India v Sri Lanka, 4th ODI, Kolkata, Dec 24

Does that mean you think the Indians will win this one and the series?

Eden Gardens is always special. This is one match I don't want to miss.....

Batman wrote:Eden Gardens is always special. This is one match I don't want to miss.....

And only last week you were saying you have no interest in ODI's

The difference a couple of wins makes.

Batman wrote:Eden Gardens is always special. This is one match I don't want to miss.....

couldn't get a ticket anyway
http://www.foxsports.com.au/story/0,8659,26524017-23212,00.html

SL scoring too quick so they switched the lights off?

Back to the match, sadly it looks like even Eden Gardens, a traditionally a helpful wickets for bowlers and one that always gave even contests for all, has been sacrificed at the altar of the notion of a batsman's paradise.

This business of chasing down huge scores regularly now is now becoming a bit of a boring habit isn't it?

Harbhajan Singh is turning missing catches into an absolute art-form. FFS, I could catch those when I was 8 years old!

The wicket had something in the first few overs, the Lankans couldn't hit anything. And then the normal fielding lapses, giving them lives, and they scored. Good thing Gambhir has turned awesome.

doremi wrote:Harbhajan Singh is turning missing catches into an absolute art-form. FFS, I could catch those when I was 8 years old!
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Harbhajan's grandmother could have caught that one.
SL's new Lokmal seems to think he bowls at 150 going by the aggression after delivery. A bit of a spaghetti Tarzan.

There used to be a time on C4 when an India one day game drew 50 pages of live interest and now we have a situation where a thread even struggles for even 5 posts. What does it say? The fact that Indian fans no longer get excited about the amount of JAMODIs we see anymore.These days the average match thread struggles to even cross 5 pages.....

On a positive note, India have now won five bilateral ODI series in a row against Sri Lanka -- 6-1 in India in 2005-06, 2-1 in India in 2006-07, 3-2 in Sri Lanka in 2008-09, 4-1 in Sri Lanka in 2008-09 and 3-1 in India in 2009-10 with a game to go. Looks like India has broken that psychological stranglehold that the Lankan team with Jayasurya at top had some years back between 1996 - 2005.

Also interesting could be the fact that the Delhi curator has promised a 'sporting' wicket. The wicket has been re-laid since the last Aus one dayer and has some sprinkling of a grass. He has maintained that anything above 250 would be a winning score. This could get interesting!

Batman wrote:There used to be a time on C4 when an India one day game drew 50 pages of live interest and now we have a situation where a thread even struggles for even 5 posts. What does it say? The fact that Indian fans no longer get excited about the amount of JAMODIs we see anymore.These days the average match thread struggles to even cross 5 pages.....

Can't speak for others, but I no longer GAF.

I'd rather watch Zimbabwe and Bangladesh play a drawn Test than an India in the ODI finals of anything but a WC , and I'm not kidding.