Sri Lanka are new chokers of the cricketing world!!

i was thinking about this thought when you nailed it bang on,after the england team they are the new chokers for sure and failing to deliver in big stages

I agree, SL chocked badly.Actually they took the opposition lightly this time, like Ganguly rightly mentioned looking at target of 138 they thought that by playing out 20 overs they will get the target easily.If they would have attacked right from the start it would have been much closer.Its a shocker that SL who are experts on playing on these kind of pitches could not read the pitch and conditions properly.I thought that SL will easily crush WI. i was wrong and by a big margin.

i did not remember about the finals to be played today and i missed watching live. yes. i saw the scores now and i find Sri lanks have lost the match. They socred 101 runs only and got defeated . very sad. that is cricket. they have lost in their own home pitch. It is a tonic for west indies who are not winning many trophies.

Sri lanka played 4 finale in the last 5 years ,but the result every know . Well, you can say bad luck but using chokers beside their name is some sort of harsh . After South Africa , I find England as chokers and Sri Lanka will come third in order . But yes , the Sri lanka performance was impressive , only problem in the finale Sri lanka con not perform in their normal way .

Very interesting observation! It seems like they are taking themselves too seriously. SL knows that for it become No.1 in tests is very difficult because they are not a team that normally lasts 5 days of a test, particularly when playing abroad. In the 50 over match against India they were played out of their skins to put up that 275 but when Dhoni and his men overhauled that total with nonchalant ease the Lankans understood that this Indian team on home soil is impossible to defeat. They tried all tactics and even Sanga called for a re-toss but Dhoni was only mildly irritated but when it came to the match he simply blew Sanga away. That was a humiliating loss and we immediately saw the skipper resigning. Srlanka knows its best chances are in the shorter format where their limitations against quality fast bowling will not be exposed.So when they lost they were shattered and again the familiar resignation. Doesn't look good when you see a fine captain quit like that. The pressure to win is huge but their cricket board and the people have to understand they have a long way to go come close to top teams. It is good to punch way above your weight but to be able to become winners they have to put on some weight before they start to swagger. They have to sweat it out like India and Pakistan before they can consider themselves worthy of the crown. The problem with SA is different. They are not willing to become skillfl players and look down upon the smaller sized Asians and think they can blow away the opposition with pace and brutal strokes. So when a Small Sachin ora scholarly Dravid or a subdued VVS start to play they are easily overwhelmed and never seem to have plan two.. almost never. Too rigid and inflexible.

Yes i completely agree to your point. i think Sri Lankans had their best possible chances to lift the world cup that too at their home ground. But see they wilted under pressure and could not even give a tough fight to the Windies. They should have done it easily looking at the low score set by the Windies. They lost the golden opportunity and have to wait for another 2 years for this. What say?

I think Srilanka had been to finals lots of times and most times they have lost in the big matches. I think most probably they need to play cool to win matches.