Update on Mahela and Sanga.

Update on Mahela and Sanga.

I pity these two players now having decided to play till the world cup is over in 2015.

They will have a bad taste in their mouth at the end of their cricketing saga.

My wishful thinking was that they could have retired before the tournament but I still respect their enthusiasm and sacrifice to cricket.

My gut feeling is that they will burn out even (if that has not happened already) before the tournament commences.

It is already seen in Dilshan.

Then we can see the real Sri-Lankan cricket talent without the old guard worst than Zimbabwe and Bangladesh.

Sri-Lankan cricket management run by politicians, wheeler dealers in business and old cricketing cronies (I think they wet their pants when a female Indian Cricket Board secretary gives them  an order to play in India by their own command; it is given by either by a telephone call or by an email) are ruining our old talents, while young ones who represent Sri-Lankan cricket is a collection of "rag tag of players".

In any are case I do not watch cricket now and won't revise my predictions already made.

I hope either South Africa or West Indies could lift the cup, this time round (unless of course, they do a silly mistake in a vital match).

 

Below is a reproduction.

I hope above blog post done in only ten minutes before I went to sleep needed, another 25 minutes of editing and looking for typos.

I was I was listening to BBC radio and listening to cricket and I had to give up editing and went down to my son's room and peo TV was blocked for (cricket from UK) cricket and then I had to make my wife to move out to answer a call to get to the digital TV (Capture card) and tune into Eye Channel and was able see to Mahela's mastery.

Take my word, they are the modern version of Rohan Kanhaie and Kallicherran of yesteryear West Indies. 
This I said long time ago when they were young.

I will not miss a match when Mahela is on song.

Sanga should learn a lesson or two from Mahela.

West Indies cricketers who are young and never seen the two classy players mentioned above should watch Mahela and Sanga play limited over games and believe that they can produce high class players (their problem is batting once Lara was gone).


The differences in the above two players as opposed to Sri-Lankan players were they always played like that every time they came to the crease, limited or not.

I never missed them when they came to Colombo on short visits (including great Westly Hall, Greenich and Griffith and I think Lance Gibbs the spinner).

Sorbers I have not seen playing live.

Vivian Richard is a class of his own and there is nobody currently to match him.
 
Brian Lara is the epitome of style.
 
There is a documentary on West Indian cricket of yesteryear produced by a cricket loving Englishman. 
 

Everybody who is a cricket lover should see that documentary including West Indians.

Without them cricket will be dead the way Indians cronies (not players) not West Indian who are marketing cricket like tooth paste and soap opera (Bollywood style).

I hope west Indies stop fighting and play gentleman cricket and beat India who has become too big for comfort for any cricket (IPL included.)

They actually gave Indian a wake up call and scare.

If not for Dravid, the Wall (a real mature cricketer of class, whom I like very much) I would be rubbing salt on their wounds.

Dravid was one player who was very badly treated by Indian Cricket Selectors, who thinks that any Indian who can play soft ball cricket can represent India.

Now that Kersten is gone like in Sri-lanka (political involvement) all the cronies will get in to ruin Indian Cricket Board and ICC.

On a finer note my daughter, my wife and the Gon Bass (work supervisor) did not let me sleep even three hours at a stretch and woke me up three times on three different occasions in spite of the fact it was a Saturday.

My dog was the only considerate soul who did not disturb my sleep but left a big poo in the living room to state emphatically, industrial action all right I need to go out and I am not a prisoner on hold, like an American prisoner in the Guatemala Bay.

 I had to do the cleaning.