O my god! What a significant turn back from Srilanka, 184/5, I thought it will be 150 max since they had lost some early wickets. Shehan and Dhasun are playing incredible innings. Well, it's still on Pakistan hand, provably they will win at the end.
True, they put up good fight in small patches. at least sri Lankan 's lower middle order batsmen and bowlers did good job. feel bad for jaisuriya though, this dude missed out his first international ton.
Really a great fight given by Sri Lanka but in the end Pakistan was a better team. If we leave aside Jayasuria's & Shehan's performance team was really poor in their approach even the bowlers really failed to deliver anything special. It could have been a shameful defeat for Sri Lanka if Shehan & Dhasun wouldn't have gone with that good partnership. Even though it's too early to say but Shehan looks really good batsmen for Sri Lanka got to feel bad for him for missing the century.
IPL is generating a lot of revenue for the BCCI, but I don't think that it is being beneficial for the game of cricket. On the other hand, it is negatively affecting the smaller nations (especially teams such as West Indies) by making their best players unavailable for the national duty. Individual players are benefitting a lot from IPL.
I disagree. Its advantages outweigh its disadvantages. More fame, popularity, entertainment value etc is what IPL provides which is why every cricketer wants to be a part of it these days. For example, Bumrah was discovered through IPL and he is the top ranked bowler today.
For example, players such as Kieron Pollard and Andre Russell make from IPL more than 10 times the salary they receive from the WICB. This is good for them. But at the same time, it requires them to put the IPL duty at a higher preference when compared to the national duty.
Almost any player would choose to do so and I don't blame them. Do you blame Ronaldo for moving to Juventus or Neymar for moving to PSG? Its the players choice at the end of the day and he/she is free to do as they please.
Actually these two things can't be compared, football has never really been a popular international sport we merely see the world cup and a handful of friendlies when it comes to international matches. Essence of Football lies in club football while Cricket has always been an international sport except for England county cricket world had never heard of country cricket before IPL. I don't feel there is anything wrong in playing for clubs but national duty as a sportsman must come first no matter what.
They already have lost the match.
