Sri Lanka leveled the series in South Africa with a 208 runs victory on the fourth day of the second Test in Durban. Incidentally, it was their first Test win on the South African soil.
Sri Lanka set 450 to win and the hosts put up a lame display and thus setting the stage for a thriller in Cape Town next week. Only AB de Villiers (69) and Dale Steyn (43) – who put on 99 runs for the seventh wicket offered resistance.
For Sri Lanka, Rangana Herath did the star turn and took five wickets for 79 to seal Sri Lanka's first ever Test win in South Africa. This win is also the first test victory for Sri Lanka since the retirement of Muttiah Muralitharan.
Herath finished with match figures of nine for 128.
28/12/2011
Cricket’s new fangled myths
Glen Turner has written an excellent opinion piece questioning the wisdom of inculcating team culture in cricket.
He takes a dig at this emphasis on
"leading by example, role models, desired behaviours, opinion-shapers, trust and honesty, induction processes and so on. All this and more to get players job ready and in between times I suppose they can do some practice and play the odd game. I thought you only had to drink Speights to be the perfect man".
I believe he has it right and more than aiding in a cricketers development, these management theories has actually impaired it. For instance Greg Chappell's who appears to believe in the 'chaos theory' brought in some new fangled ideas and not only managed to shatter many a Indian cricketers morale but also managed to regress Indian cricket.
07/12/2011
Can Cricket Australia sack itself?
Cricket Australia (CA) has embarked on a mission impossible.
David Crawford, will present a report to the CA board recommending a nine-man independent commission replace the 14-man board of elected state delegates.
The nine members will be chosen as follows:
- Each state will nominate a board member with no state or club ties
- The six new delegates will then appoint three other independents with specific expertise
Undeniably, these recommendations have value. It remains to be seen whether CA can get the buy in from the state boards as earlier attempts failed because of the intransigence of the state boards.
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