Sri Lanka tour of Zimbabwe

[imported_Rollo]

Well, there will always be a player of good quality in the Zimbabwe team, in this case, it's Taibu.

 

[HArrIS]

good try has been done by the zimbabweians to prevent whitewash and some great swinging deliverys by taibu :

 

[andrew_nixon]

A draw for Sri Lanka as they warm up for the test series.

Result

Zimbabwe A 1st Innings: 294 all out
Sri Lanka 1st Innings: 461 all out (Jayawardene 113)
Zimbabwe A 2nd Innings: 306/8 declared

Match drawn

 

[imported_Rollo]

The Zimbabwe A team is (unsurprisingly with the players they've got) btter than the first team!

 

[jeromedascorp]

congrats to Murali. Ties the world record and I reckon he will beat it by the end of this test

 

[andrew_nixon]

**UPDATE**

1st Test - Close Of Play - Day One

Zimbabwe 1st Innings: 199 all out (Murali 6/45)
Sri Lanka 1st Innings: 67/0

 

[andrew_nixon]

**UPDATE**

1st Test - Close Of Play - Day Two

Zimbabwe 1st Innings: 199 all out (Murali 6/45)
Sri Lanka 1st Innings: 456/7 (Atapattu 170, Jayasuriya 157)

 

[andrew_nixon]

**UPDATE**

1st Test - Match Over

Result

Zimbabwe 1st Innings: 199 all out (Murali 6/45)
Sri Lanka 1st Innings: 541 all out (Atapattu 170, Jayasuriya 157)
Zimbabwe 2nd Innings: 102 all out (Zoysa 5/20)

Sri Lanka win by an innings and 240 runs

 

[imported_Rollo]

Murali beat Courtney Walsh's test record of 519 wickets.

 

[imported_fastbreaker]

: Well done Murali! :

 

[andrew_nixon]

**UPDATE**

2nd Test - Close Of Play - Day One

Zimbabwe 1st Innings: 228 all out
Sri Lanka 1st Innings: 18/0

 

[azp]

i think murali's not allowed to bowl the 'doosra' anymore. i think it was the ICC's decision. however i guess zimbabwe are anyway too weak. the test series will probably be a whitewash as well. <_<

 

[azp]

My mistake. i think what was said was that murali can't bowl the doosra for this test or till the icc reach some decision about the angle of his arm or something not forever.

 

[azp]

D. Ebrahim played well till he was caught by dilshan that is. suprisingly (for me that is) murali got only 2 wickets. 2/58 i believe. :OOO:

 

[azp]

by the way i read an article about some umpire (i think it was the first umpire who suspected murali's action i don't remember the name) who said that "Muttiah Muralitharan's record breaking achievement made me sick in the stomach. I can't believe that the ICC is still allowing him to bowl. Once I took a protracter and used it with a photo of Muralitharan during his bowling action and found that his arm was bent at an unacceptable angle." the article went on and on following these same lines. what do you all think of that? :saywhat: