Sri Lanka in India

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Dilshan on fire at the moment.

His 2009 has been superb in all forms of the game.

TEST
1097 runs
64.52 average
82.66 s/rate
6 centuries
1 fifty

ODI
971 runs
60.68 average
106.58 s/rate
4 centuries
2 fifties

T20I
471 runs
42.81 average
141.44 s/rate
5 fifties

Yeah not a bad year

[brod]

Thats the sort of conversion rate that could help the Aussies

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Indian batsman Yuvraj Singh has been ruled out of the ongoing one-day international series against Sri Lanka because of a finger injury. Yuvraj had picked up the injury while fielding during the second Twenty20 in Mohali and was subsequently unavailable for the first two ODIs.

[rod_rooster]

The 5th ODI looks like being abandoned due to a dodgy wicket.

[brod]

The 5th ODI looks like being abandoned due to a dodgy wicket.

Spot on RR

The final ODI between India and Sri Lanka on Sunday was abandoned after 23.3 overs after the match officials decided the pitch was of "extremely variable bounce and too dangerous for further play". The immediate fallout of the fiasco was the sacking of the BCCI's Grounds and Wickets Committee, followed by the resignation of their Delhi counterparts, but long-term repercussions could be far more serious: at stake is Delhi's status as a host of the 2011 World Cup, though the ICC has said it will follow the prescribed monitoring process before taking any decision.

[jackpot jim]

The 5th ODI looks like being abandoned due to a dodgy wicket.

Spot on RR

The final ODI between India and Sri Lanka on Sunday was abandoned after 23.3 overs after the match officials decided the pitch was of "extremely variable bounce and too dangerous for further play". The immediate fallout of the fiasco was the sacking of the BCCI's Grounds and Wickets Committee, followed by the resignation of their Delhi counterparts, but long-term repercussions could be far more serious: at stake is Delhi's status as a host of the 2011 World Cup, though the ICC has said it will follow the prescribed monitoring process before taking any decision.

An Absolute DISGRACE on 2 counts.
1/ That the pitch was so bad to start with
and
2/ That the match was called off after 23.2 overs.

Obviously without me seeing the pitch, i cant see how it took 23.2 overs to determine that it was SHHIT.
I can hardly believe that it was dangerous considering all the protection batsmen can wear these days.
The game should have been finished imo.

It would be laughable if one day they call a TEST match off on the last day due to the pitch cracking up and providing extremely variable bounce.

This game has all the signs of match fixing which was going horibly wrong so the best thing to do was abandon it.

I've been a VOLUNTARY curator for 25+ years and have NEVER produced a pitch surface that was dangerous or provided extreme variable bounce so it's hard to believe that something like this could happen at the elite level.

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TA played WA in SS game a few years ago
The pitched was deemed to be unsafe after a couple of days
The game was awarded with outright points to the visiting team

And off course they would complain with a pitch like that in that part of the world
If the ball bounces bail height its considered a minefield

[brod]

On a Kotla pitch where the bounce - from similar lengths - varied from shin to shoulder in as short a spell as three deliveries, Sri Lanka had reason to be thankful that they got away with just two hits on the body that needed attention.