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Finals day

Submitted by rickeyre on April 28, 2007 - 12:23pm

For the first time since 1983, the Cricket World Cup Final is on a Saturday. I think that's fabulous, especially as the game will be played overnight Australian time (11.30pm to about 7am).

Seeing my pre-tournament prediction of South Africa fall in a screaming heap in the semi-final, I would be very doubtful of anything other than a decisive Australian victory tonight. Sri Lanka, while they'll be the popular favourite and will no doubt have all of South Asia behind them, would in reality have to pull off an upset to win this time around.

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Year XXVII, Finals II and III, XI days after

Submitted by rickeyre on February 26, 2006 - 2:43am

For one reason or another, this is the first chance I have had to write up my thoughts on the VB Series finals. I'll turn this into a memory test, and not refer to any source material:

Australia won. Sri Lanka had the series in their grasp until Jayawardene grasped a half-volley off Ponting in Game Two.

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Year XXVII boring? What about Year XXII

Submitted by rickeyre on February 12, 2006 - 4:33am

It's just about time to embark on the post-mortems for the 27th annual Australian ODI triseries. With this in mind, I thought it might be worthwhile to delve deep into the bowels of CricInfo archives and look at an exercise I conducted at the end of the 2000-01 tournament (the Carlton Series as it was called that year).

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VB Series, Year XXVII, Final I. Dilshan!

Submitted by rickeyre on February 12, 2006 - 4:16am

We're one game away from what would be the best thing to happen to Australian cricket in years. A cleansweep drubbing by Sri Lanka in the ODI triseries final.

Of course, we can probably expect Australia to win game two at the SCG and then have an acrimonious game three at the ~~Telstra Dome~~ Gabba on Tuesday. But a two-zip to Sri Lanka would put a big smile on my face, and on many others no doubt.

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VB Series, Year XXVII, Games VIII, IX, X, XI and XII: blip

Submitted by rickeyre on February 11, 2006 - 5:20am

That annual ritual of playing twelve games to eliminate one team from a three-team competition is over for another year. Graeme "The Mouth" Smith takes the South Africans home after Sri Lanka took the bonus points that mattered. Australia hasn't lost a BH/CUB/VB finals series since 1993. Fingers crossed for the Moody one.

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VB Series, Year XXVII, Games III, IV, V, VI and VII: Go Baghdatis!

Submitted by rickeyre on January 27, 2006 - 4:20pm

Sorry guys, but I have been finding the Australian Open far more interesting than the blandness of the VB Series thus far. I'm really enjoying watching Marcos Baghdatis in action. He's just won a rain-interrupted (and what a time for that to happen) semi against David Nalbandian for the right to be hammered by Roger Federer on Sunday night (or Nicolas Kiefer if he's very, very lucky). The Guardian did an over-by-over of the tennis if you don't know what I'm talking about.

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VB series. Year XXVII, Game I. Yawn.

Submitted by rickeyre on January 14, 2006 - 3:29pm

Australia 318 for 5. Sri Lanka 202 for 7. Murali 10-0-67-0. Brett Lee didn't kill anyone. The Telstra Dome looked great with the roof open. Game II at the Gabba on Sunday. Can South Africa come within 95 runs of the Aussies in a Fifty50 game?

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Where Are All the Dead Animals? Sri Lanka Asks

Submitted by rickeyre on December 30, 2004 - 12:03am

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lankan wildlife officials are stunned -- the worst tsunami in memory has killed around 22,000 people along the Indian Ocean island's coast, but they can't find any dead animals.

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Pakistan, Sri Lanka exchange Test for more ODIs

Submitted by rickeyre on January 17, 2002 - 4:00pm

Another blow has been dealt to the future of Test cricket in the women's game, with the decision to scrap the one-off Test between Sri Lanka and Pakistan which was scheduled to begin this Sunday.

At the request of the Pakistan Women's Cricket Control Association (PWCCA), the four-day Test, which was to have commenced at the Colts Ground, Colombo, on January 20, has been converted to three limited-over matches, to be played on Sunday 20, Tuesday 22 and Wednesday 23 January.

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Pakistan to replace WI on Sri Lankan tour

Submitted by rickeyre on December 6, 2001 - 5:00pm

Pakistan will play one Test and three one-day internationals in Sri Lanka in January following the cancellation of the West Indies' tour.

The West Indies Women's Cricket Federation decided last month that they would not proceed with their tour of Sri Lanka and Pakistan because of security concerns related to geopolitical instability in the south Asian region.

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