This is going to be good. As a lover of the game one has to balance up the opposition the teams encountered this week to decide. Does one put more weight on Michael Clarke’s impressive 138 in Australia’s dead rubber victory over South Africa, or Peter Siddle’s eight wickets in the same game to help the Aussies over the line? Or do you take the performance of Tillakeratne Dilshan with a century in both innings and a little bonus 4/10 to seal the deal against weak foes like Bangladesh on the same level?
I am in the subjective game here, and in the end, even though Bangladesh should not be playing test match cricket in my view, the performance of Dilshan can’t be ignored. 162 to bolster the first innings and a second innings century (143) to put Sri Lanka in a beyond impregnable position is beyond much meaningful argument, especially as his first knock came with his side under pressure at 75/4. Dilshan’s 50th test was his most memorable as the average topped 40 and the runs approached 3000 for a test career spanning nearly a decade.
The Inaugural HDWLIA Award goes to Tillakaratne Dilshan of Sri Lanka.
