Cricket News-in-Brief - November 14, 2011 – Part 3
Sri Lanka’s batting coach http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Marvan-Samson-Atapattu-c74969 believes his side needs confidence in order to score runs
against Pakistan in the ongoing five match One Day International (ODI) series in the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/United-Arab-Emirates-c3033 (UAE).
Pakistan crushed the tourists by eight wickets in the first ODI of the series at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium on Friday, November 11, 2011 and have already won the Test series by 1-0.
Sri Lanka’s main problem has been batting, as the team has failed to post decent totals against the Men in Green.
According to Atapattu there is nothing wrong with the technique of the Sri Lankan batsmen, but they just need some confidence in order to make runs.
The former Test cricketer further added that players need to concentrate on every ball, as that is the only way of bringing consistency in batting.
England’s spinner Graeme Swann has stated that he cannot be compared to legends like http://www.senore.com/Cricket/M-Muralitharan-c1864
despite being number three in the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/ICC-World-Cup-2011-c100625 Test bowlers ranking.
The wily spinner further added that he does not possess the same kind of variety as the former legends from Australia and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758 had.
Swann went onto credit the Umpire Decision Review System (UDRS) for his success, saying that technology has now allowed the spinners to get some leg before decisions in their favour which were always considered not out in the past.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mohsin-Hasan-Khan-c77595 has warned the team of complacency
after winning the first ODI of the five match series against Sri Lanka.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mohammad-Hafeez-c76898 was dismissed in the opening game.
Chasing down 132 runs for victory, Pakistan did not have many problems. However, Hafeez was dismissed early in the innings after playing a false stroke.
England’s spinner http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Brian-Charles-Lara-c48471 as the best batsmen ever,
even better than the Indian veteran http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SR-Tendulkar-c2556.
According to Swann, even if Lara was born in the same era as http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746’s Don Bradman, he would have still been the best ever batsmen the world had ever seen.
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