fecking hell 74 off 54. This games fecking ridiculous!
Aus v India v Sri Lanka ODI and T20
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One of the best ODI innings of all time by Kohli here. Ridiculous batting
What the feck happened there?
Watched the last 10 overs in Office conference room.. heh.. hilarious seeing Malinga getting raped
Malinga was annihiliated. Been a long time I saw someone getting battered like this, made it even more sweeter that it was the world's best death bowler.
Virat Kohli is an absolutely ridiculous batsmen.
Virat Kohli is an absolutely ridiculous batsmen.
Wow. Wow. That is all.
So India finally found a pitch in Australia to there liking, Hobart of all places
Betting scandal. Sorry but that was bullshit.
Crazy innings by Virat Kohli.. Started quite slowly but went beserk after he got his 50. The hammering Malinga got was unbelievable.
seems a bit too unbelievable if you ask me.
Absolute road of pitches down at Hobart though. No wonder they tend not to play there so much.
Absolute road of pitches down at Hobart though. No wonder they tend not to play there so much.
Its sad everytime there's an extraordinary result in cricket people think its fixed.
If they wanted to fix this game, surely they'd have made it more low scoring so things were easier to control. It would have taken some monumental planning to fix this game. How can the Sri Lankans fix it so that Kohli times every ball to perfection?
It was a just a terribly flat pitch, which both sides found extremely easy to bat on. In hindsight, batting first isn't ideal since you have no clue what a par score would be.
If they wanted to fix this game, surely they'd have made it more low scoring so things were easier to control. It would have taken some monumental planning to fix this game. How can the Sri Lankans fix it so that Kohli times every ball to perfection?
It was a just a terribly flat pitch, which both sides found extremely easy to bat on. In hindsight, batting first isn't ideal since you have no clue what a par score would be.
Thing is, the odds on an Indian win must have been huge at the start of their batting innings. 320 is a massive score to chase considering the form of the Indians this summer.
As flat as that pitch was, there is no way in hell it was a 400+ wicket which is exactly what India could have achieved.
Obviously there are those insane performances, but nothing at all this summer has shown that India had anything like that in them.
I'm not saying trying to say it's not possible, but it certainly raises eyebrows like the Pakistan v Australia game did a few years back.
However it was epic non the less and massively entertaining
On another forum. A picture of the wicket
As flat as that pitch was, there is no way in hell it was a 400+ wicket which is exactly what India could have achieved.
Obviously there are those insane performances, but nothing at all this summer has shown that India had anything like that in them.
I'm not saying trying to say it's not possible, but it certainly raises eyebrows like the Pakistan v Australia game did a few years back.
However it was epic non the less and massively entertaining
On another forum. A picture of the wicket
The Sri Lanka team has not been paid for over a year. Their board is broke. The Indian team has less incentive to rig matches as they are handsomely rewarded - there is no need for them to do it.
Why not? It was as true a pitch as you'd ever see in that second innings.
The ground was small(ish) and the pitch was flat. Oh and Indian team won't need to fix any matches, every single one of them is a on great contract plus the IPL Fees plus the advertisement fees. Plus the risk is too high as their careers are over even if they're found guilty of little match fixing.
Oh and I dunno why I'm having this argument, if a non-asian team would've won it there would've been no questions of match fixing on this match.
Oh and I dunno why I'm having this argument, if a non-asian team would've won it there would've been no questions of match fixing on this match.
Oh and Virat Kohli, would it be too early to say that he's a world class ODI player right now. His century in the tests filled me with great hope, though!
Kohli's ODI record is great, even did well in SA on their bouncy tracks. He will definitely get into a world 11 for ODIs.
Kohli scored 44 runs off 15 balls from Malinga. 8 fours and Six.
See that is a significant underlying factor. India have no reason to rig it, but Sri Lanka certainly do. Some of the fielding and bowling was atrocious tonight. That doesn't take away from the performance Kohli dished out.
The Sri Lanka ministry has just released funds to pay the salary of SL's cricket players
Sri Lanka says secures funds to pay players - Rediff.com Cricket
Oh and btw out of the Sri Lankan Players in their XI
Dilshan, Sangakarra, Matthews, Malinga, Perrera(basically the core of Lanka Team) are on fat IPL Contracts.
The rest of them Kulasakera, Maharoof, Chandimal has been recently bought or have played in the IPL.
Sri Lanka says secures funds to pay players - Rediff.com Cricket
Oh and btw out of the Sri Lankan Players in their XI
Dilshan, Sangakarra, Matthews, Malinga, Perrera(basically the core of Lanka Team) are on fat IPL Contracts.
The rest of them Kulasakera, Maharoof, Chandimal has been recently bought or have played in the IPL.
There's no real logic to these things. Greed and stupidity exist everywhere. The likes of Jadeja and Azhar were handsomely paid and still succumbed to it. The IPL is one of the richest sporting events around and regularly deals with allegations of match fixing. You're never going to enjoy the game if you go around thinking every result is fixed.
Not as if the Pakistan players weren't earning well in the IPL either.
Anyway i'm not definitively saying that Sri Lank threw the game, just that it was a bit easier then it should have realistically been.
Err Pakistani players weren't allowed to play in the IPL after the first season. Amir wasn't ever given a contract.
Well feck me sideways and slap your mothers arse I didn't know that.
That securing of funds does not mention future payments as that's still not been decided upon. Sri Lankan cricket board using disarray like the Pakistan board.
news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/8970473.stm
Sri lankan player and betting scandal. The player was Dilshan.
Sri lankan player and betting scandal. The player was Dilshan.
During Azhar's hay-day cricket even in India did not pay as much now. Match fees given at that time to Indian internationals was ample but considering their career was short lived, not a bonanza like it now. Only way to make mega money then was to get advertising contracts. You had people like Warne and Waugh giving away info to bookies for as much as 10k dollars.
Match fixing problem (if there is one) in IPL is due to some other issue all together. Very few players involved actually care about their respective "franchise" hence even with mega money some may be tempted to make even more at side.
At their peak, both were involved in advertisements and had other sources of income apart from their match fees. The IPL thing proves my point. There's no logic to it. Its an easy generalisation to only view the poorly played players with suspicion. The temptation to make that little bit more will always be there.
IPL thing does not prove your point at all, it is seen as a circus by the most. Given the short format of the game, most do not even have to break a sweat to play. In Intentional cricket if you do not perform, you will lose your spot very soon and generally there is much more intensity since people give a feck about winning or losing.
Temptation to make a little extra depends on risk and rewards. Intentionality cricket is monitored much more strictly than IPL and for someone getting 1m dollars plus for 6 weeks an year, the risk of getting caught match fixing and losing that contract as well along with his career is way too high compared to any amount of money he may gain by fixing. Indian and other top players are swimming in money now and it makes zero sense for them to risk that for any side money from fixing. That was not the case for Azhar and Jadeja at all. In fact I won't be surprised if Jadeja has earned more now as a cricket pundit with news channel than he did while playing.
Heh.
Suspicions of match fixing only on the Asian teams? Sad.
Suspicions of match fixing only on the Asian teams? Sad.
Any website I could watch the highlights of the India-Sri Lanka game?
Fixing to score 321 runs? 
Some of you need to look at yourselves again...
Kohli, one word - AMAZING!
Some of you need to look at yourselves again...Kohli, one word - AMAZING!
I have always wondered if there was anytime when it was proved that the result of a cricket match was fixed.
For me, its almost impossible to do it unless u fix half the players atleast on both sides; and even then you could not be sure.
Spot fixing, team news, pitch details, batting order and so on and so forth can be fixed easily but fixing a match to guarantee India chase down 320 in less than 40 overs is impossible.
For me, its almost impossible to do it unless u fix half the players atleast on both sides; and even then you could not be sure.
Spot fixing, team news, pitch details, batting order and so on and so forth can be fixed easily but fixing a match to guarantee India chase down 320 in less than 40 overs is impossible.
I agree.
I dont remember eyebrows raised when SA chased 420 against the aussies even though, just like the Indians & Pakistani's, the South Africans & Aussies have been implicated in match fixing.
Oh because they were the mighty Aussies. Even if Shane Warne and Co has been accused of giving information to the bookie, the aussies are always innocent. fecking pathetic this thread is.
The only person that made this about Asian teams, are the ones taking offense. The context of Sri Lanka is that they're a broke cricket board who can barely pay their players. And regardless of how much the players are on in the IPL, that won't stop them. In the same guise it didn't stop Mark Waugh or Shane Warne when they were on handsome ACB contracts in the 90's.
Wrong, it was you who did that. I'd recommend putting your silly biases aside.
Where did I ever imply that only Asian teams match fix?
By raising suspicion through your posts because the result was 'hard to believe' and because the Sri Lankan board is apparently not paying their players. And then going on to say that it doesn't matter if you're paid well, you'll still do it. All based on a 'feeling'.