View Full Version : Sri Lanka vs Australia: team of the series
CatManDo
29 Mar 2004, 09:59
Great Test series. Now pick your best team. This wasnt as easy as I first thought.
Hayden
Jayasuria
Samaraweera
Martyn
Lehmann
Dilshan
Gilchrist
Vaas
Warne
Kaspa
Murali
12th: Gillespie
Found it difficult to place the 6th batsman... could have gone to a few.
Yeah i would say that i would pick the same players.
Not a huge number of standouts on the Sri Lanka side.
Replace Hayden with Langer....
apollo_creed
29 Mar 2004, 16:26
Replace Gilchrist with Sangakkara.
They had a similar time of it with the bat, although Gilly will be slightly up bcause of his century.
But the glovework of Kumar is brilliant and that alone earns him a spot in the team of the series.
Jars458
29 Mar 2004, 16:31
Originally posted by apollo_creed
Replace Gilchrist with Sangakkara.
They had a similar time of it with the bat, although Gilly will be slightly up bcause of his century.
But the glovework of Kumar is brilliant and that alone earns him a spot in the team of the series.
I thought his glovework was appalling at times.
He let plenty of byes go through and dropped a couple of sitters
Gilly easy.
CatManDo
29 Mar 2004, 16:34
Originally posted by Jaymin
Replace Hayden with Langer....
Do you have one of those reason thingy's or is this just you being funny?
The Spornstar
29 Mar 2004, 16:38
Originally posted by Jars458
I thought his glovework was appalling at times.
He let plenty of byes go through and dropped a couple of sitters
Gilly easy.
Agreed. He was sloppy, Gilly for me too.
Definately go with Gilly
Gilly averaged 40
Sangakarra averaged 18
GrahamH
29 Mar 2004, 23:28
Originally posted by zull
Definately go with Gilly
Gilly averaged 40
Sangakarra averaged 18
To be fair, Sangarkarra had to bat 3/4 in the entire series after some long days behind the stumps. I would have Sangarkarra at 3, (without gloves, he has made a double century batting there) and Gilly with gloves at 7. I also think Katich at 6. A sad indicment I know but he deserves it more on the strength of one Innings (at a critical time) than anyone else.
Hayden
Jayasuriya
Sangarkarra (Ponting if you want a captain for the side, otherwise Jayasuriya captain with Gilly V/C)
Martyn
Lehmann
Katich
Gilchrist (wk)
Vass
Warne
Kaspa
Murali
12th Symonds (you need a gun fielder as 12th Man ;) )
langer
hayden
ponting
martyn
lehman
katich
symonds
gilly
warne
dizzy
kaspa
magilla
after all ,,, we did pump them 3 zip....