Thu 27 June England v Sri Lanka Trent Bridge (Floodlit)
Sat 29 June England v India Lord’s
Sun 30 June India v Sri Lanka Oval
Tue 2 July England v Sri Lanka Headingley
Thu 4 July England v India Durham (Floodlit)
Sat 6 July India v Sri Lanka Edgbaston
Sun 7 July England v Sri Lanka Old Trafford
Tue 9 July England v India Oval
Thu 11 July India v Sri Lanka Bristol(Floodlit)
Sat 13 July Final Lord’s
Every team has some strength’s, Sri Lanka and India are strong in batting while England is reasonably strong in both batting and bowling with a distinct advantage over the other two teams in fielding.
I predict England will win the series. What do you think?
[This message has been edited by ehsan (edited June 27, 2002).]
Alec Stewart also played very well. Sri Lanka lost by 44 runs. Fielding by England was very good and the spectacular catch by Naseer Hussain to dismiss Jayasuriya is one of the best catches I have ever seen.
[This message has been edited by ehsan (edited June 27, 2002).]
WOW!
Surprised by the result, expected Srilanka to win atleast in one days.
Most I'm impressed at is England, they have changed alot since the last time I saw them play, alot of young players who play exciting cricket, I was wrong about them being boring.
Now they can be a threat to Pakistanis in the world cup.
Nah!
Dissappointed at Srilankan bowlers, it is understood that Pakistan is able to score a huge one against Srilanka but England.
It looks like the tigers are just a one man bowling team, they are heading towards the same direction as India did after Kapil.
England won the toss against India and have elected to bat. England team unchanged.
India has gone in with only four regular bowlers, Zaheer, Agarkar, Kumble and Harbhajan. The fifth will be shared by the part timers. A dangerous strategy indeed, especially as Agarkar is not something to shout about.
[This message has been edited by ehsan (edited June 29, 2002).]
A great match, England 271 and India 272/4 in 48.5 overs. Well played India. Yuvraj took three wickets and scored 64 not out. However India nearly messed it up after a marvellous start and then losing four quick wickets including that of Tendulkar for 1. I still think playing 7 batsmen and 4 bowlers is a risky strategy and remains to be seen whether they will stick to it tomorrow against Sri Lanka.
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Originally posted by ehsan: A great match, England 271 and India 272/4 in 48.5 overs. Well played India. Yuvraj took three wickets and scored 64 not out. However India nearly messed it up after a marvellous start and then losing four quick wickets including that of Tendulkar for 1. I still think playing 7 batsmen and 4 bowlers is a risky strategy and remains to be seen whether they will stick to it tomorrow against Sri Lanka.
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I'm impressed by Yuvraj, he came up with some big shots today. Hope he doesn't go into his slumber and get kicked out again.
I wonder if Giles had a go at Yuvraj because he's reknowned for being weak against slow bowling. Wonderful bowling by Giles too against some daunting strokemakers. Kudos to English fielding too! Well done Bharat!
Forget Yuvraj, the guy who I'm impressed by is Sehwag, so far all the matches i have seen him in is he scores 60s and 70s.
Indian's have very few but very good promising young players, he may well on to to better than Sachin, very good player.
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Originally posted by UMAIR316:
**Forget Yuvraj, the guy who I'm impressed by is Sehwag, so far all the matches i have seen him in is he scores 60s and 70s.
Indian's have very few but very good promising young players, he may well on to to better than Sachin, very good player.
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Yes...he is very good but sometimes he just gets carried away.I think its just lack of experience or rush of blood.But yes he is very promising.
[This message has been edited by andha_qanoon (edited June 29, 2002).]
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Originally posted by ehsan: A great match, England 271 and India 272/4 in 48.5 overs. Well played India. Yuvraj took three wickets and scored 64 not out. However India nearly messed it up after a marvellous start and then losing four quick wickets including that of Tendulkar for 1. I still think playing 7 batsmen and 4 bowlers is a risky strategy and remains to be seen whether they will stick to it tomorrow against Sri Lanka.
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Well, Congratulations to our Team. We did mess up after a very good start but I think Credit should go to English Team for taking catches which were almost impossibles.
In a way this english Team is very similar to Indian Team - Both have a strong batting line up and a novice attack, They both have a Wicket Keeper who bat very well.
Ehsan Bhai - I am never too worried about not having the fifth bowler esp when we have Ganguly as a decent part time bowler (At times wicket taker as well) plus having Shehwag,Yuvraj and Sachin who can bowl 10 over very well among themselves. IT IS THE AGARKAR FACTOR, I always worry about - The Guy proves again and again that he shouldn't be there in the team.
I also couldn't understand why they were playing Two spinners instead of having another fast bowler (Okay fellas Medium fast - dont kill me on that) when they already had Shehwag,Yuvraj and Sachin to Bowl spin esp when England is known as a heaven for swing bowlers.
Anyways - Congratulations !! to Ganguly and his Team. Well Played Dravid,Yuvraj and Shehwag and above all Trescothick for his fine batting.
AK
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In the third match Sri Lanka has won the toss and elected to bat. India has made one change from the team which beat England yesterday. Harbajhan has been replaced by Nehra.
Sehwag played really well against ENG some cool shorts really fun to watch. Did anyone watched IND vs SL match man that was fun to watch. But I think IND vs ENG the first match was more interesting. Everyone looked so tence at the end