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Sri Lankan players to "Work From Home" for England tour
Sri Lankan players are awaiting a response from the Sri Lankan Cricket Board on their proposal to allow them to "Work from Home". The proposal; which the Lankan cricketers claim has the backing of the PCA; is viewed by many in the World of Sport as a breakthrough that will spark innovation and productivity of sportsmen the world over.
Telecommuting is not an entirely new concept. For example in the US 40% of the workforce has telecommuted at least portions of their jobs as software programmers, call center operators and political campaign workers. Believers of telecommuting often site this as the only viable "going green" option with immediate, quantifiable, near term benefits to costs and the environment.
How exactly this model will work for the Sri Lankan cricketers on their upcoming tour of England has left many experts and fans perplexed, if not mildly amused.
Lasith Malinga, who is nursing an injury by playing for the IPL franchise, the Mumbai Indians, is the architect behind the proposal. Asked how he can play for a privately owned franchise while asking to be rested from Tests that Sri Lanka is scheduled to play in England, Malinga said, "Its part of the rehabilitation"
Lasith Malinga, chose to focus on the benefits of telecommuting to cricketers, especially in the age of IPL. "Look with telecommuting you can play in the IPL and play for your country. You won't have situations like Chris Gayle, where the poor guy is forced to play in the IPL instead of his country. You won't have to embarrass the BCCI by calling your players before the IPL finals to play side games on the England tour"
But isn't telecommuting for people who work from home? he was asked...
"Well IPL is our home". He added quickly.
"Look doctors can operate on their patients remotely, choirs are sung virtually over the Internet, software gets developed by people working from home. So why can't cricketers get to play remotely. This way we can play the IPL finals and show up for the first Test in Cardiff on Day 4 and play the rest of the game in person; after telecommuting for the first 3 days"
But where is the technology to support this?
"Look at the DRS...." he added
"Don't we have a DRS with no hot spot, snick-o-meter, reliable ball tracking technology and common sense in Billy Bowden? Why should lack of technology be a roadblock for my proposal? If we can implement the DRS using basically just "slow motion" - a technology invented in the 1930s, surely we can allow cricketers to telecommute using Video Conferences"
By Golandaaz
You can read Gol's opinions at his blog, Opinions On Cricket and on twitter, http://twitter.com/oponcr
Telecommuting is not an entirely new concept. For example in the US 40% of the workforce has telecommuted at least portions of their jobs as software programmers, call center operators and political campaign workers. Believers of telecommuting often site this as the only viable "going green" option with immediate, quantifiable, near term benefits to costs and the environment.
How exactly this model will work for the Sri Lankan cricketers on their upcoming tour of England has left many experts and fans perplexed, if not mildly amused.
Lasith Malinga, who is nursing an injury by playing for the IPL franchise, the Mumbai Indians, is the architect behind the proposal. Asked how he can play for a privately owned franchise while asking to be rested from Tests that Sri Lanka is scheduled to play in England, Malinga said, "Its part of the rehabilitation"
Lasith Malinga, chose to focus on the benefits of telecommuting to cricketers, especially in the age of IPL. "Look with telecommuting you can play in the IPL and play for your country. You won't have situations like Chris Gayle, where the poor guy is forced to play in the IPL instead of his country. You won't have to embarrass the BCCI by calling your players before the IPL finals to play side games on the England tour"
But isn't telecommuting for people who work from home? he was asked...
"Well IPL is our home". He added quickly.
"Look doctors can operate on their patients remotely, choirs are sung virtually over the Internet, software gets developed by people working from home. So why can't cricketers get to play remotely. This way we can play the IPL finals and show up for the first Test in Cardiff on Day 4 and play the rest of the game in person; after telecommuting for the first 3 days"
But where is the technology to support this?
"Look at the DRS...." he added
"Don't we have a DRS with no hot spot, snick-o-meter, reliable ball tracking technology and common sense in Billy Bowden? Why should lack of technology be a roadblock for my proposal? If we can implement the DRS using basically just "slow motion" - a technology invented in the 1930s, surely we can allow cricketers to telecommute using Video Conferences"
By Golandaaz
You can read Gol's opinions at his blog, Opinions On Cricket and on twitter, http://twitter.com/oponcr
The Sandwich Maker
They first sandwiched a test series between two ODI series. Then they sandwiched a poor pitch between two good ones.
First the base: the Asia Cup: Plenty of context. You'd think it's at the bottom and no one cares about it but it matters. Your appetite can always use ingredients from all over the subcontinent adding their own flavours. The Boom Boom especially was entertaining. There were a few complaints that it was good for brunch but not exactly great for evenings under lights.
The stuffing. Three layers of it. Some important Indian ingredients were missing so it was always gonna be a little imbalanced.
Galle was a Sri Lankan delicacy, it takes getting used to to. Some can have it for 4 out of 5 courses, some can barely keep it in. Watching the non regulars struggle with it can be entertaining.
SSC was stale meat. Just a lot of chewing. Just when you'd feel like you were about to extract some juice, there came more chewing. Tasted like road. Left with no choice when some of their old stuff became spoilt, India toyed with a new ingredient which surprisingly tasted good with the fine old wine. it was the highlight, I feel.
The P Sara. A good mix of greens and meat. The very, very special garnishing left you with a good taste if you didn't enjoy the Galle and the SSC.
Overall I'd say they got it right, but the stuffing within the stuffing can improve. That's the road I refer to.
by Crownish
blogs at FCKING BLOG (Fantasy Cricket Kings Blog)
Player Profile: Ajantha Mendis
On his day, Mendis ran through the Indians, most of whom didn’t read him, while the ones who did, like Sehwag and Gambhir weren’t into reading. When Mendis ceased to be a mystery spinner he became a mystery batsman. He wielded the bat as if it were a ball. Not easy, but when you wear short sleeves, anything’s possible including a mind altering 10th wicket partnership against the Indians. In 2010, it came to light that the repetitive India-Lanka series were being played because the chief office bearers of both the BCCI and SLC were under the hypnotic spell of Mendis.
Nowadays Mendis spends his time perfecting mystery fielding drills like the hoopla catch and the cobra chase, the latter entails Ajantha in a hood snapping at the ball with his mouth, leaves batsmen mesmerized, causing mid-pitch collisions followed by run-outs.
Bored Profile: Rumesh Ratnayake
Rumesh Ratnayake was the front man for a 80s pop group called the Sri Lankan cricket team. He knew a thing or two about headbands.
You've come a long way, baby.
Marvan is somewhat of a family joke. For a guy who barely made it through post match interviews, it takes some doing to be wading through hours of pre, post and in between match conferences.
Yesterday, mother appeared from nowhere and pointed out, “areh, this is that…Atapattu, isko kya ho gaya, yeh bara smart ho gaya!”
We laughed, as one does, or two do, or most people would, at Atapattu’s expense.
Now the warped bit is I like Atapattu more than most people. More than Atapattu at least, anyway he doesn’t seem to like himself.
I enjoyed his miserable, grumbling onfield demeanour, playing cricket was a calamity for him. In spite of that he played 90 tests, 268 ODIs, today much retired, cricket is poorer richer without him.
Why Kandamby can never be given leg before wicket
Have you seen the size of those legs, they're always outisde the line.
Bored Boy: Samaraweera the bullet
I can’t wait for Samara to smash his first ODI six, obviously, neither can he. If you saw the ugly, cross-batted mistimed heave aimed at mid-wicket that landed at third man, and then landed him in the dressing room, you know desperation.
That shot against SA was clearly against the grain. Samara had already done the laundry and dirty work – he had shown patience, stalled a collapse that the lower middle order Lankans are prone to, be it in T20 or ODIs.
But there is a time when a man runs out of patience. After being shot, there’s one thing Samara knows, life is short, enjoy. But being a test batsman he also knows how to bore the hell out of you.
At that point, Samara’s two worlds collided, as did his bat and brain, the urge to hit his first ODI six clearly won over. Here’s to an ugly slog today. May it go for six.
Never hit an ODI six, but scored a double century in tests.
Make that two test doubles. What sort of restraining order accompanies a player like Samaraweera – not that he hasn’t played an ODI ever, he’s held back for 21 games now. To complicate matters further, he’s hit a six in tests.
If ever Sri Lanka needs six runs on the last ball to win a game, there’s one man they don’t want at the crease.
Samaraweera. His brother’s name is DP Samareweera. For short that would be DPS. In India he would be an institution, but that’s a different school of thought.
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