Sri Lanka beat Ireland by 8 wickets. How was the match?
like to know your opinions and ideas about both teams...what u think about their performance?
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could not harm a "Hair to the Lions".
"Darryl Hair "tried so, but everybody know who's right by now.
Ofcourse this was not David & Golaith Match.
Ireland is not Minnows anymore.
Ireland quite rightly shown in this world class show piece,when they were cofronted by world cup favourites.
Ireland's World Cup adventure came to curtain down
with a big learning experience as they bundled out for 77 against Lankans .
Surprisingly vass didn't bother Irish openers.
Instead Maharoof took three wickets in an over.
Spin Magician Muralitharan bamboozled the middle order
All ten Ireland wickets fell for 77 in 27 overs -
23 of those Runs coming from last batters Heroics.
M & M 's Maharoof and Muralitharan shared 8 wickets.
Sheer ruthlessness shown by the Sri Lankans inthis match as Mahela suggested in earlier part of the tournament.
this rightly proved out to be even more destructive performance than the Australians managed.
By Irish Players'special 'chicken dancin' spirit and excitement, they remained buoyant until the end.
Irish campaign has been highlighted by their never say die sirit.
this may be taken as alesson to some top teams ironocally,
specially some lost teams from sub continent.
Boyd Rankin and Dave Langford-Smith finished their World Cup with a wicket apiece.
After Jayawardene put Ireland in, the early overs nothing but intense,lead everyone into a false sense of surprise
Since the start of Maharoof's first over didn't suggest the bounty that would soon come his way.
Beligerent OpenerJeremy Bray who is the only Centurion in the cup,whacked the opening 2 balls to the boundary,
Bray had been deceived by Maharoof's well diguised slower ball, balooning an off side drive.
Surprisingly Ireland changed the batting order, promoting Andre Botha to No. 3.
This experiment lasted 2 balls as he fished one outside off stump with no footwork.
While Botha's was a poor shot, Eoin Morgan couldn't do much about his dismissal - a perfect line and length from round the wicket producing an edge, which Keeper Sangakkara grabbed it mid air low to his left
New ball Bowler Vaas, back in the side after missing the match against Australia along with Muralitharan, wasn't at his best with the new ball,
But Nuwan Kulasekara kept a tight line for the irish openers.
English county players,William Porterfield and Niall O'Brien survived 10 overs before Maharoof struck again
High averaging Porterfield top-edging a pull to mid-on.
BY then, Ireland's problems were only just starting.
At the start of the 19th over Muralitharan - 447 ODI wickets, - took the ball and by the end of it had added two more wickets to his marching towards Pakistan great Akram's world record 500 ODI wickets
Ireland's batsmen are not the first, and certainly won't be the last, to be made to look foolish by Murali's skills.
Most prolific Niall O'Brien edged a conventional offbreak .
Then Kenny Carroll's first World Cup outing lasted two balls before he swept and missed at a doosra. Muralitharan collected one of the easiest four-wicket hauls of his career as the lower order proved clueless against his variations.
Then Maharoof showed hisnew found fielding skills.
Irish captain Trent Johnston drove a ball back down the pitch, Maharoof dived in his follow through, picked up and threw down the stumps at the non-striker's end.
Langford-Smith brought out the long handle, swinging a Six over deep midwicket and shimmying down the pitch to whip Muralitharan through the on side.
It was a heroic shot to tell their grandchildren about; the innings won't be remembered quite so dearly & the stroke was specially to world's most fearsome bowler.
Now this makes semi final selection much more interesting ,Maharoof being 'Man of the Match."
Now Lankans possese 5 match winning Bowlers
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i want to appreciate ireland team,because even though they are all out for 77 .they bowled well and took 2 wickets.they also fielded well till last ball.Don't u think there still there is inner differenmcesbetween chappell and ganguly .?
no competition at all.the only thing the irish were good at was fielding.that match truly spelled the meaning of one sided.
it was just a walk in the park for the lankans.
Which indian took all ten wickets in an inning?against whom?
Sri Lanka rocked! Ireland was thrashed for jus 77 runs. But I shud appreciate Ireland becuz though Sri lanka is a tuff team, none of the players lost their courage but united in obedience to the call of duty. They were actually having fun. When Sri lanka was chasing, when they were about to win, the Ireland wicket keeper and slips were laughing till their stomach dropped and all their teeth fell out!! They were really enjoying!! They didn't mean to win at all. But they put up big last wicket partnership. Sri Lanka was defintely gonna win. They should have won by 10 wickets. too bad they won by 8...Predict the best 11 players from the Indian team in the world cup?
We all knew that Sri Lanka is capable enough to beat the IIrish team.It was stunning to watch the way they dismissed them so early. Good to see Mahela improving his batting ability.
But on the other hand Irish team has lots of potential , they have beaten the up coming rival team Bangladesh, gave a good challenge to England.
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the match was very intresting & the bowling performance of maharoof&muralidaran is very nice. the run out of johnston by maharoof was very wellNew zealand lost to Bangladesh hahahahahahhahahahah?
well wht can i say ..d match was pretty much 1 sided ..
i feel tat d wc 2007 is quite borin dude to matches being 2 much 1 sided .. hopefully d semis ll b better..
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It was very boring match..It was one sided from the beginning
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it was damn boring to watch n predictable.Who took maximum wickets in the 2003 World Cup?
cannot consideer it as a world cup match it was something like street cricket with a tennis ball.Who is the odd man out and why ?
The match was one-sided I agree. The thing I cant understand is that the lankans won the toss and most probably all the team I knew will elect to bat first if they knew their batting part was quite fragile instead they chose to field first . I will appreciate Ireland as their feilding was ossom! & the way Kumar Sangakara was caught showed their ability of playing good cricket & the chicken dance they danced showed their spirit on cricket.The lankans were incredible in their bowling , Mahroof was the man who did the damaged & muralidaran was amazing the lower order with his doosra.Jayawardene was captaining the team brilliantly and now he is also batting fast.
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Chappells as coach was recommended by ganguly and dravid suggested Tim mody name for team India coachUnder tim mody SL is playing superb cricket None of senior player /ex captain m envied mahila’s his promotion as captain From the outset they gave unstinting support. they remained hungry to perform and did not rely on reputation or popular support to protect their places.
ganguly's success as captain is b'czu of contributions of dravid sachin laxman kumble and sewag NOT CERTIANLY HIS LEADERSHIP QUALITIES LIEK takign out shirt, making opposition captain wait for toss, yelling at bowlers for loose balls, making funny face on field, argueing umpers etc..
DRAVID ANCHORED SUCCESS FOR GANGULY AS CAPTAIN DRAVID IS PILLAR FOR GANGULY SUCCESS IN ODIS AND TEST AS SUCCSSFUL CAPTAIN
BUT SELFISH OPPERTUNIST GANGULY BETRYED DALMIAY, DRAVID SACHIN 2 super starts ganguly and sachin are played many odis opening and had chance to face more balls. ganguly and sachin are considered more taltened odi batsman and natural stroke makers while dravid was once considered not fit for odis.honest hard work brings rewards not the dirty dressing room politics. dravid's odi career best example for that. DRAVID is still ranked xii in ICC odi ranking AND HAD WON 3 ICC AWARDS
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match was good.because mharoof was take4wicket.ireland was good play.Don't u think rahul is going to be prove a failure capatain in upcoming world cup?
Sri Lanka played up to their potential.Ireland's batting was a failure but they won in getting 2 wickets when Lankan score was 25.It is a good work.it's shortest period of time in the field for lions.
Some hypocrites beleived that Ireland could cause some majour upset.
but it turned out to be the biggest missmatch as Ian Chappel explains in cricinfo
anyhow now enybody have bright ideas to beat Ever improving Srilanka is ,become a immpossible target
6th lowest total in world cup history...
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