***Official*** Sri Lanka in Australia

[silentstriker]

Yeah. I can't believe this still. WTF were they thinking. Atapattu was right.

Was it the selectors? I thought it was the captain/coach?

 

[JBH001]

Bayliss has no vote when it comes to selections.

Although he is allowed to voice his opinion and preferences.

I dont know what Mahela's stand on the issue was.

 

[Top_Cat]

But when you've got a bloke who strikes at a wicket about every 48 balls for less than 31 apiece it's madness not to have him in your XI.

Especially since he's bowling more economically than that these days and his stats are on the way down.

Yup, picking Malinga might not having won them the first Test but it's hardly putting their best foot forward either.

 

[Pratters]

Was it the selectors? I thought it was the captain/coach?

Whoever. In India at least it is a combination of selectors and captain who decide the team. Ideally, I would like it to be the captain's decision but not sure what's the case with Lanka.

 

[JBH001]

Nah no way. Bellerive is a spinner's graveyard. It's a road for the whole Test even if it went for 8 days.

Is it? Hmmm, I just have a feeling that Murali will go alright in this game - that he will bowl well and take wickets (unlike in Brisbane). Though to do so I think he will have to abandon his half of the time stock bowler role and attack the Australian batsmen throughout their innings' - even if he does go for a few in the process.

 

[silentstriker]

Bring on Murali soon, I suppose.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Ouch. Skipper. Puts down an edge.

 

[LongHopCassidy]

Fair go, looked like a half-chance. Catching with his non-dominant, too.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Fair go, looked like a half-chance. Catching with his non-dominant, too.

Toughie, yeah. Oppo not renowned for their charity tho.

 

[LongHopCassidy]

Still, my happy camping would be well curtailed if that counted on my first-chance average.

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Well deserved wicket for Sri Lanka, been more played and misses than shots out of the middle.

 

[Smudge]

See ya, Hayden. Gone for 17.

 

[Jono]

I agree with Tony GREEEEEEEIG!

Bring Murali on for a bit. Why not?

 

[Nate]

Well done Fernando-bashers. Well done.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Is Jaques renowned as a dodgy runner/caller? Twice he's been gone in 3 overs.

 

[silentstriker]

I agree with Tony GREEEEEEEIG!

Bring Murali on for a bit. Why not?

Argh, you don't agree with me when I said the same thing before him?

 

[silentstriker]

Ponting ain't scoring slow, gotta keep him in check or get him out.

 

[Son Of Coco]

Is Jaques renowned as a dodgy runner/caller? Twice he's been gone in 3 overs.

I think he may have attended the 'Steve and Mark Waugh School Of Running Between Wickets' from 1998-2001.

 

[pup11]

****ing dire decision to drop Vass IMO!

 

[pup11]

I think he may have attended the 'Steve and Mark Waugh School Of Running Between Wickets' from 1998-2001.

Well that might be true , but truth be told Jaques is not a very good athlete and his running between the wickets and his fielding standard clearly confirms that.