Sri Lanka v India, ODI Tri-Nation, Final, Dhaka, Jan 13

yay.

Finally the Final. Don't think Indians were ever so bored of watching cricket even though their team is playing quite well.

philcric wrote:Finally the Final. Don't think Indians were ever so bored of watching cricket even though their team is playing quite well.

Spot on. However given our dismal finals record, I am a tad keen on how the game plays out.

I hope this is a best-of-three final series? The more the merrier, eh?

We play until we win.

There's an entertaining article about watching this match on TV in teh UK on cricinfo's 'page 2' site. It basically goes something like turn on TV, watch toss, see he bowls first, then switch off.

Sounds like televised soggy biscuit

Trev has the rights to that, doesn't he?

India going at almost a run a ball. 47 runs in the 9th over. Four wickets lost might be a problem though.

And then there were 5 . . . .

They're just doing that to avoid the problem of bowling under the lights.

he who bats last bats longest . . .

Unless they collapse.

Saw the scorecard and wasn't surprised. There was always going to be a problem the minute Dinesh Karthick was unfairly dropped despite doing well with an unfit, injured and without any match practice Yuvraj. The middle order was shaky and hiding Sehwag for 2 games was another 50:50 decision. Dhoin's poor judgement and favoritism in selecting an untried Yuvraj in the critical final smacks of poor judgement and bias. Another finals choke looks inevitable.

This series has been so depressing i'm almost tempted to self harm.


Goooo Raina.

Well done Sri Lanka. Congrats on a 6th, 7th, 8th whatever tri-series trophy win against us since 1998. Well played!

good effort to make 245 from there

Nice. Nehra getting injured in the middle of a game yet again and Sreesanth bowling pies straight off injury and having Yuvraj in without a match under his belt too. Could Dhoni have been an over-optimistic captain here?

Don't think Dhoni's captaincy made much difference given the toss.

This has suddenly gotten very interesting. India may regret not batting out their full 50 overs. Run scoring hasn't been easy at all and all credit to India [no thanks to Nehra] for still keeping the Lankans down. The last few 4th and 5th bowler slot will just ruin it in the last 5 overs.....

Bhajji did very well. Surprising!

Feck it, 250 - 260 would have won the game for us. Lanka will win easily last 2 overs. Mahela will ensure the trophy.

Ooh. A run out.....

Can there be a tie....?????