Veterans Sanath Jayasuriya and Chaminda Vaas were selected for the 30 member squad to be prepared for the World Cup. The only uncapped player in the squad is Fast Bowler Nuwan Pradeep.
1. T.M Dilshan
2. Upul Tharanga
3. Dinesh Chandimal
4. Tharanga Paranavithana
5. Lahiru Thirimanna
6. Sanath Jayasuriya
7. Mahela Jayawardena
8. Thilan Samaraweera
9. Kumar Sangakkara
10. Thilina Kandamby
11. Chamara Silva
12. Chamara Kapugedara
13. Angelo Mathews
14. Tissara Perera
15. F. Maharoof
16. Jeewan Mendis
17. Muttiah Muralitharan
18. Suraj Randiv
19. Rangana Hearth
20. Malinga Bandara
21. Lasith Malinga
22. Ajantha Mendis
23. Nuwan Kulasekera
24. Dilhara Fernando
25. Suranga Lakmal
26. Dhammika Prasad
27. Chaminda Vaas
28. Chanaka Welagedara
29. Nuwan Pradeep
30. Thilan Thushara
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Dont include vass & sanath to team
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Chaminda Vaas is in a great form now.
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openig bats man mahela & dilshan
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To maintain consistency & to win the WC , we need young batsmen of solid technique & physically strong tall bowlers as it happens with other teams like England,India & South Africa. Batsmen of half technique ( who find it difficult to play the ball all along the ground when it is really needed) & bowlers of small & weak physique should be removed from all National sides . Considering performance & those who have maintained consistency from their young schooldays, the best squad to play in this WC is :
1. Tharanga Paranawithana,
2. Lahiru Thirimanne
3. Dinesh Chandimal
4. Angelo Mathews (Skipper)
5. Dimuth Karunarathna
6. Kahusal Silva ( WK)
7.Umesh Karunarathna
8. SPrasanna
9. Sachithra Senanayake
10 Thisara Perera
11. Lasith Malinga
12 Dilhara Fernando
13 Ajantha Mendis
14 Thilan Samaraweera
15. Farvez Maharoof
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Angelo Perera is an equally good player like Dinesh Chandimal, should find a place in this squad. Only possibility is to replace him with veteran Samaraweera.
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How could these promising youngsters find places when the selectors are still messing around with under performing veterans & other ordinary players.
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This is My team
Upul Tharanga
TM Dilshan
Kumara Sangakkara
Mahela Jayawardena
Chamara Silva
Angelo Mathews
Tisara Perera
Suraj Randiv
Nuwan Kulasekara
Lasith Malinga
Muththaiah Muralidharan
Chaminda Vass
Dinesh Chandimal
Ajantha Mendis
Thilan Samaraweera
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1 tm dilshan 2 mahela jayawardana 3 kumara sangakkara 4 upul tharahga 5 angelo mathews 6 chamara kapugedara 7 lasith malinga 8 thisira perera 9 suraj randiv 10 nuwan kulasekara .11 mutthaiya muralidaran 12 chaminda vass 13 chamara silva 14 dihara fernendo 15 f maharoof
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Both Chamara, Dilhara, Maharoof and Tharanga not suit for Sri Lanka ODI squad in next WCup.
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1) Upul Tharanga
2) T M Dilshan
3) Kumar Sangakkara
4) Angelo Mathews
5) Mahela Jayawardena
6) Chamara Kapugedara
7) Thissara Perera
8) Chaminda Vaas
9) Lasith Malinga
10) Muttiah Muralitharan
11) Nuwan Kulasekera
12) Suraj Randiv
13) Dilhara Fernando
14)Charmara Silva
15)A.Mendis
this is 2011 wc winig teme
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1. samarawera
2. sanath
3. mahela
4. dlishan
5. sanga
6. perera
7. mathew
8. chandimal
9. kapu
10. perera
11. vass
12. maliga
13. frenando
14. murali
15. randiv
16. mendi
17. nuwan
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My Tea is
1.Dilshan
2.Upul
3.Sangakkara
4.Mahela
5.C.Silva
6.Anjelo
7.Tisara
8.Lasith
9.Murahlidaran
10.Randiv
11.C.Kapugedara
12.A.Mendis
13.N.Kulasekera
14.C.Vaas
15.T.Samaraveera
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My Team For 2011 Cricket World Cup
T.M Dilshan
Mahela Jayawardena
Kumar Sangakkara
Upul Tharanga
Chamara Silva
Sanath Jayasooriya
Angelo MAthews
Chaminda Vass
Muttiah Muralitharan
Lasith Malinga
Nuwan Kulasekara
Ajantha Mendis
Thisara Perera
Thilan Samaraweera
Chamara Kapuegdara
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I think Aravinda would select the following as his final 15.
1.Mahela Jayawardena
2.Tillekaratne Dilshan
3.Kumar Sangakkara
4.Upul Tharanga
5.Thilina Kandamby
6.Angelo Mathews
7.Thilan Samaraweera
8.Nuwan Kulasekera
9.Lasith Malinga
10.Muttiah Muralitharan
11.Ajantha Mendis
12. Chamara Kapugedara (12th man for the whole world cup/specialist batsman)
13. Suraj Randiv (reserve specialist off-spinner)
14.Sanath Jayasuriya (reserve specialist on all departments)
15.Dilhara Fernando (reserve specialist fast bowler)
Although there’s enough spinners I selected Suraj Randiv in the 15 as Aravinda also would have him. Also I went for experienced Sanath Jayasuriya instead of Jeevan Mendis:D
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1 T.M.Dilshan
2 Upul tharanga
3 Kumara Sangakkara
4 Mahela Jayawardana
5 Thilan Samaraweera/ Chamara Kapugedara
6 Angilo Mattives
7 Thisara Perera
8 Chaminda Vaas
9 lasith Malinga
10 Muralidaran
11 Randiv / Rangana Herath
12 Nuwan kulasekara
13 Chandimal
2011 world cup is very important for us as sri lankans. As it is in sub continent we have a lots of chance to win this. I think this is the best team as all of these members are at their well performance level. As asian games we shouldn’t want to just participate for that. Any how we need this world cup to our mother Sri Lanka.So guys with best performances at this stage should selected for final squad. Well balanced team with good captancy in above squad surly will bring what we need………. good luck for Sri Lankan team to bring another world cup to our motherland on2011 !
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My team 2011 WORLD CUP
01.Dilshan
02.Upul
03.Sanath
04.Kumara
05.Thilan
06.Mahela
07.Kandambi
08.Chamara
09.Angelo
11.Thisara
12.Nuwan
13.Lasith
14.murali
15.randive
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My Team is,
1. T.M Dilshan
2. Upul Tharanga
3. Dinesh Chandimal
4. Sanath Jayasuriya
5. Mahela Jayawardena
6. Chaminda Vaas
7. Kumar Sangakkara (C)
8. Nuwan Kulasekera
9. Chamara Kapugedara
10. Angelo Mathews
11. Tissara Perera
12. Muttiah Muralitharan
13. Suraj Randiv
14. Lasith Malinga
15. Ajantha Mendis
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winning team and order on my opinion
1Mahela
2Dilshan
3Thisara
4Sanga
5Chamara silva
6Angello
7Kapugedara
8Randiv
9Kulasekara
10Malinga
11 Murali
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1) T.M Dilshan ,2) Upul Tharanga, 3) Dinesh Chandimal / Jayasuriya 4)Chamara Kapugedara , 5) Mahela Jayawardena , 6)Thilan Samaraweera ,7)Kumar Sangakkara , 8)Angelo, Mathews , 9)Tissara Perera, 10)Muttiah Muralitharan, 11)Suraj Randiv / Ajantha Mendis , 12) Lasith Malinga , 13) Nuwan Kulasekera ,14) Dilhara Fernando, 15)Chaminda Vaas
my 15 man squad.
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what are the dates for the postponed WI series? Is it canceled?. pls publish this post and give us an answer.
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As my preference and recent performance of the cricketers, the sri lankan world cup 15 member squad should be as follows;
1) Upul Tharanga
2) T M Dilshan
3) Kumar Sangakkara
4) Angelo Mathews
5) Mahela Jayawardena
6) Chamara Kapugedara
7) Thissara Perera
8) Chaminda Vaas
9) Rangana Herath
10) Lasith Malinga
11) Muttiah Muralitharan
12) Chamara Silva
13) Nuwan Kulasekera
14) Suraj Randiv
15) Thilan Samaraweera
As a Stand by Player due to an injury, i would be recommend :
16) Dinesh Chandimal
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As I mentioned the above squad i would like to adjust as the reserve player should be Thilan Samaraweera as a Batsman, because when we look at the 1996 world cup the Hashan Thilakarathne have done successfully when team in a pressure circumstance realted to falling wickets often.
But, addition to that i would like to add Ajantha Mendis as well. Becuase he has played well so far during recent Premier Limited Over Tournament Tier A. So we can utilize him as a specialised Bowler to the squad addition to Suraj Randiv. But in case, Ajantha Mendis should improve his fielding ability as well to give full strength to win matches.. Regarding the Spinners should play left and right combination of spinners to confuce the opposition batsmen.
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1 Dilshan
2 Upul Tharanga
3 Kumar Sangakkara
4 Mahela Jayawardena
5 Thilan Samaraweera
6 Chamara Kapugedara/Dinesh Chandimal
7 Anjelo Mathews
8 Nuwan Kulasekara/Chaminda vaas
9 Lasitha Malinga
10. Ajantha Mendis/Suraj Randiv
11. Muralitharan
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Look kapu get a hundred today. He should ceitainly in the squad as he is a player who can change the game for srilanka as he did on the ICC world T20 tournament in Wi last year.Squad should be
Dil,Mahela,Sanga,Samara,Anji,Kapu,Jeewan,Thisara,Kula,Randiv,Mali
Bench
Silva,Murali,Maharoof,Ajanta
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One can find 101 better young batsmen who have maintained consistency from their schooldays, than these inconsistent hot favorites of selectors like Kapu ,Chamara Silva, Sangakkara,Mahela & Jayasuriya.
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Yes winning the world cup is important but selector should think about SLC future too.. my point is that if selector select jayasauriya ahead of a performing youngster in the domestic competition ,what will happened to his confidence ?it’ll be totally destroyed,,it’s not good for the SL cricket next generation ..i mean SL have nothing to loose if we put a performing youngster in WC.no one will blame SL selectors .so i hope that selectors will go for a youngster instead of jayasuriya .
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vaas should join the main squad and put chandimal to the bench
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India will win the world cup
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Sri Lankan fans have been dumped in a hopeless situation, with all these same old wasted players.
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Dilshan
Mahela
Sangakkara (C & Wk)
Chandimal
Samaraweera
Mathews
Perera
Randiv
Kulasekara
Malinga
Murali
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1dilshan
2mahela
3 sanga
4 samraweera & kandamby
5 chandimal
6.thirimanna & tharanaga
7angelo mathew]s
8tissara perara
9 chamind vaas
10 murali & randiv
11 malinga & kulasekara
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see Premier Limited Over match sanath not form (27/12/2010). how he selected. foolish decission
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good to see kapu back in form in Premier Limited Over 2010/2011
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Even domestic cricket Kapu form in very rarely. He is useless for ODI for Sri Lanka.
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There were far better schoolboy cricketers ( Lahiru Peiris, Nilushan Nonis, Angelo Mathews, Ashan Priyanjan) than him when he was 1st selected to the National side for other reasons rather than his cricketing skills like several other ordinary cricketers who have represented the country for the reasons of timid behaviors & incompetency of selectors of the recent past.
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Eka “match” ekaka 50 k “score” kelate ‘form’ una kiyala kiyanna bai. Adumagane eka dhigata ‘innings’ 3 ne 4 ka wath 50 ehwa gahanna ohne. Kappuwala, Sangala, Mahelala, Chamaralala,…….1 ‘ining’ ekaka 50k ‘score’ kaloth eegawa ‘innings’ 3 nema ‘fail’, ehema gahala “WC” dhinanna bai !
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@Kavindha
CK Kapugedera 108
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Even domestic cricket Kapu is form in very rarely. In ODI he is useless for Sri Lanka.
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Sometimes I feel like you all are wasting your valuable time in selecting probable teams here, because the Selectors have other ideas. They don’t have any intention of winning this WC that is why they have included some players in this squad who are not good enough even for a club side with their present form. Even though the selectors try to ignore our promising youngsters, in order to provide opportunities to aging club cricketers, Bangladesh have already produced some 21 year olds who have been elected as the best Test Player(Saquib & Tamim) of the Year (2009,2010 respectivly) by The Wisden Cricketer. This is a clear indication of that we are going to get hammered by Countries like Bangladesh, Zimbabwe, Afghanistan,…at regular basis, (the same manner that our youth teams get beaten by young Bangladeshies.) in the near future. Despite Cricket is being a major factor that strengthens our economy the selfish & timid local media always highlight news related to ignorant politicians, other bogus stars & games not suited for Asians. It is always better to give more publicity to our young promising players ( economic Assets of this poor country) like , Angelo Perera, Sachithra Senanayake, S Prasnna, Dimuth Karunarthna, Wimanga perera, Umesh Karunarathna,Malida Pushpakumara, Ramesh Abeyruwan, Marlan Madusanka, Chathuranga Kumara…..(who aren’t included here in this squad) because the responsible people are very much ignorant of talented young cricketers in this Country. It is so unfortunate that the World has not seen the Best (highly talented) Cricketers of Sri Lanka’s of last 25 years, due to the incompetency of selectors. Only very few persons do know that quality players like Anura Tennakoone ,Roy Dias, Ranjan Madugalle, Roshan Mahanama, Hashan Thilakarathne & Marvan Attapathu were forced to retire prematurely because the Selectors of last 25 years have always prefered lusty hitters whose strokes were made to travel some distance before kissing the ground, which have always made them very inconsistent performers.
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The penultimate line of the above comment should be read as “whose majority of strokes make the ball to travel…”
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yes I agree with u.Hope Aravinda will do a good job than Demel
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No..No… both are same in most of time. That’s why Kapuwa, Tharanga, Samaraweera and Dilharaare still in the Sri Lankan ODI team. Aravinda always select Sangas favorities.
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1. TM Dilshan
2.U.Tharanga
3.K.Sangakkara
4.Mahela Jayawardana
5.Thilina kandambi / D. Chandimal
6.Angelo Mathews
7Rangana Herath / Suraj randiv/ Ajantha Mendis
8.Thissara Perera/ Jeevan mendis
9.Chaminda Vass / Nuwan kulasekara
10.Lasith Malinga
11.Muralidaran
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My selection:-
1. Upul Tharanga
2. T.M. Dilshan
3. Dinesh Chandimal
4. Kumar Sangakkara
5. Mahela Jayawardana
6. Angalo Mathews
7. Thisara Perera
8. Suraj Randiv
9. Nuwan Kulasekara
10. Lasith Malinga
11. Muthtaia Muralidharan
12. Sanath Jayasuriya
13. Chaminda Vaas
14. Thilan Samaraweera
15. Dilhara Fernando
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1.Dilshan
2.Tharanga(we can’t remove tharanga coz he performed really well recently)
3.Chandimal
4.sanga
5.Mahela
6.Angelo
7.Thissara
8.Randiv
9.Nuwan/vassy
10.Malinga
11.Murali
12.dilhara
13.Jeewan mendis
14.Rangana hearath
15.Ajantha mendis
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what do you mean by performed relly well???????????
Dilshan
Tharanga(we can’t remove tharanga he was so lucky recently)
Cha……….
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He performed well in Recent tour to India and australia.He made a hundred and so many 50s since his comeback.
what has sanath done in past year?He was played for a county and vassy did well than him with the bat.I saw the selected 11and tharanga is included in it.
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Tharanga has some what recovered from his weaknesses and that is the reason he has made some scores recently.It is unfair to say he was so lucky recently.We have to give him some credits on his performences.
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Yes he has performed well recently. He has scored 222 runs in 4 games of premier league tournament 2010/2011 with a Century and half century(Avg 55.50). But Sanath has scored only 72 runs in 3 matches (Avg 24.00)????????
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According To My Wish Sri Lankan Team 2011 World Cup Should Be,
1. Tillakarathne Dilshan
2. Upul Tharanga
3. Kumar Sangakkara
4. Mahela Jayawardane
5. Charmara Silva
6. Angelo Mathews
7. Thissara Perera
8. Nuwan Kulasekara
9. Ajantha Mendis
10. Lasith Malinga
11. Muttiah Muralidharan
12. Dinesh Chandimal
13. Thilina Kandamby
14. Chaminda Vaas
15. Rangana Herath
This selection is purely based on the performance and the cricketers who can win (give 100%) a world cup again for sri lanka.….
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i think you dont know cricket? jaya. chamara not in form????
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yeah good choice.Don’t think chandimal will play in this world cup.But he should play because he is among the best 11.I don’t think kapu or silva or thilan is among the best 11 too.But there is no problem if one from them selected.My 11,,,
1.Dilshan
2.Tharanga(we can’t remove tharanga coz he performed really well recently)
3.Chandimal
4.sanga
5.Mahela
6.Angelo
7.Thissara
8.Randiv
9.Nuwan/vassy
10.Malinga
11.Murali
12.dilhara
13.Jeewan mendis
14.Rangana hearath
15.Ajantha mendis
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What do you mean about performed really well ???
Yes…..Tharanga (we can’t remove tharanga because he is very lucky and one of the Sangas favorites recently)
Dilhara is also same.
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My selection,
Main squad:
1. T.M Dilshan
2. Mahela Jayawardena
3. Upul Tharanga
4. Kumar Sangakkara
5. Lahiru Thirimanna
6. Angelo Mathews
7. Chamara Kapugedara
8. Tissara Perera
9. Suraj Randiv
10. Lasith Malinga
11. Muttiah Muralitharan
Bench:
12. Nuwan Kulasekera
13. Jeewan Mendis
14. Dilhara Fernando
15. Ajantha Mendis
This selection is purely based on the performance and the cricketers who can win (give 100%) a world cup again for sri lanka.….
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Nice squad bro…. :) spot on………
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what hpn 2 chandimal..??
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Oops.. my mistake… it should be Dinesh Chandimal not Lahiru Thirimanna… sorry!!
Main squad:
1. T.M Dilshan
2. Mahela Jayawardena
3. Upul Tharanga
4. Kumar Sangakkara
5. Dinesh Chandimal
6. Angelo Mathews
7. Chamara Kapugedara
8. Tissara Perera
9. Suraj Randiv
10. Lasith Malinga
11. Muttiah Muralitharan
Bench:
12. Nuwan Kulasekera
13. Jeewan Mendis
14. Dilhara Fernando
15. Ajantha Mendis
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SL never win next WCup withplayers like Kapuwa, Tharanga, Dilhara. Ajantha mendis also not in good form recently.
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What happen to Vass. He performed well in club matches in UK.
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ACCORDING TO MY WISH SRI LANKAN TEAM 2011 WORLDCUP SHOULD BE
1 TM.DILSHAN
2 SANATH JAYASURIYA / UPUL THARANGA
3 KUMAR SANGAKKARA
4 MAHELA JAYAWARDENE
5 ANGELO MATHEWS
6 DINESH CHANDIMAL
7 TISSARA PERERA
8 CHAMINDA VAAS
9 NUWAN KULASEAKARA
10 LASITH MALINGA
11 MUTTAIH MURALIDARAN
WE CAN USE JAYASURIYA OR THARANGA AS THE OPENING PARTNER OF DILSHAN. IF WE USE SANA ,THERE IS A ADVANTAGE BECAUSE HE IS ALL ROUNDER.IN THE MIDDLE ORDER WE CAN SUBSTITIUTE CHAMARA SILVA FOR CHANDIMAL.IF MURALI BEING UNSUCCESFUL IN FIRST 2 OR 3 MATCHES WE CAN GIVE OPPORUNITY TO SURAJ RANDIV
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Good one.But tharanga should open with dilshan.yeah this is a good choice
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chamdimal for jayasooriya
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If we select the most ideal team from this given squad with regard to their perfomances, that should be read as:
1. T.M Dilshan 15. Thilina Kandamby
2. Tharanga Paranavithana
3. Angelo Mathews ( Skipper)
4. Dinesh Chandimal( Wicket Keeper)
5. Lahiru Thirimanna
6. Thilan Samaraweera
7. Jeewan Mendis
8. Rangana Hearth 12. M Muralitharan
9. Ajantha Mendis
10. Dilhara Fernando 13. Tissara Perera
11. Lasith Malinga 14. Thilan Thushara
We badly need a quality left-arm leg spinner in our team that is why I prefer Herath to murali. Ajantha , Malinga & Dilhara they all are capable of dislodging any top class batsman in no time. Even batsman like Tendulkar has very high regard for these 3 bowlers in particular. All these batsmen selected here are capable of playing the ball along the ground at will.
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I think upul tharanga would be a better opening batsman than tharanga paranawithana.
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If I’m Mr.Aravinda De Silva, My final 15 would be;
As Openners (1,2)
1.T.M.Dilshan
2.U.Tharanga
3.S.Jayasuriya
As Middle Order Batsman (3,4,5)
4.K.Sangakkara
5.M.Jayawardena
6.T.Samaraweera
7.D.Chandimal
As All Rounders (6,7)
8.A.Mathews
9.T.Perera
10.C.Vaas
As Bowlers (8,9,10,11)
11.M.Muralidharan
12.A.Mendis
13.S.Randhiv
14.L.Malinga
15.N.Kulasekara
I think that D.Chandimal should be in the final 15 because he’s a talented & Fearless batsmen & with the ability to keep wickets.
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No jayasooriya please.
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1.dilshan
2.tharanga
3.sanga
4.mahela
5.thilan
6.angalo
7.murali
8.kule
9.mendis
10.lasith
11.vass
12.rangana
13.mirando
14.paranavitana
15.thisara
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There I mean Chamara Silva
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//PLEASE IGNORE MY PREVIOUS COMMENT//
I’ve great respect for both Mahela & Sangakkara as National heroes who have brought honor and wealth into this poor country of rogues & bogus stars, although I feel, there isn’t any meaning in allocating permanent places for them in the National ODI team any longer just because they score runs heavily in home Test matches offering 101 chances in the process. They have let the Country down very badly in many ODI tournaments ever since they have joined the Team. Their ODI Batting Averages in their 1st 35 ODIs were around 20 runs per innings, that itself shows that they are not good for ODIs even though they were always asked to bat at the most important batting positions of No3 & 4. The Country need at least 3 quality batsmen to maintain consistency throughout a tournament for that team to perform well in that particular tournament. If we are to be successful in the coming WC we need batsmen the class of Tendulkar, Haseem Amla,De Viliers,Karlis,…. who are very consistent in their approach to batting. The ODI average of a player tells a volume of what kind of a player that he is. Although we had 4 quality such batsmen in Aravinda,Hashan, Mahanama & Atthapattu (Latter didn’t play a single match in his 1st & last WCs) in our 1996 WC, now we have only 2 such quality batsmen in Samaraweera & Angelo in our established National Side. They too have become useless at present, in always sending them to bat very low down in the batting order. One cannot expect any special performances from Sangakkara & Mahela in their present form because even as youth in 2003 WC they were a complete flop. Yet in the recent past we have lost almost all ODI tournaments with all these greedy veterans and other favorite players of selectors in, if we had performed well it was totally due to our bowlers and young batsmen. I would like to remind here we have lost as many as 5 home series since 2007, once to England, 3 times to India & once to Pakistan. They have always struggled do well even in Zimbabwe and Bangladesh in a triangular (involving Zimbbabwe) in 2009. Going at very important positions in the batting order they have always made things difficult for batsmen to follow in trying to survive with risky stokes. If they were selected at the cost of young promising players the both should be sent to bat very low down in the batting order. To win a Tournament involving 7 innings, the batsmen selected should be able to score over 50 runs at least 5 times out of total 7 innings if that team to win that particular tournament.
Sanath failed in all important matches in the 1996 WC. As for Kaluwitharana he could not go beyond 30 mark in any of those 6 innings though people were made to believe they were the main actors of 1996 WC. This kind of players can be any help to win a tournament is very remote. It is very sad to note that same players who were chosen for all those disastrous tournaments of recent times are included in this 30 man squad in spite of their performances even in Domestic tournaments. It is a well known fact that every year 1 or 2 academically brilliant children get into the Universities scoring highest marks. The same manner one or two extremely talented children do come out from schools each year. It is the main duty of the knowledgeable selectors to pick them young like they do in other countries, Pakistan in particular, for the last Youth WC in NewZealnd, they have a selected young kid who was only 15 years at that time who became the 1st 3 best batsmen of that tournament, a thing our selectors of last 25 could not even think of. I strongly feel young players like Khausal Silva, Lahiru Thirimanne, Sachithra Senanayake, SPrasanna, Malinda Pushpakumara, Marlan Madusanka, Dimuth Karunarathne Dinesh Chandimal, Angelo Perera, Umesh Karunarathna, Bhanuka Rajapaksha Chathura Peiris should be strong contenders for the coming WC. It is always better to entertain young rather than rotten aging players and other favorites of selectors. .
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Please try to comprehend what I’ve written, before commenting. We consider here only his batting. There were far better left arm leg spinners & fielders who could not play a single match for the country because of this kind of greedy cricketers ( Whose success rate in his entire career has been 1 out of 5 innings played, at present Sanath’s success rate is nil) & incompetent selectors of last 15 years.
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I totally agree with you. You are realy Sri Lankan & best cricket lover in SL.
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I’ve great respect for both Mahela & Sangakkara as National heroes who have brought honor and wealth into this poor country of rogues & bogus stars, although I feel, there isn’t any meaning in allocating permanent places for them in the National ODI team anylonger just because they score runs heavily in home Test matches offering 101 chances in the process. They have let the Country down very badly in many ODI tournaments ever since they have joined the Team. Their ODI Batting Averages in their 1st 35 ODIs were around 20 runs per innings, that itself shows that they are not good for ODIs even though they were always asked to bat at the most important batting positions of No3 & 4. The Country need at least 3 quality batsmen to maintain consistency throughout a tournament for that team to perform well in that particular tournament. If we are to be successful in the coming WC we need batsmen the class of Tendulkar, Haseem Amla,De Viliers,Karlis,…. who are very consistent in their approach to batting. The ODI average of a player tells a volume of what kind of a player that he is. Although we had 4 quality such batsmen in Aravinda,Hashan, Mahanama & Atthapattu (Latter didn’t play a single match in his 1st & last WCs) in our 1996 WC, now we have only 2 such quality batsmen in Samaraweera & Angelo in our established National Side. They too have become useless at present, in always sending them to bat very low down in the batting order. One cannot expect any special performances from Sangakkara & Mahela in their present form because even as youth in 2003 WC they were a complete flop. Yet in the recent past we have lost almost all ODI tournaments with all these greedy veterans and other favorite players of selectors in, if we had performed well it was totally due to our bowlers and young batsmen. I would like to remind here we have lost as many as 5 home series since 2007, once to England, 3 times to India & once to Pakistan. They have always struggled do well even in Zimbabwe and Bangladesh in a triangular (involving Zimbbabwe) in 2009. Going at very important positions in the batting order they have always made things difficult for batsmen to follow in trying to survive with risky stokes. If they were selected at the cost of young promising players the both should be sent to bat very low down in the batting order. To win a Tournament involving 7 innings, the batsmen selected should be able to score over 50 runs at least 5 times out of total 7 innings if that team to win that particular tournament.
Sanath failed in all important matches in the 1996 WC. As for Kaluwitharana he could not go beyond 30 mark in any of those 6 innings though people were made to believe they were the main actors of 1996 WC. This kind of players can be any help to win a tournament is very remote. It is same with Mahela & Sangakkara, as we all know their performances It was so pathetic to describe the performances of our senior batsmen (& other favorites of selectors) It is very sad to note that same players who were chosen for all those disastrous tournaments of recent times are included in this 30 man squad in spite of their performances even in Domestic tournaments. It is a well known fact that every year 1 or 2 academically brilliant children get into the Universities scoring highest marks. The same manner one or two extremely talented children do come out from schools each year. It is the main duty of the knowledgeable selectors to pick them young like they do in other countries, Pakistan in particular, for the last Youth WC in NewZealnd, they have a selected young kid who was only 15 years at that time who became the 1st 3 best batsmen of that tournament, a thing our selectors of last 25 could not even think of. I strongly feel young players like Khausal Silva, Lahiru Thirimanne, Sachithra Senanayake, SPrasanna, Malinda Pushpakumara, Marlan Madusanka, Dimuth Karunarathne Dinesh Chandimal, Angelo Perera, Umesh Karunarathna, Bhanuka Rajapaksha Chathura Peiris should be strong contenders for the coming WC. It is always better to entertain young rather than rotten aging players and other favorites of selectors.
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1 Dilshan
2 Upul Tharanga
3 Kumar Sangakkara
4 Mahela Jayawardena
5 chamara silwa
6 samaraweera/Dinesh Chandimal
7 Anjelo Mathews
8 Nuwan Kulasekara/Chaminda vaas
9 Lasitha Malinga
10. Ajantha Mendis/Suraj Randiv
11. Muralitharan
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