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West Indies vs Sri Lanka schedule

T20I series
March 3, 5 and 7 (Coolidge Cricket Ground)

ODI series
March 10, 12 and 14 (Sir Vivian Richards Stadium)

Two-day warm-up match
March 17-18 (Coolidge Cricket Ground)

Test series
March 21-25, March 29-April 2 (Sir Vivian Richards Stadium)

What an opening game!

Danajaya takes a hat-trick, then the next over he gets hit for six sixes by Kieron Pollard.

Gamechanger of the match award goes to Dwayne Bravo for his diligent knock of 4 off 17 balls

It seems to have been quite an interesting match....

Sri Lanka 131-9

Nissanka 39 from 34
Dickwella 33 from 29

Obed McCoy 2-25

West Indies 134-6 with seven overs to spare.

Pollard 38 from 11
Holder 29 not out from 24 balls

Akila 3-62
Hasaranga 3-12

The spinners weaved a web around the West Indies batsmen....

Sri Lanka 160-6

Gunathilaka 56 from 42
Nissannka 37 from 23

Big Bravo 2-25

WIndies 117 all out

McCoy 23

Sandakan 3-10
Hasaranga 3-17
Chameera 2-26

The West Indies won the decider by three wickets with one over to spare....

Sri Lanka 131-4

Chandimal 54 not out from 46
Bandara 44 not out from 35

Allen 1-13
Sinclair 1-19

Windies 134-7

Simmons 26
Allen 21 not out

Sandakan 3-29

Wow - that run out obstructing the field today - looked very harsh to me. He wasn't in any danger of being run out anyway - can't believe the WI even appealed!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Bm01N1Tgy ... e=youtu.be

That is such a tough call from the Umpire and like you red im not sure why WI appealed.

Not a good look for me.

I was not impressed by the appeal, but even less impressed by the decision of the third umpire, who had several replays to reverse the decision....

Sri Lanka 232 all out

Gunathilaka 55
Karu 52
Bandara 50

Mohammed 2-12
Holder 2-39

West Indies win by eight wins with three overs to spare.

Hope 110
Lewis 65

Chameera 2-50

I think the on field umpires soft decision was out, from which there was not enough evidence to over rule.

Alviro Patterson wrote:What an opening game!

Danajaya takes a hat-trick, then the next over he gets hit for six sixes by Kieron Pollard

I would love to see the exact measurement of the boundaries, because this Coolidge Ground looks smaller than my under-12 schoolboy level venues we played at, so small in fact I debate if it can even meet minimum requirements for a venue (in fact, the ground was only ever a hosting venue for cricket matches funded by a man who get 110 years for fraud, and now I believe is being used because of Covid, so are the regulations just being ignored to facilitate this series?).

It was only a few weeks ago some Hetmyer slog went viral at the same venue, because he hit it outside the ground into someone house meaning the fielder had to go and knock for the ball back.... but I have a feeling rather than it being a noteworthy massive hit, if you extended the boundary to be like the SCG, the house in question would be somewhere behind the inner ring.

Not sure many of those sixes Pollard hit would clear even a medium size boundary. One of them, his bat it pointed directly upwards and he sort of slices across the ball..... beat the boundary by a mile, despite the fact he got pretty much nothing on it.

sussexpob wrote:

Alviro Patterson wrote:What an opening game!

Danajaya takes a hat-trick, then the next over he gets hit for six sixes by Kieron Pollard

I would love to see the exact measurement of the boundaries, because this Coolidge Ground looks smaller than my under-12 schoolboy level venues we played at, so small in fact I debate if it can even meet minimum requirements for a venue (in fact, the ground was only ever a hosting venue for cricket matches funded by a man who get 110 years for fraud, and now I believe is being used because of Covid, so are the regulations just being ignored to facilitate this series?).

It was only a few weeks ago some Hetmyer slog went viral at the same venue, because he hit it outside the ground into someone house meaning the fielder had to go and knock for the ball back.... but I have a feeling rather than it being a noteworthy massive hit, if you extended the boundary to be like the SCG, the house in question would be somewhere behind the inner ring.

Not sure many of those sixes Pollard hit would clear even a medium size boundary. One of them, his bat it pointed directly upwards and he sort of slices across the ball..... beat the boundary by a mile, despite the fact he got pretty much nothing on it.

interesting - the bowlers did well then to keep the scores down given the size of bats nowadays and the power of some oif the batters

Struggling to decide if those West Indian openers are in the form of their lives or if Sri Lankan bowling is on it's knees. Evin Lewis looked eminently unbothered throughout the whole series.

Close match!

West Indies win the second ODI by five wickets with two balls to spare, to take the series 2-0.

Sri Lanka 273-8

Gunathilaka 96
Chandimal 71
Hasaranga 47

Jason Mohammed 3-47
Joseph 2-42

West Indies 274-5

Lewis 103
Hope 84
Pooran 35 not out

Pradeep 2-66
Thisara 2-45

West Indies take the ODI series 3-0.

Windies win the third ODI by five wickets with more than an over to spare.

Sri Lanka 274-6

Hasaranga 80 not out
Bandara 55 not out

Hosein 3-33

WI 276-5

Lil Bravo 102
Hope 64
Pollard 53 not out

Lakmal 2-56

Sri Lanka 169 all out

Thirimanne 70

Holder 5-27
Roach 3-47