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Mumbai Indians bag him for $100,000. Nita and Harbhajan celebrate. Bids open for Sunil Narine, sold to Kolkata Knight Riders for $700,000. England's Graeme Swann with a base price of $400,000 goes unsold. Australia's Xavier Doherty, on sale at base...
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(Australia); Tamim Iqbal (Bangladesh); Mal Loye (England); Lou Vincent, Ian Butler, Andy McKay, Rob Nicol, Doug Bracewell, (New Zealand); Lonwabo Tsotsobe, Rory Kleinveldt, Herschelle Gibbs, Marchant de Lange, Johan van der Wath, (South Africa); Upul...
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At the highest level - Test Cricket, mystery does not survive for long. Most batsmen work out mystery bowlers quite quickly, as Ajantha Mendis, Jack Noriega, Sonny Ramadhin and others (Saeed Ajmal will join this group soon I suspect) will testify. What...
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As far back as 2007, after the first Test at Lord's, many experts surmised that the end was near; just making 30s and 40s was costing the great men too much of their energy, and that as batsmen on the wrong side of 30, it was only going to get worse. ...
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Mahela Jayawardene was suffering from back strain and would be replaced by Lahiru Thirimanne, while off-spinner Sachithra Senanayake had been flown out to replace the injured Ajantha Mendis. Jayawardene said the Sri Lankans were very disappointed with...
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We owe it to our fans back home.” *Off-spinner Sachithra Senanayake will replace the injured Ajantha Mendis in Sri Lanka’s squad for the remainder of the ODI series. Mendis had a recurrence of his back problem before the second match in East London. ...
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Dilshan said the make-up of the side may have affected their ability to claim more wickets. "Another spinner might have been handy on this wicket," Dilshan admitted. Sri Lanka could not play two specialist spinners because Ajantha Mendis was out with...
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Senanayake has received his first Sri Lanka call-up after fellow spinner Ajantha Mendis returned home with a back complaint Off-spinner Sachithra Senanayake will join the Sri Lanka squad for the remainder of their one-day series with South Africa as a...
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South Africa remained unchanged from the first ODI which they won by a 258 runs to lead the five-match series 1-0. Sri Lanka made two forced changes to their bowling attack. Seam bowler Dilhara Fernando has returned home with a knee injury and...
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Africa's pace battery, and said he would have batted if he had won the toss. South Africa had no reason to tinker with an XI that inflicted a 258-run defeat on the visitors, but Sri Lanka were forced to bring in Dhammika Prasad and Rangana Herath in...
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But Ashwin bowls too many of those silly leg-floaters, which he calls the "Sudoku ball". Ashwin learnt to bowl the delivery - along the lines of Ajantha Mendis' finger-flicked offerings - in the backstreets of Chennai with a tennis ball. But unlike the...
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Sri Lanka's bowling had gone through a total makeover, with no specialist bowler surviving from the Cape Town Test. Lasith Malinga took his place as pace spearhead, Dilhara Fernando returned from his knee problem, the two Kulasekaras - Kosala and Nuwan...
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Faf du Plessis, Albie Morkel , Robin Peterson , Dale Steyn , Morne Morkel , Lonwabo Tsotsobe Sri Lanka: Tillakaratne Dilshan (captain), Upul Tharanga, Kumar Sangakkara (wk), Dinesh Chandimal, Mahela Jayawardene, Angelo Mathews, Kosala Kulasekara, Nuwan...
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A ball later Amla was out when he edged Malinga to Sangakkara and then JP Duminy was back in the hut for the tamest of caught-and-bowled dismissals to Ajantha Mendis for a duck. Faf du Plessis and Dale Steyn became victims four and five for Malinga...
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Africa will consider two spinners for the game. The Sri Lanka top six all pick themselves, while the bowling could be very different from the Cape Town Test. Malinga is a certainty, Dilhara Fernando is fit after a knee problem that kept him out of the...
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Thereafter, the Sri Lankans were propped up by chirpy cameos from the youngsters in the middle order - Lahiru Thirimanne and Dinesh Chandimal. Legspinner Alistair Gray slowed down the visitors with three strikes in the middle overs, but Lasith Malinga...
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Paarl has not hosted an international match since the World Cup in 2003. The pitch at Boland Park is known as one of the slowest in South Africa, which should suit a sub-continental team such as Sri Lanka. The conditions could encourage Sri Lanka to...
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The Test series is currently tied 1-1. Sri Lanka one-day squad: Tillakaratne Dilshan (captain), Angelo Mathews, Upul Tharanga, Kumar Sangakkara, Mahela Jayawardene, Dinesh Chandimal, Kosala Kulasekara, Thisara Perera, Lasith Malinga, Nuwan Kulasekara,...
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Kulasekera has been sidelined by a series of leg injuries which kept him out of the Sri Lanka team for five months. Sri Lanka also recalled batsman Lahiru Thirimanne, fast bowler Dhammika Prasad and spinners Rangana Herath and Ajantha Mendis. Chamara...
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