Often in the recent past, I have commended a good Sri Lankan performance. This is mainly because they get my sympathy because they are usually lambasted around pretty unfairly in the Indian cricket fan circles. Plus, maasochists love to take the opportunity of disrespecting India's strong 6-1 home series win over Sri Lanka under the able leadership of Dravid and Chappell, by claiming that it was, well, over Sri Lanka.
Well, this will hopefully show them. It is no mean feat to make it to the final of the tri series edging out a team as strong as South Africa, even more so when you have lost 3-1 in NZ and 6-1 in India just before. They have earned the right to challenge the Aussies and my best wishes are with them. Hope they can pull off their best performance. Hope Murali can dig deep to find that last bit of inspiration so that when he plays possibly his last match on Aussie grounds he would have silenced those foolish spectators (nay rowdies) with a match-winning performance. Hope the old fox Jayasuriya can conjure up a magical 100 for one last time. Hope that that immensely likeable bloke Marwan Atapattu can leave the Aussie shores victorious.
Thoughts added later:
On a related note, this guy Bandara seems to have something about him. Maybe SL have finally discovered a spinner worthy of partnering Murali.
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