New Zealand have the better balanced team, certainly with no weak bowling link.
Real quality from Joyce, if against some weak bowling from Onyango.
Odds: 2-1 SrICCanka ICC ODI ranking: 4th WC best: Winners 1996 Coach: Marvan Attapattu Captain: Angelo Mathews Star player: Kumar Sangakkara Chances: The experienced batting trio of Sangakkara, Tillakaratne Dilshan and Mahela Jayawardene may be getting on but they can still set up victories despite a weak bowling line-up – Malinga apart.
In an inter-house match, he scored 365 not out, albeit against very weak bowling.
His record innings began cautiously, but against a weak bowling side, he increased his scoring rate after making his century and again after reaching 200.
Arlott later reasoned that what appeared weak bowling on English pitches would be a different proposition on the much faster Australian pitches.
Good catching was vital in a Surrey side which possessed weak bowling, making his contributions even more important, and critics regarded him as one of the best slip fielders in England.
Among views expressed by Test cricketers, Les Ames believed that while Hutton had shown great skill, a combination of a very easy wicket for batting and an unusually weak bowling attack presented an ideal opportunity.
Crawford replied that he had been unaware of the reason for the suspensions of Rushby and Lees which Alverstone and the committee disputed and would have supported Leveson Gower, but suggested it was unfair to ask him to captain a weak bowling team and then demand he apologise for preferring not to.
India now have strong claims to the weakest bowling unit in the one-day-Twenty20 arena, while the batting, bereft of the solidity that Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman bring to the Test side, is as unbalanced as Long John Silver after a bottle of Mount Gay when confronted by bowlers who propel the ball hard into the middle of the pitch.
