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Indian Express (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
... style. There is no point in totally changing the style of a player. There is no point in making a Jayasuriya into an Atapattu. But when we see an action that could see a bowler become injury prone, we make a few changes depending on the bio-mechanical body moler. If you take the fast bowling industry, it has become quite mechanical. They can be successful, of course, but it depends. We concentrate...
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King Cricket (Free subscription) | yesterday
If Sanath Jayasuriya’s catchphrase would be ‘ha-haaaa‘, then Mahela Jayawardene’s ought to be just silence. He’s not speaking because he’s concentrating. Jayawardene averages near enough a hundred at Galle, but it’s at the Sinhalese Sports Club Ground that he REALLY likes batting. No-one’s ever scored more Test runs at a single ground than Jayawardene at the [...]
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Indian Express (Free subscription) | yesterday
... third wicket which was second-best third-wicket partnership for Sri Lanka against India, behind Sanath Jayasuriya and Aravinda de Silva's 218-run stand at Colombo in 1997-98. • The 148-run stand between Jayawardene and Thilan Samaraweera was the third century stand for the fourth wicket for Sri Lanka against India in Tests.
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The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
HIGHEST TOTALInd — 676/7d (Kanpur, 1986-87)SL — 952/6d (Colombo, RP, 1997-98, World record)LOWEST TOTALInd — 167 (Chennai, 2005-06)SL — 82 (Chandigarh, 1990-91)TOTAL 100s57 (32 by India; 25 by SL)HIGHEST INDIVIDUAL SCOREInd — 199 Mohammed Azharuddin (Kanpur, 1986-87)SL — 340 Sanath Jayasuriya (Colombo, RP, 1997-98)LEADING RUN-GETTERInd — 1313 runs in 16 matches — Sachin Tendulkar SL —...
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The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
... it and I don’t want to harp on what I’ve been saying... Age is an issue only in India... Look at Sanath Jayasuriya, who is 39 and still an integral part of Sri Lanka’s one-day team... Muttiah Muralidharan is 36... Matthew Hayden, too, is going strong at the age of 36.Q If you’ve stopped thinking about one-day cricket, why don’t you announce retirement from that form? You’ve already...
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Indian Express (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
... head of the system that has produced unconventional cricketers such as Muttiah Muralitharan, Sanath Jayasuriya, Lasith Malinga and now Ajantha Mendis. And, as one takes a look at the display window of the academy, one finds that the supply-line isn’t going to stop any time soon. A Malinga lookalike, a leggie who delivers the ball from an awkward angle, and a pacer who till yesterday...
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Chinese Cut (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
The touring Indians are playing their first practice game of the tournament against Sri Lankan Board XI. The team has some of the players that Sri Lanka has already introduced in the International arena. Upul Tharanga , who had a decent start to his International career replacing Marvan Attapattu as a opener is playing. Sri Lanka had then found new opening partners for the aging veteran Sanath...
