But now the team may have finally stumbled on its next Andy Pettitte from a rather unlikely source.
After all the normalcy and pleasantries, I have finally stumbled into the set of a pornographic movie.
This Sri Lanka side have been in a state of evolution throughout the tournament and might have finally stumbled upon the right combination of huge hitting and crafty spin just in time for the final.
When I first saw "Wings of Desire" on video years ago, I had finally stumbled on a brilliant filmmaker who did not need to demonstrate a genius that was devoid of compassion and sensitivity for subjects that were often lone, abandoned, forgotten and, worst of all, unpopular.
But the billionaire star of The Apprentice has finally hit a stumbling block in Mayor Michael Bloomberg's berg: "Trump: The Billboard" has been cancelled.
Harriet Harman – deputy Labour party chief, leader of the House and, despite the ostensibly airtight denials, surely willing modestly to be swayed to succeed Gordon Brown in the top job – has finally, unintentionally, stumbled onto the core issue in the great MPs' expenses scandal.
After stumbling for six straight quarters, Take-Two Interactive Software may have finally hit its floor.
Have they finally stumbled on the elixir of eternal youth?
Today, after having been stranded for five days in the trees above the flooded Limpopo River valley, the survivors finally stumbled from a military helicopter onto firm ground.
As a family, they finally stumbled upon cycling.
