A brilliant run a ball knock from Tharanga, silenced his critics who were planning on dropping him for this game.
Fantastic bolwing performance by Malinga..as Micheal Holding said "WOW"
If anyone could win it for the Lankans it was Jayasuriya but with rain in the horizon and the Duckworth and Lewis par total expand If anyone could win it for the Lankans it was Jayasuriya but with rain in the horizon and the Duckworth and Lewis par total expanding beyond reach even the great Sanath succumbed.
"England were defeated not only by Sri Lanka. They were beaten by a plan of attack beyond their imaginations, and never dreamt about in their own "play-the-percentages" philosophy. As Mike Atherton conceded afterwards, Sri Lanka have suddenly be- come the foremost exponents of a new approach to one-day cricket, one which turns the conventional English version on its head. Their batsmen opt for vertical take-off in the first 15 overs, not the last 15, and only then do they throttle back. It seems to be a spectacular way to fly."
This was Jayasuriya in World Cup 1996 mode. Cutting and pulling clinically, he also clipped a couple of early sixes off his legs off Syed Rasel. The Bangladesh opening bowlers wasted the new ball, obliging Habibul Bashar to introduce spin after ten overs but, unwisely, he did not delay the second power play. Without sufficient boundary protection, Abdur Razzak had 26 taken off his first two overs, Jayasuriya twice hitting him for six to race to fifty off 43 balls. Courtesy: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/cricket/article1550958.ece
Some of the breathtaking batting records are with this Master Blaster from Matara. He holds the record for the fastest fifty in One Day Internationals, a pulverizing half century coming in just 16 balls off a Pakistani attack at Padang, Singapore. He also held the record for the fastest hundred in ODIs which was broken by another bludgeoning batsman Shahid Afridi. Jayasuriya also holds the records for the most number of sixes in ODI cricket and the Fastest 50 in 20 Twenty cricket.
He holds the world's second highest ODI score, a blazing 189 runs against India. India lost the match by a landslide, 245 runs, which as of February 2007, is the second highest margin of defeat by runs in a One-Day International match. As of February 2007 he held the four highest individual scores by a Sri Lankan, and seven of the top nine.
The Kolkata rain ruined Sanath Jayasuriya's parade as the opening game of India's four-match one-day series against Sri Lanka was abandoned after torrential rain at the Eden Gardens. Having been sent in to bat by Rahul Dravid, Sri Lanka had made 102 for 3 from 18.2 overs when a heavy drizzle forced the players off and though the rain stopped, the outfield was far too marshy to risk further play. In the time available, Jayasuriya had raced to 63 from just 61 balls.
The Destructive Sanath Jayasuriya of Sri Lanka has taken apart the bowling of Andre Adams of NZ on every ocassion he has faced him.
The world seems to close in on a batsman who is so oppressed. Reason departs and is replaced by panic - ``Do I lead with pad or bat? I must not lunge with both together. For how long can I play a miss? I must not be shackled, I must attack this demon.'' So Butcher tried the chasse again but this time, fatally, he left his crease just a split second before Muralitharan released the ball. The bowler dragged the fizzer shorter by a foot, beat the batsman's desperate lurch and had him stumped by a country mile. Dreamy, old-fashioned stuff captured in one man's artistry. But Muralitharan is different again from what has gone before. He controls the ball from his fingers but uses an enormous flick of the wrist to increase the revolutions which make the ball spin so. He is not a 'drifter' in the way that, say, Fred Titmus was, or Robert Croft is now, someone who swings the ball towards the slips from an off-stump line and then trusts in spin to create the gap between bat and pad.
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