
WCA Ganegama
ST Jayasuriya
HAPW Jayawardene
CK Kapugedera
MF Maharoof
SL Malinga
M Muralitharan
KC Sangakkara (wicketkeeper)
LPC Silva
WU Tharanga
WPUJC Vaas

Same as last time.

Good luck to all who enter in a side!

http://www3.cricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/2006-07/SL_IN_NZ/

 

[ZexyZahid]

It will be a bit easier to pick the captain now if the pitch is again bowler's friendly. I think this time I'll choose more New Zealand players.

 

[irottev]

I think the Basin will be batter friendly. But I thought the same thing about Jade. Not that it was bad, mainly just because the batting was poor and the bowling of some of the highest standard I have seen in a long time.

 

[ZexyZahid]

I dropped Jayasuriya and Jayawardene and both got ducks. The bad news is that I dropped Martin also and he got three wickets so far.

Sangakkara is on 71 runs and I've got him as bonus player.

 

[saurabh2185]

I dropped Jayasuriya and Jayawardene and both got ducks. The bad news is that I dropped Martin also and he got three wickets so far.

Sangakkara is on 71 runs and I've got him as bonus player.

:laugh Same here i also dropped Jayasuriya and Jayawardene and also Malinga and he also took 3 wickets . But my captain Fleming also scored a duck. So literally i am out of this.

Also we have the same team. Except you have Oram and i have Sinclair.

 

[aussie1st]

Knew I should have captained Sangakkara, I dropped Malinga and brought in Franklin which has backfired so far.

 

[ZexyZahid]

Cumming didn't do much. He was supposed to me one who should make the difference.

But I am expecting Muralitharan to get a lot of wickets.

 

[aussie1st]

Oh you have Cumming too Great minds think alike once more
NZ/SL batsmen are too much of a lottery as you don't know how they will go.

 

[Octavius]

Oh you have Cumming too Great minds think alike once more
NZ/SL batsmen are too much of a lottery as you don't know how they will go.

wow a lot of ducks :help

i think picking the right bowlers and having a good one (Malinga) as captain would be the way to go.

i have been so busy at work :onpc i have not made very clever selections of late and even missed the SA vs PAK test

 

[ZexyZahid]

Plympilgrim has Lasith Malinga and Muralitharan as captain.
Shanewarne has Lasith Malinga and Sangakkara as captain, but is missing Daniel Vettori.
Superstars has Lasith Malinga, but the wrong captain in Franklin.
Sureshot has Lasith Malinga, but the wrong captain in Jayawardene

I think Pilgrim (and maybe Shanewarne) will be on top, so the last spot will be decided with a team with Muralitharan as captain. But if Muralitharan gets about three wickets or more the Sangakkara as captain is negated.

 

[irottev]

1 plympilgrim - 1487
2 abhiram_rs - 1390
3 macho212 - 1332
4 RabbleRouser - 1309
5 srinidhi2006 - 1305
6 ZexyZahid - 1304
7 aussie1st - 1287
8 superstars - 1242
9 Octavius - 1241
10 gamerkid22 - 1216
11 irottev - 1208
12 shanewarne - 1190
13 hardikvasha - 1186
14 saurabh2185 - 1179
15 iceman_waugh - 1175
16 akira2291 - 1085
17 y2j826 - 1081
18 Sureshot - 1068
19 Prakash - 1011
20 Abhas - 961
21 yashved - 935
22 Tarzan - 912
23 MrCricket - 912
24 deepakv5000 - 904


Congrats to the winners

 

[ZexyZahid]

I am on the sixth position, but on points I am pretty close. Having Vettori would have made me third.

And congratulations to the top 3.

 

[aussie1st]

Not a bad effort there considering I was missing Malinga. Congrats to plympilgrim.

 

[Sureshot]

High scoring event. A lowest of 904 must be one of the highest bottom scores for a single test in a while.

 

[plympilgrim]

wow my first win!!