Sri Lanka announce the test team- 2 jungters in

Sri Lanka announce the test team- 2 jungters in


They had a great series against IND but the team doesn't look THAT great on paper...


http://content.cricinfo.com/pakvsl/content/story/388996.html

Sri Lanka Test squad: Mahela Jayawardene (capt), Malinda Warnapura, Tharanga Paranavitana, Kumar Sangakkara, Thilan Samaraweera, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Prasanna Jayawardene, Chaminda Vaas, Muttiah Muralitharan, Ajantha Mendis, Chamara Kapugedera, Farveez Maharoof, Dilhara Fernando, Thilan Thushara, Suranga Lakmal.

Their decision to leave their Pak tour midway to play us in 5 ODIs may cost them dear in this test series.

SG wrote:Their decision to leave their Pak tour midway to play us in 5 ODIs may cost them dear in this test series.

They should win both tests.

They should provided M&M come to party like they did against India.

They're not good enough otherwise.

Their batsmen did quite well too

I remember Sanga getting a ton in the decider and in the 1st test match they scored something like 600/6

But Pak bowling got to be far better than Indian effort in that series. Atleast they won't have Kumble to bear, not to mention an always impotent Bhajji in overseas tests.

SG wrote:But Pak bowling got to be far better than Indian effort in that series. Atleast they won't have Kumble to bear, not to mention an always impotent Bhajji in overseas tests.

3 debutants and D Kaneria

look i don't like to be too defensive when i think PAK have a serious chance of winning the match/series but in this case i will be very surprised if PAK win OR draw the series.

Pak don't have anyone in spin deptt other than Kaneria to fall back on?

Thats very surprising. Whatever happened to Manzoor Ahmed?

Manzoor Ahmed? never heard of him. You probably mean Mansoor Amjad

He had a finger injury or something and decided to do a Malik and now he doesn't bowl much.

Saeed Ajmal has looked decent in ODIs but you can't have 4 bowlers and ALL of 4 them being debutants(or with 1 or 2 games) HENCE Kaneria is a must.

Still IMO its always better to try someone new than trying someone tried and failed.

My Pakistan test team would be-

Butt
Manzoor
Younis(c)
Misbah
Malik
Alam
Sarfraz+
Tanvir
Gul
Talha
Kaneria

For Sri Lanka, i'm surprised that they didn't include Kandamby in the test squad. He looks class. On the other hand, Kapugedara has been given numerous chances, but still hasn't cemented himself in the side.

Kapugedara hasn't scored even a 50 in his last 19 innings. Looks like there is a scope for every underperformer in a team led by someone like Mahela.

SG wrote:Still IMO its always better to try someone new than trying someone tried and failed.

Kaneria has won numerous games for Pakistan both home AND away

Recently his efficiency hasn't been great but i don't think its a good idea to drop him based on 2 bad series when the team is desperate for a bit of experience.

If you drop Danish then from an experience point of view Pakistan would have even LOWER games per player than Bangladesh.

PlanetPakistan wrote:Sri Lanka Test squad:

Mahela Jayawardene (capt), Malinda Warnapura, Tharanga Paranavitana, Kumar Sangakkara, Thilan Samaraweera, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Prasanna Jayawardene, Chaminda Vaas, Muttiah Muralitharan, Ajantha Mendis, Chamara Kapugedera, Farveez Maharoof, Dilhara Fernando, Thilan Thushara, Suranga Lakmal.

What happened to Upul Tharanga and Chamara Silva? These were two good young batsmen.

Henry,

Gul is injured and may NOT feature in the test series

How did Gul and Akhtar get injured? Were they playing in any tournament?

No, they have been injury prone since day 1