Other International Cricket

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great so if an italian is playin is he goin to trip over an fake a broken leg

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Reading an article in the Advertiser today, Italy are on the road to joining those fringe nations. Cricket appears to really be on the rise over there.

Jo Scuderi has a lot to be thanked for that

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Bangladesh vs Sri Lanka
1st Test

DAY ONE

SRI LANKA 3/125 (43.3 overs)
MG Vandort 44
KC Snagakkara 43

It's been too long since Murali has played against Bangladesh, and a no better time to get your 66th 5 wicket haul.

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Bangladesh vs Sri Lanka
1st Test

DAY ONE

SRI LANKA 3/125 (43.3 overs)
MG Vandort 44
KC Snagakkara 43

It's been too long since Murali has played against Bangladesh, and a no better time to get your 66th 5 wicket haul.

Plenty of love in the room

[brod]

Bangladesh vs Sri Lanka
1st Test

STUMPS DAY 3

SRI LANKA 293
TT Samaraweera 90
Shakib Al Hasan 5/70
BANGLADESH 178
Imrul Kayes 33
M Muralitharan 6/49
SRI LANKA 4/291
DPMD Jayawardene 129*
KC Sangakkara 67
TT Samaraweera 62

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A bit of trivia, which country has played the most Tests against Bangladesh? Sri Lanka.

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A bit of trivia, which country has played the most Tests against Bangladesh? Sri Lanka.

This is the 11th CLASH between the nations

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Sri Lanka have had 20 wins against Bangladesh and Zimbabwe in 25 teste, while their other 155 test matches have yielded 34 wins.

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That's not a good stat, but I think they are a better Test side than those stats show. Zimbabwe were going along the same sort of path as they were, until about 1999.

[brod]

Sri Lanka have evn got themselves set up for a Tri-Nations ODI series vs Bangladesh and Zimbabwe in January 09

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No-one will ever catch him for the most wickets taken in either 5 or 1 day form. Ever.

[brod]

Sri Lanka have lost only one test series since 2005/06 (to Australia in 2007/08).
In that time they have beaten South Africa (home 2-0), Bangladesh (home 3-0), England (home 1-0) and India (home 2-0)
And draw with England (1-1 away), New Zealand (1-1 away) and West Indies (1-1 away).

A bit of disparity in home and away form

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That's a common theme amongst the subcontinent nations, the difference in home form to away form. But, that's actually quite impressive those stats.

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No-one will ever catch him for the most wickets taken in either 5 or 1 day form. Ever.

Murali will probably take the ODI lead in that series (currently 12 behind)

[brod]

That's a common theme amongst the subcontinent nations, the difference in home form to away form. But, that's actually quite impressive those stats.

They surprised me

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Murali vs Bangladesh

TEST
10 matches
82 wickets @ 11.7
11 5WI

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They have a positive record in series wins against everyone at home except for Australia and Pakistan:

Sri Lanka:
vs P W L D
Australia: 4 1 3 0
Bangladesh: 3 3 0 0
England: 5 3 2 0
India: 5 3 1 1
New Zealand: 5 2 1 2
Pakistan: 5 0 3 2
South Africa: 4 2 1 1
West Indies: 3 2 0 1
Zimbabwe: 3 3 0 0
Total: 37 19 11 7

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Bangladesh vs Sri Lanka
1st Test
Mirpur


SRI LNAKA WON BY 107 RUNS

SRI LANKA 293
TT Samaraweera 90
Shakib Al Hassan 5/70
BANGLADESH 178
M Muralitharan 6/49
SRI LANKA 6d/405
DPMD Jayawardene 166
KC Sangakkara 67
TT Samaraweera 62
BANGLADESH 413
Mohammad Ashraful 101
Shakis Al Hasan 96
Mushfiqur Rahim 61
M Muralitharan 4/141
KTGD Prasad 3/105

Player of the Match - Shakib Al Hasan

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Few Notes

- Bangladesh's fourth innings of 413 is the 11th highest all time fourth innings score, and is Bangladeshs highest score when batting second in a test match
- Man of the Match Shakib Al Hasan scored a half century and took a five for, for the second time in his career, the other ocassion was against NZ in October
- Mulraltharan has now taken 22 match hauls of ten wickets or more, with 4 coming in the 10 tests he has played against Bangladesh. (The next most 10 wicket match hauls is 10 by Shane Warne)
- The 7th wicket partnership of 111 by Shakib Al Hasan and Mushfiqur Rahim is the highest for Bangladesh all time
- Mohammed Ashraful became the second Bangladesh batsman to score 2000 test runs, and the first to score 5 test centuries

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If only they could put it together for one whole Test, they might win one. Remembering they made 400+ and had Australia at 6/90 odd in the 1st Test in 2006.