Sri Lanka scored 443/50 
Jayasuriya again 157 
in reply Netherlands are 105/4 they require another 339 runs with 6 wickets and 33.0 overs. Required RR: 10.27
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Chalo jee South Africa could only enjoy that highest team total record in an ODI for few months.
Mind you Lankans were the holder of the same record for almost 10 years after scoring 398 against Kenya in Wills World Cup 1996.
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Record … what record?](http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/engvsl/content/current/story/252358.html)
ICC must face up to a problem of its own making
Martin Williamson
July 4, 2006
At Amstelveen today, one of the game’s major records - the highest team total in an ODI - was broken when Sri Lanka scored 443 for 9 against Netherlands, surpassing the 438 for 9 scored by South Africa in March. **You might be forgiven if it slipped by without you noticing. **
Whereas South Africa’s achievements produced headlines across the world and a commemorative DVD, Sri Lanka’s feat will barely register. Despite the ICC according the match the status of a full ODI, there were no TV cameras present, nor was there commentary on the radio.
It is unclear if any journalists made the trip - certainly those from Sri Lanka who had followed the side on their tour of England chose to give the two bolted-on matches in Holland a miss. **It attracted less media attention that a low-key end-of-season county match. **
For the first time in the internet era, even Cricinfo did not carry live scores. We were refused access by the Netherlands board. Clearly we cannot be expected to look at this with complete impartiality, but one would have thought that the Dutch might have been glad for any publicity they could get. Judging by the banks of empty seats at the VRA Ground on a gloriously hot day, the message had not been got across even locally.
The Sri Lankans were not the happiest visitors, with claims that the matches had been arranged by their board at the end of a tough tour of England without any consultation with the players. **It was also reported that the wives were being asked to pay for the privilege of watching their spouses pinch sweets from babies. **
The ICC’s decision to award full ODI status to the six leading Associate countries last year was done for the best of reasons. By increasing their exposure to the big guns, so the argument went, they would only get better. However, once that had been decided, the follow-up to make sure that everything went smoothly simply did not happen.
With no financial support from the ICC for hosting the matches - and this has to be distinguished from annual funding which is used to promote the game itself - the local boards were left to milk the events for all that they were worth, and who could blame them?
But if there was an assumption that TV would flock to the games and underwrite the costs - and that certainly seems to have been the case - that has proved to be wildly inaccurate. There is a glut of cricket on TV without anyone coughing up for what will almost certainly be one-sided affairs of variable duration.
Of the 15 ODIs since the status change on January 1, only five - four in Bangladesh featuring Kenya and England v Ireland - have been televised.
It gets worse. It now seems unlikely that Bangladesh’s three matches in Kenya later this month will be on TV, and there are doubts about their five subsequent games in Zimbabwe which are between two Full Member countries.** In August there are another nine full ODIs which will not be televised. **
In a world where TV is king, this means that matches will be played and records broken without anyone noticing. Cricinfo spoke to a source in Sri Lanka who said that there was no interest whatsoever in today’s game. And that in one of the most cricket-mad countries on the planet.
In any sport, the one thing that will kill it is apathy - whether it be from spectators or the media. After the blur of indifference which greeted Sri Lanka’s 5-0 drubbing of England last week - and the chances are that across the cricket-playing world the headlines will again be dominated by football tomorrow - the ICC needs to some serious thinking.
Martin Williamson is managing editor of Cricinfo
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saeed anwar's record of maximum number of chokas (22 FOURS) also broken in this match when jayasuria hit 24 4s.... :(
its good that the 194 still stands....
but with more matches like these, it might also soon be broken....
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Sri Lanka won by 195 runs.
One of the umpire was S Hameed. He is from Indonesia. I didnt know cricket is popular in Indonesia too.
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Born date unknown.. haiN:clown:?
:hehe:
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For the life of me, I cannot seem to find that particular thread which was made a day after (or even on the same day) on which that gigantic record-breaking total was held between the two cricketing giants. One of the main arguments presented in that thread, if memory serves, was whether or not this magical effect is 'once in a bluemoon' thing, and quite a number of folks agreed that such is the case.
If the general concensus is still the same that what Sri Lanka achieved today is 'once in a bluemoon' thing, then I can't help but predict the future for myself - for which it holds infinite record-breaking totals (including Anwar's 194 being on the verge of demolishment) over the course of many 'blue moons', two of these through which we have already passed through.
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Sri Lanka is in real dhulaai mood these days dhobi, if they play Kenya, Zimbabwe and Bengladesh we might be able to see this record being levelled/reached consistently.
Bravo Jayasuriya bravo :k:
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Absolutely. I, for one, am glad to see Sri Lanka ending on a winning note, especially against the mindsets that Pommies have possessed themselves with nowadays. A little footnote below, even though we have came across with several many in recent memory:
- “It doesn’t reflect our ability,” Fletcher said. “We had to pick a squad of 14 after the Australians toured and we are missing eight of those 14. It would be very interesting if Sri Lanka were missing eight of their players and we had eight of our players back. That is the formula you have to look at. What then would the result have been?” (CricInfo)
All more good reasons for the whitewash, and I am sincerely hoping Pakistan will end up along the same lines, too (better, if not the best).
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^ excuses galore 
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You bet. We all know how poor the infrastructure system is in place of Pakistan’s domestic circuit, but the fact of the matter is, when those boys went sent out in the middle of playing field, they performed their level best with all guns blazing. Sarcasms and negative points aside, they delivered twice in a row and outperformed all other nations, sometimes even on a greater and grander scale than our senior players (Noting back to India vs. Pakistan - 5th ODI in Karachi - same day where the U-19 World Cup title was retained in a miraculous fashion).
Screw this. If those British think that all they can now live for is Ashes and label one of our most important tours as “a small matter”, I say wait and see what they have in store. Almighty royal beating, nothing more, nothing less.
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What are Sri Lankan eating these days?
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Rest assured, it is not sabjee by any means. The stocks of local gosht stores must be very popular in the region.
:D
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:D
Its quite possible they have adopted Abdul Razzaq's diet i.e. spinach :D