(Yesterday, 02:02 PM)Regista Wrote:(Yesterday, 10:04 AM)Bada Wrote: Obviously fell asleep because he was too slow, especially in the powerplay. This was not clear in my post? I should say "posts" because I said the same shit like 16 years ago.
I'm not even kidding. It happened for real. Falling asleep is better than getting angry though. You watch Sana for more than a decade, you get used to a certain tempo. Strikes rates in ODI cricket were going up, and then you get Tharanga moping around at SR 70.
There's a reason why people wanted Mahela to open back then. He was aggressive when he opened and used the fielding restrictions to his advantage.
Tharanga was never going to be very good due to his technical deficiencies (wasn't called "Sexy Edges" for no reason) and lack of aggression. He was not poor. Just not very good.
Yes, but you didn't fall sleep to Hashan etc. So it seems like you were acclimatized to a faster pace during the time Tharanga came onto the scene.
Yes, that's what I was trying to say here and with my comment on watching Sana
(Yesterday, 05:20 AM)Bada Wrote: I guess it was hard to give a shit in the early 90s because the game was different. Most teams had those slow go type of batters. Just got used to it.
It was slow in the early 90s. Just the way the game was played. So you didn't care that much. Expectations were low. That changed in the late 90s.
