India All Out For 103

Havent seen this guy Perer before. Anyone seen his bowling.

http://www.cricinfo.com/sl-tri2010/content/current/story/473743.html
The Sri Lankan seamers, led by Thisara Perera, owned the first half of the game as India were shot out for 103 in the vital encounter in Dambulla. What stood out was Sri Lanka’s discipline in executing the plan to perfection. What surprised you was how easily India fell into the individual traps.
Sri Lanka had a plan to each batsman, simple in its thought and perfect in its execution. Far often these days, Dinesh Karthik’s plan to tackle the moving new ball, while opening, has been too one-dimensional: He walks down the track in an effort to make the bowler change the length. Nearly always, Kumar Sangakkara counters it by standing up to the stumps. If Karthik has a plan B, it doesn’t really come through with any sort of clarity. Today, again, once Sangakkara stood up, Karthik started to stutter. Nuwan Kulasekara is known for his incutters but he kept pushing them away from Karthik’s outside edge. Sure enough, he fell, nicking one that straightened outside off though the replays didn’t confirm the edge.
For some time now, Rohit Sharma’s iffy foot work has dragged him into trouble. Time and again, he presses that front leg far too across and tries to get the bat around the front pad. Often, he doesn’t manage to do it in time. Today, too, he fell, trapped in right in front by Angelo Mathews. The discipline in the plan came through again: For five deliveries (four in the over before the dismissal), Mathews took it away from Rohit before he brought one back in to get his man.

India’s other young middle-order hope Suresh Raina was repeatedly tested with deliveries in the off-stump corridor. For some reason, Raina, who has been in good form recently, struggled to get on the front foot and paid for it. He edged one from Mathews, which led to a fierce appeal from all the close-in fielders, but wasn’t given out. He poked at a similar delivery from Perera and didn’t seem to get an inside edge but was given out this time.

India slid into further trouble as MS Dhoni fell after a scratchy innings. In the recent past, he has developed this habit of walking forward and across and poking uncertainly at seaming deliveries. Often, it has landed him in trouble. Today, he twice edged Perera just past the lone slip fielder placed slightly wide. On both occasions, Sangakkara was standing up to the stumps. As soon as Sangakkara went back, Dhoni walked forward and across and lunged out at another Perera delivery. Edge and gone!

Only Yuvraj Singh looked in any sort of control. He unfurled a couple of gorgeous drives - one was caressed through extra cover and the other sped away between the bowler and mid-off. He hit a stunning six over wide long-off but fell, given out lbw when a Malinga delivery not only hit him outside the off stump but was also missing it. And the lower order didn’t last long - Ravindra Jadeja squeezed out to gully, Praveen Kumar fell to an over-ambitious hit, Ashish Nehra was bounced out, and Perera completed his maiden five-for when he bowled Ishant Sharma.

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BTW, yesterday star news was running lines on Sehwad Rendiv incident, “jab bhi kisi ney team India sey panga liya hai, team India ney yehi kaha hai, KARARA JAWAB MILEY GA” :omg:

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88 and now 103 :eek: They are improving day by day :lajawab:

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:omg: :omg:

Aur Jawab de dya 103 all out :omg:

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LOL :hehe:

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It's getting more and more obvious that India cannot just have 5-6 power blasters in their line up. With no Sachin and Gambhir.. the 2 sensible ones at the top.. its just one hitter after another.. they really need to play Virat instead of Rohit if both Raina and Yuvraj are playing.

Way too many collapses this series.. from all teams... the dambulla pitch is way too inconsistent..

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103 all out … :hayaa:

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Somehow, I like this aggressiveness from Dhoni & Co…

No-ball incident has made us more aggressive: Dhoni

*DAMBULLA, Aug 21: Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni on Saturday conceded that the no-ball controversy in the last tri-series match against Sri Lanka has turned his players into a more aggressive lot but the team will take care not to cross the line.

”That no ball incident really push us up to be more aggressive. But there is a limit to be aggressive on the field. We don’t really want to cross that boundary though we will be as aggressive as possible on the field,” Dhoni said ahead of India’s penultimate league match against Sri Lanka on Sunday. *

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some more spice here!

India ‘cheated’ by Lankan umpire

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You know what...I was expecting Cricinfo to have a headline such as "Sri Lanka thrash India" or "India bundled out 103" or whatnot, but all they had to say is "Perera 5 for take Sri Lanka to Final"...:)

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India is going through a rebuilding phase like Pakistan was post 2003 world cup. they've lost a bunch of great batsmen in ODIs over the years. things will likely get even more painful for them when Tendulkar retires.

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:D Imagine if it was Pakistan team instead of India, how the Indian run site would have headlines like "Rout" and "thrashed" but Team India never gets thrashed they just lose.

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They r over rated

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haha ehsan ofcourse.. the #1 team does not get thrashed.. we just have a bad day :D

jk. in this game.. the team DID get thrashed.. ofcourse.. come on..100 all out haha... and the headline does not do enuff damage to India.. but for the record ther have been PLENTY of occasions where the headlines in both cricinfo and indian newspaper say indian team got THRASHED or ROUTED...

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Not really, Pakistan trashed big chunk of batsmen post 2003 WC but India has most of them still there i.e. Sehwag, Yuvraj, Dhoni. S Raina has been a good bat is not a newbie either.

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^ i agreee with captain, its just outside india, somehow indian batsmen forgets how to hold bat.........

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In ODI they r not No 1 :nahi:

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http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-blown-away-in-grudge-match/H1-Article1-590218.aspx

:smiley:

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haha I know.. I was jk!!

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I have been following cricinfo headlines for last 6 years and it clearly biased. A fart from Dhoni will be glorified and will have sparkling words all over but when India gets thrashing, they normally don't mention word India in the heading at all. There are atleast 100 examples I can give from last 6 years. This is so filthy Indian takeover of the world cricket. Marketing gai paani mein, decency bhi koi cheez hoti hai chamaar!