Srilanka team has been morally and physcially down after they have won the last and single worldcup in the history. Since that time, the players are not upto that performance mark and their performance is on the decline just like West Indies team.
I disagree with that. After the winning of 1996 word cup Sri Lanka was a team who dominated the world cricket for the next few years. Yes, from last one decade they could not perform well. Maybe it's because they were not able to produce players like Muralidharan, Chaminda Vaas etc.
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I guess some of the world cup winners have had faced the same issue after couple of years. Can't remember the exact one though. Srilanka has tried their best to win the world cup but no luck. It's now a proven true that "Laziness brings the evil mind" 
I think that the Srilankan board and few players from that squad are still not able to digest that they lost a winning match. It has been 9 years now and still, they are accusing each other. Are they always high or they are dumb?
Srilanka team has been morally and physcially down after they have won the last and single worldcup in the history. Since that time, the players are not upto that performance mark and their performance is on the decline just like West Indies team.
I guess some of the world cup winners have had faced the same issue after couple of years. Can't remember the exact one though. Srilanka has tried their best to win the world cup but no luck. It's now a proven true that "Laziness brings the evil mind"
I think that the Srilankan board and few players from that squad are still not able to digest that they lost a winning match. It has been 9 years now and still, they are accusing each other. Are they always high or they are dumb?
I guess some of the world cup winners have had faced the same issue after couple of years. Can't remember the exact one though. Srilanka has tried their best to win the world cup but no luck. It's now a proven true that "Laziness brings the evil mind"
I think that the Srilankan board and few players from that squad are still not able to digest that they lost a winning match. It has been 9 years now and still, they are accusing each other. Are they always high or they are dumb?
Lol, look at that! Sri Lankan former sport minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage smoking some fine weed nowadays. He's basically blaming sri lankan team that they fixed the match.
“In 2011, we were to win, but we sold the match. I feel I can talk about it now. I am not connecting players, but some sections were involved,” he said.
I was thinking there was a possibility for a scandal here but i lost when the sports minister said that the selectors were involved in loosing the match and the World Cup, it is funny the selectors selected a team just to reach till the final and then loose the World Cup to India “In 2011, we were to win, but we sold the match. I feel I can talk about it now. I am not connecting players, but some sections were involved,” he said.
. I am sure the retired players who played the game will respond harshly for this stupidity.This fixing of Worldcup 2011 issue has been looking up periodically and mostly from Srilanka. Why don't they investigate e it once? Why are they all accusing each other? In my opinion it was a fair match and India played well to win the cup.
I don't know any inside story also. But I remember that Srilanka gave tough fight against India. The full crowd was supporting India, still srilanka managed to put a good total on the board. And for the first 5-10 initial Indian innings, India was very much on the backfoot. India really fight hard ( Virat, Gambhir, Dhoni) to win the match.
If the minister knew about the fixing why he is claiming after so many years.
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I would not involve the cricketers in this. However, certain groups were definitely involved in fixing the game,
And what does it means ?? 
.Whatever if they have any clue they should investigate and proof. Or he should apologies to Indian fans and SriLankan cricket team.
I guess some of the world cup winners have had faced the same issue after couple of years. Can't remember the exact one though. Srilanka has tried their best to win the world cup but no luck. It's now a proven true that "Laziness brings the evil mind"
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Few former players and more importantly Sri Lankan board earned the reputation of being ridiculously corrupt, Even ICC was investing some old players due to corruption charges. I shared the news for lolz only.
Few former players and more importantly Sri Lankan board earned the reputation of being ridiculously corrupt, Even ICC was investing some old players due to corruption charges. I shared the news for lolz only.
Lol, look at that! Sri Lankan former sport minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage smoking some fine weed nowadays. He's basically blaming sri lankan team that they fixed the match.
“In 2011, we were to win, but we sold the match. I feel I can talk about it now. I am not connecting players, but some sections were involved,” he said.
I was thinking there was a possibility for a scandal here but i lost when the sports minister said that the selectors were involved in loosing the match and the World Cup, it is funny the selectors selected a team just to reach till the final and then loose the World Cup to India “In 2011, we were to win, but we sold the match. I feel I can talk about it now. I am not connecting players, but some sections were involved,” he said.
. I am sure the retired players who played the game will respond harshly for this stupidity.This fixing of Worldcup 2011 issue has been popping up periodically and almost everytine from the Srilankan side. Why don't they investigate it once? Why are they all accusing each other? In my opinion, it was a fair match and India played well to win the cup.
Lol, look at that! Sri Lankan former sport minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage smoking some fine weed nowadays. He's basically blaming sri lankan team that they fixed the match.
“In 2011, we were to win, but we sold the match. I feel I can talk about it now. I am not connecting players, but some sections were involved,” he said.
I was thinking there was a possibility for a scandal here but i lost when the sports minister said that the selectors were involved in loosing the match and the World Cup, it is funny the selectors selected a team just to reach till the final and then loose the World Cup to India “In 2011, we were to win, but we sold the match. I feel I can talk about it now. I am not connecting players, but some sections were involved,” he said.
. I am sure the retired players who played the game will respond harshly for this stupidity.Lol, look at that! Sri Lankan former sport minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage smoking some fine weed nowadays. He's basically blaming sri lankan team that they fixed the match.
“In 2011, we were to win, but we sold the match. I feel I can talk about it now. I am not connecting players, but some sections were involved,” he said.
I was thinking there was a possibility for a scandal here but i lost when the sports minister said that the selectors were involved in loosing the match and the World Cup, it is funny the selectors selected a team just to reach till the final and then loose the World Cup to India “In 2011, we were to win, but we sold the match. I feel I can talk about it now. I am not connecting players, but some sections were involved,” he said.
. I am sure the retired players who played the game will respond harshly for this stupidity.Lol, look at that! Sri Lankan former sport minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage smoking some fine weed nowadays. He's basically blaming sri lankan team that they fixed the match.
‘We sold the World Cup final to India’: Sri Lankan minister’s huge match-fixing accusation
https://twitter.com/FoxCricket/status/1273563706580856833
I not agree with you because if he is smoking find weed then surely he give statement India bought 2011 World Cup so he is smoking some very poor weed like Chandimal who claim he won test series against Pakistan with the help of black magic so he give this statement we sold the 2011 World Cup poor guy. ‘We sold the World Cup final to India’: Sri Lankan minister’s huge match-fixing accusation
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“I tell you today that we sold the 2011 World Cup finals,” Aluthgamage told Sirasa TV. “Even when I was sports minister I believed this.” Aluthgamage, sports minister from 2010 to 2015 and now state minister for renewable energy and power, said he “did not want to disclose” the plot at the time.
“In 2011, we were to win, but we sold the match. I feel I can talk about it now. I am not connecting players, but some sections were involved,” he said.
“In 2011, we were to win, but we sold the match. I feel I can talk about it now. I am not connecting players, but some sections were involved,” he said.
https://twitter.com/FoxCricket/status/1273563706580856833
Lol, look at that! Sri Lankan former sport minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage smoking some fine weed nowadays. He's basically blaming sri lankan team that they fixed the match.
‘We sold the World Cup final to India’: Sri Lankan minister’s huge match-fixing accusation
https://twitter.com/FoxCricket/status/1273563706580856833
‘We sold the World Cup final to India’: Sri Lankan minister’s huge match-fixing accusation
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“I tell you today that we sold the 2011 World Cup finals,” Aluthgamage told Sirasa TV. “Even when I was sports minister I believed this.” Aluthgamage, sports minister from 2010 to 2015 and now state minister for renewable energy and power, said he “did not want to disclose” the plot at the time.
“In 2011, we were to win, but we sold the match. I feel I can talk about it now. I am not connecting players, but some sections were involved,” he said.
“In 2011, we were to win, but we sold the match. I feel I can talk about it now. I am not connecting players, but some sections were involved,” he said.
https://twitter.com/FoxCricket/status/1273563706580856833
Today there was a statement from Justin Langer (coach of the Australian team). According to him, there is a possibility that Australia may tour England for an ODI series. He has hinted that this tour may happen during the first half of September. If confirmed, this series will replace the Australia's cancelled tour (3 T20Is and 3 ODIs). Just to add, as of now, information is available only for the ODIs. Langer hasn't mentioned anything about the T20I matches.
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Once again you misinterpreted me. I wasn't saying that Afridi was media hungry or attention hungry. I was saying that his presence made sure that the relief operation undertaken by his teem got the needed media attention, and thereby donations from the public. If he is not there, then the relief operation may not get that much coverage from the Pakistani media.
May be we are on the same page on a small aspect, you were blaming Afridi for his carelessness when he was doing something generous for his community. There are people who like to play the boss and ask others to do the activities and when i heard that Afridi was doing it personally it is not a small feat. Hope he recovers well as he is a healthy athlete even though he is retired and unless you have a history of diseases you are fine.Once again you misinterpreted me. I wasn't saying that Afridi was media hungry or attention hungry. I was saying that his presence made sure that the relief operation undertaken by his teem got the needed media attention, and thereby donations from the public. If he is not there, then the relief operation may not get that much coverage from the Pakistani media.
I would blame Afridi for his carelessness. There was no need for him to travel to the affected areas. He could have simply donated the money and asked the volunteers to do the relief work. If he gets infected, then the entire operation may get impacted negatively.
^^^ Perhaps you got me wrong. I was just saying that the continued presence of Afridi was required for the relief operations. He could attract media attention and funding. So that's why I was saying that he should have asked the volunteers to do the field work rather than putting himself at risk. Anyway.. I just hope that he will recover quickly.
I have no idea what kind of charity work and exposure he is trying to get with his actions, he might not be looking for media attention for his charity work and he wanted to genuinely help people rather than having a team helping him out just for the sake of advertisement and so is the reason he went down in the field and helped people. I hope he recovers well and the corona virus is not a killer for healthy people and with the way Afridi looks he is healthy and doing good.
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Once again you misinterpreted me. I wasn't saying that Afridi was media hungry or attention hungry. I was saying that his presence made sure that the relief operation undertaken by his teem got the needed media attention, and thereby donations from the public. If he is not there, then the relief operation may not get that much coverage from the Pakistani media.
Don't want to divert from the topic too much. The latest news from the ODI format is that Ireland is in talks with the England & Wales Cricket Board (ECB) for a series of 3 ODIs in late July.
https://www.rte.ie/sport/cricket/2020/0608/1146142-cricketers-resume-training-as-july-odi-talks-continue/
Once again you misinterpreted me. I wasn't saying that Afridi was media hungry or attention hungry. I was saying that his presence made sure that the relief operation undertaken by his teem got the needed media attention, and thereby donations from the public. If he is not there, then the relief operation may not get that much coverage from the Pakistani media.
Don't want to divert from the topic too much. The latest news from the ODI format is that Ireland is in talks with the England & Wales Cricket Board (ECB) for a series of 3 ODIs in late July.
https://www.rte.ie/sport/cricket/2020/0608/1146142-cricketers-resume-training-as-july-odi-talks-continue/
^^^ Perhaps you got me wrong. I was just saying that the continued presence of Afridi was required for the relief operations. He could attract media attention and funding. So that's why I was saying that he should have asked the volunteers to do the field work rather than putting himself at risk. Anyway.. I just hope that he will recover quickly.
I have no idea what kind of charity work and exposure he is trying to get with his actions, he might not be looking for media attention for his charity work and he wanted to genuinely help people rather than having a team helping him out just for the sake of advertisement and so is the reason he went down in the field and helped people. I hope he recovers well and the corona virus is not a killer for healthy people and with the way Afridi looks he is healthy and doing good.
^^^ Perhaps you got me wrong. I was just saying that the continued presence of Afridi was required for the relief operations. He could attract media attention and funding. So that's why I was saying that he should have asked the volunteers to do the field work rather than putting himself at risk. Anyway.. I just hope that he will recover quickly.
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Well.. that may be true. The active players are unlikely to venture out, and therefore the chances are going to be very small. At this point, I would blame Afridi for his carelessness. There was no need for him to travel to the affected areas. He could have simply donated the money and asked the volunteers to do the relief work. If he gets infected, then the entire operation may get impacted negatively.
Lets say that everyone who had contact with the virus was not venturing out to get the virus, if Afridi was doing charity work during a pandemic it is a noble cause to help out the poor and you cannot blame or label anyone just because they got infected. The idea of being a master and asking the salves (volunteers) to do the work is a bit hypocritical. The people who are on the front line, be it medical workers or charity workers they are doing a difficult job at this period and you need to appreciate the risk they are taking. Well.. that may be true. The active players are unlikely to venture out, and therefore the chances are going to be very small. At this point, I would blame Afridi for his carelessness. There was no need for him to travel to the affected areas. He could have simply donated the money and asked the volunteers to do the relief work. If he gets infected, then the entire operation may get impacted negatively.
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OK. Shahid Afridi is the first international cricketer to get infected by COVID 19. But he won't be the last. Considering the rate at which the virus is spreading in South Asia (perhaps with the exception of Sri Lanka), I expect dozens of players to get infected. Won't be that surprised even if some of the current players get the disease. In India/Pakistan/Bangladesh, the situation is very gloomy right now.
Shahid Afridi is a retired player and so is the reason he is involved in charity work and so is the reason he got corona positive and it is really unfortunate, if you look at all the international players they are taking rest and healing their body and spending their time with their family and hence i do not see any player getting exposed to the virus.OK. Shahid Afridi is the first international cricketer to get infected by COVID 19. But he won't be the last. Considering the rate at which the virus is spreading in South Asia (perhaps with the exception of Sri Lanka), I expect dozens of players to get infected. Won't be that surprised even if some of the current players get the disease. In India/Pakistan/Bangladesh, the situation is very gloomy right now.
Well.. that may be true. The active players are unlikely to venture out, and therefore the chances are going to be very small. At this point, I would blame Afridi for his carelessness. There was no need for him to travel to the affected areas. He could have simply donated the money and asked the volunteers to do the relief work. If he gets infected, then the entire operation may get impacted negatively.
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