tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13644607.post117676865464677379..comments2023-10-15T16:52:02.319+05:30Comments on Lanka Libertarian: what was mahela jayawardene thinking?sittingnuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08409176960405641998noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13644607.post-51017725213802191022007-04-21T03:16:00.000+05:302007-04-21T03:16:00.000+05:30ddm, cerno niro, dulan charith janitha, keshi:grea...<B>ddm, cerno niro, dulan charith janitha, keshi:</B><BR/>great to have you all here. thanks for your comments and for sharing the insights they contain.<BR/><BR/>imo this is one of those decisions we can debate for long time without coming to a conclusion .<BR/><BR/>kumar sangakara has written <A HREF="http://content-sl.cricinfo.com/extracover/content/current/story/291601.html" REL="nofollow"> an excellent article </A> on this. i highlighted it in <A HREF="http://llibertarian.blogspot.com/2007/04/read-kumar-on-selection-decision.html" REL="nofollow"> my next post </A>sittingnuthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08409176960405641998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13644607.post-70434803007371436042007-04-20T10:44:00.000+05:302007-04-20T10:44:00.000+05:30And the Aus newspapers suggested that it was a wal...And the Aus newspapers suggested that it was a walk in the park for the Aus team. No wonder!<BR/><BR/>Keshi.Keshihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17147250771662427208noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13644607.post-66129812444659555962007-04-18T15:16:00.000+05:302007-04-18T15:16:00.000+05:30It was a very good strategy.My feeling is that our...It was a very good strategy.<BR/>My feeling is that our guys use this as a practice match for finals with Aus.<BR/><BR/>Common guys, we as Lankan should be proud of our teams. They were brave enough to do something that no other teams has done b4, hiding their key players and the game plan. To beat Aus one need not only talent, but a master mind plan, something very original. I’m sure that our guys have a very special plan for Aus. (Murali & Vas may be hiding their latest secret balls, only to introduce at finals) They did not want to waste their hard work over a less important match like that. They were targeting the final. And they have a game plan. They know how to tackle Aus & they will.<BR/><BR/>Think, if we lost by playing our full team on that match, it will carry a huge disappointment and negativity to the final. Even if we could win it will do no good. Aus has all the technology they ever need. They will re-plan and come up with a wining strategy to beat us in the finals.<BR/><BR/>Now it is not. Sri Lanka deliberately lost the match. Now Aus will play the same game plan against us on the finals, cause they don’t have to change their strategy. There is no reason for them to do so.<BR/><BR/>Let Aus think that they are the champions, until we get there and show them who are the real champions; with not only talent but brains.Charith Janithahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04937887430561446386noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13644607.post-65841760835134124852007-04-17T22:20:00.000+05:302007-04-17T22:20:00.000+05:30Well, when it comes to international commentary on...Well, when it comes to international commentary on the match, it was nice to see Wasim Akram and Ravi Shasthri both defending Mahela on "Taking Guard" (some show on ESPN).<BR/><BR/>Wasim was saying that it was fully justified, since both Murali and Vaas had some "niggles", which prompted the rest. Shasthri was more direct in saying that either way, tactical reasons were just as good for resting the two.<BR/><BR/>Let's hope the gamble plays off... :-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13644607.post-13474881665022373462007-04-17T13:24:00.000+05:302007-04-17T13:24:00.000+05:30Niro - Footage only goes so far. Take the Shaun Ta...Niro - Footage only goes so far. Take the Shaun Tait example. First time our boys faced him, and I'm sure they studied his bowling over numerous buckets of popcorn prior to this. But Dilshan and Arnie both messed up trying to pull the short ball (Sanath was lucky to escape as well after top edging a hook). Hopefully they'll learn from experience and just not hook him if we play him in the finals. Experience in the middle is a 100 times more important than watching video analysis. (I've been watching Murali since his debut, I should be a master at playing him by now :) )Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13644607.post-71024122249260035712007-04-17T12:10:00.000+05:302007-04-17T12:10:00.000+05:30I couldn't have analyzed this any better than you ...I couldn't have analyzed this any better than you did. great work. <BR/><BR/>to this date i thought mahela was a smart captain. but imo he did the biggest mistake y'day and jeopardized the momentum SL team has been maintaining through out the tournament. i came across several half-ass reasonings for the decision taken up by mahela. the best was "if we had won, hell we beat aussies even with a half assed attack and if we had lost it's because we had a half assed bowling attack". and how stupid is that?<BR/><BR/>experiments should be left to the less important matches, in our case in the next match against irelands. aussies were not the group on which experiments should be carried out. <BR/><BR/><BR/>ddm: <BR/>while disagreeing most of your reasoning for keeping murali away, i agree with you on the issue with marvan. it's baffling to me too why he didn't get a chance as yet. why they didn't play marvan with their "attitude" yesterday is a big question mark for me. and getting back to murali, i think in an era of high tech analysis aussies would have figured out murali's new tactics. ponting (my favourite batsmen as well as my most hated player with his all pompous, condescending attitudes) himself said yesterday that they had a lot of footage of SL and this should provide enough material for them to study murali.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13644607.post-50243419399337092362007-04-17T11:46:00.000+05:302007-04-17T11:46:00.000+05:30I hope he WAS thinking.. not that I'm a great cric...I hope he WAS thinking.. not that I'm a great cricket tactician by any means to second guess ;)<BR/><BR/>Someone once told me that the suspense of this world cup was about finding out who the Aussies will thrash in the finals. I wish I had the cricketing brains to argue or beat him up savagely.<BR/><BR/>It did give a sinking feeling in the guts even before the match started. Sort of like a premonition before a train wreck. This match was too painful to watch. Tried to ignore the howls of pain from the rest of household who were willing to put up with what seemed to be a blood letting.<BR/><BR/>Well it could have been worse, and there's still hope.<BR/><BR/>right?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13644607.post-1176782727842349252007-04-17T09:35:00.000+05:302007-04-17T09:35:00.000+05:30I think keeping murali and mali out was ok. Mali b...I think keeping murali and mali out was ok. Mali bc of the injury and Murali bc i don't think the aussie's have faced his relatively new tactic of bowling around the wicket to right handers on a consistent basis. This has been a superb new addition to his bowling in ODIs and i thought its clever to not let the aussies have a first hand taste of it. And I really wanted Banda to have a game. Why they didn't give Marvan a chance is beyond me.<BR/><BR/>Resting vaas was just not smart, it completely gave the game away bc we didn't have a single specialist new ball bowler and leaking runs from two ends is asking for trouble against aussie. If they wanted to rest vaasy they could have rested him for the Ireland game. He looked a bit grumpy on the bench so i think he'd agree. <BR/><BR/>But all in all, we screwed up bc the batting. Top and lower middle order failed, and coupled with a weak opening attack, we never had a chance. Bigger concern is the wicket in Barbados for the finals, if we make it. Pace, bounce and movement. Good luck top order.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com