Originally Posted by howard h:
“When Sri Lanka were fresh to the test match scene, they had just the two forms of cricket to deal with, and IIRC they won the World Cup before becoming a solid Test side (could be wrong, please correct).
Bangladesh have now three forms to cope with, with different styles of play etc, and I'm wondering if they shouldn't decide to put all their resources into one form (test or 20/20) and try to be good at that? same problem for Afghanistan too, should they ever get Test status.”
“When Sri Lanka were fresh to the test match scene, they had just the two forms of cricket to deal with, and IIRC they won the World Cup before becoming a solid Test side (could be wrong, please correct).
Bangladesh have now three forms to cope with, with different styles of play etc, and I'm wondering if they shouldn't decide to put all their resources into one form (test or 20/20) and try to be good at that? same problem for Afghanistan too, should they ever get Test status.”
Yep, Jayusariya changed the one day game in that tournament,




I remember SL's opening bowler, a huge lad called "John" just lumbering to the crease bowling to Fowler at Lord's, and me thinking "Fowler's got an easy 250 here if he wants" and he got 25
