SL NT - The New Era

[rkpny]

What a finish to the tour! 4 teams finished on 12 points and we managed to stay up with a convincing win on Day 5. Given the ratings, I would say we did a good job with 3 wins.

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Ratings by round #
Team Name	1	2	3	4	5
South Africa	266,605	253,972	251,791	244,446	242,993
Ireland		256,893	257,003	247,811	240,790	238,232
Bangladesh	251,339	243,908	246,691	233,216	234,178
Kenya		260,095	249,178	246,253	241,026	236,776
Sri Lanka	253,450	246,588	241,652	239,217	233,283
Bermuda		252,118	250,540	242,949	242,138	232,140

Lesbirel was the star on day 5 with 72 runs and 3 wickets. Pieris played a great knock as well, scoring 65 in 65 balls coming in at 8 and farming the strike.

[rkpny]

Given the pitches, not much to talk about for our bats. These were the best bats -

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Name		Inns	Runs	HS	Ave	100	50
Neomal Irfahan	3	105	66	35	0	1
Craig Lesbirel	3	103	72	51.5	0	1
Silida Pieris	3	99	65	49.5	0	1

Best Bowlers

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Name			Wkts	Best	Ave	ER	SR	3WI	5WI
Craig Lesbirel		9	5-34	10.78	3.88	16.67	1	1
Ariyasiri David		7	3-18	13	3.19	24.43	1	0
Nishantha Mendis	5	2-22	19	4.16	27.4	0	0

Keepers

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Player		Catches Stumpings
Silida Pieris	   3	    4

I am surprised that Atapattu drew a blank!

MOMs

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G1: Craig Lesbirel	20* (30)	5-34
G1: Craig Lesbirel	72 (103)	3-49	1ro

Amazing tour for Craig Lesbirel! Got his highest OD score on Day 5 and then took 3 wickets and a Runout to keep us in Div 1!

[bura]

Good job there!

I see Lesbirel everywhere! Lesvo must feel like a proud parent!

[rkpny]

Thanks mate. Bad luck there - you guys were so close to promoting.

[TopManager]

Here is our 18 man squad for our first 20/20 tour of the season. The pitches are, Dry, Crumbling Slow...


Maithripala Ajireen
Chandika Atapattu
Ariyasiri David
Thomas El Toro
Niroshan Farook
Chandika Kaushal
Tilan Kobbekaduwa
Craig Lesbirel
Nishantha Mendis
Shane Newton
Jagath Nishantha
Silida Pieris
Gamini Sanjayan
Siripala Schaffter
Siripala Shirosh
Sadun Shrath
Vinayagamoorthi Thambawita
Silida Warnapura

Lets hope for some good wins!

[paulc]

Here is our 18 man squad for our first 20/20 tour of the season. The pitches are, Dry, Crumbling Slow...


Maithripala Ajireen
Chandika Atapattu
Ariyasiri David
Thomas El Toro
Niroshan Farook
Chandika Kaushal
Tilan Kobbekaduwa
Craig Lesbirel
Nishantha Mendis
Shane Newton
Jagath Nishantha
Silida Pieris
Gamini Sanjayan
Siripala Schaffter
Siripala Shirosh
Sadun Shrath
Vinayagamoorthi Thambawita
Silida Warnapura

Lets hope for some good wins!

not much luck it seems - horrible to go down after a 1 wicket loss.
Hopefully we won't be following you with the u20s...

[rkpny]

Lets hope for some good wins!

not much luck it seems - horrible to go down after a 1 wicket loss.
Hopefully we won't be following you with the u20s...

Horrible tour. Don't really want to recap that one
Lots to think about before the WC. Let's hope you have better luck with the U20s

[rkpny]

Here is the squad for the 2nd NOD 1 Tour -

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Player				Age	Role	Wage 	Rating 	Manager		Caps
Neomal Irfahan			27.09	Bat	$23,274	66,569	Pompernickle	10
Chandika Kaushal  		29.03	Bat	$22,208	66,838	Wolfpack	7
Tilan Kobbekaduwa  		29.03	Bat	$19,432	67,222	KnightWing	6
Gamini Sanjayan  		29.04	Bat	$21,640	66,734	johanx		10
Siripala Schaffter  		30.09	Bat	$25,825	66,835	sheikh03	21
Vinayagamoorthi Thambawita  	31.02	Bat	$30,000	66,895	johanx		32
Silida Warnapura  		29.07	Bat	$21,110	66,447	*		4
							
Asanta Gajanayake*  		27.07	WK	$22,110	74,298	Paul0774	0
Silida Pieris			30.02	WK	$28,500	80,660	Pompernickle	22
							
Maithripala Ajireen 		26.08	LWS	$19,174	57,855	Cynic		6
Thomas El Toro  		26.02	RFS	$24,257	58,494	soundscomplex	9
Craig Lesbirel  		29.04	RFS/AR	$16,286	67,137	lesvosace	12
Athaunda Luvis*  		28.09	RWS	$21,251	58,804	Bustergut	0
Sadun Shrath  			30.14	RWS	$25,468	63,841	tommyw40	19
							
Niroshan Farook  		30.09	LFM	$22,262	65,866	Marvellous	11
Sujeewa Makkin Salih  		31.09	RM	$27,952	69,894	johanx		5
Jagath Nishantha  		29.08	RF	$20,254	69,269	amcgrath1uk	10
Dayasiri Wijesiriwardene  	30.07	RFM/AR	$18,146	69,959	Josh27		7

Gajanayake and Luvis make their debuts (replacing Atapattu and David).
This could be the last NOD tour for some of the oldies.

Pitches are Dry, Dry, Crumbling, Sticky, Sticky.
Here hoping for a better result than the T20 tour!

[rkpny]

Great start to the tour with a 86 run win.

Salih was the start with the ball today. (5/19 in 10)
Wije (68*), Kaushal (40) and Pieris (43) all chipped in with the bat.

Up next - Kenya on Dry/Cloudy

[rkpny]

Not so good second game. Not a bad score, but none of the bowlers seems to get going.

Next game against Bangladesh on Crumbling/Sunny

[rkpny]

Disappointing tour again. It is probably time to do some house cleaning.

[rkpny]

Crowdsourcing time! I want to hear your opinion on bowling choices. Our pitches are Crumbling, Uneven, Green, Slow, Hard.

What would be your breakdown of bowling types?
2 ARs (Lesbirel is one. Dayasiri Wijesiriwardene (RFM)/Ranjit Bowen (RM)/Angelo Mathews (RM) for the other)
7 more bowlers to pick

[Angolvagyok]

Crowdsourcing time! I want to hear your opinion on bowling choices. Our pitches are Crumbling, Uneven, Green, Slow, Hard.

What would be your breakdown of bowling types?
2 ARs (Lesbirel is one. Dayasiri Wijesiriwardene (RFM)/Ranjit Bowen (RM)/Angelo Mathews (RM) for the other)
7 more bowlers to pick

3x spin 4 x seam(3xFM/F, 1xM)

Probably going with 3 spinners on the crumbling and slow, one on each of the others.

Take one of the M ARs, play both Ms on the green and slow to have pacers fit for the game on hard.

Will leave you with 2 spinners on hard though, not sure how you feel about that.

[rkpny]

Crowdsourcing time! I want to hear your opinion on bowling choices. Our pitches are Crumbling, Uneven, Green, Slow, Hard.

What would be your breakdown of bowling types?
2 ARs (Lesbirel is one. Dayasiri Wijesiriwardene (RFM)/Ranjit Bowen (RM)/Angelo Mathews (RM) for the other)
7 more bowlers to pick

3x spin 4 x seam(3xFM/F, 1xM)

Probably going with 3 spinners on the crumbling and slow, one on each of the others.

Take one of the M ARs, play both Ms on the green and slow to have pacers fit for the game on hard.

Will leave you with 2 spinners on hard though, not sure how you feel about that.

Thanks for the response. 2 spinners on day 5 should be ok. Maybe we should take 3 and 6 and play 3,1,1,2,1 ?
Wish Green and Slow were not back to back. Makes it hard to manage

[rkpny]

Good start to the T20 WC with a 5 run win against UAE on Crumbling. Good bowling from all the spinners ensured we got the win despite being outrated 11K.

Next match is against Bermuda on Uneven/Sunny