*Official* Sri Lanka in Australia 2010

[robelinda]

Sorry I was meant to type 05/06.

2004/05 was NZ and SA I believe.

02/03 was the Lehmann black **** tour

Lehmann, what was he thinking?!?! 04/05 was WI and Pak v Aus. The mental Lara ton at Adelaide v Pak was heavenly.

 

[vcs]

Sorry I was meant to type 05/06.

2004/05 was NZ and SA I believe.

02/03 was the Lehmann black **** tour

It was Pak/WI in '05 IIRC.

 

[Spark]

The fact that it was Perera that good three of the first four wickets makes this so much worse. He's not even a bowler; he's a pretty mediocre batting allrounder selected almost as a specialist slogger. He's bowled okay, but it's still dire.

He wasn't even bowling that great, tbh. Clarke not playing that shot and he'd still be going at 7-8 an over.

Hussey 16 off 30. How things can change...

 

[Prince EWS]

Wouldn't Clarke scoring a ton off 120 balls be nice about now?

Trust the **** to score a brisk 27 the one game we need him to anchor...

 

[Jayzamann]

Oh jesus what the **** happened here?

:*(

 

[Spark]

Think we'll need a bit more than 250 on this pitch...

@Jayz: In a nutshell. Watson was horrid, Haddin was going great guns, then Watson got out. Then Clarke was going great guns too to everyone's surprise, then played a horrid shot. Then Haddin slapped a half-tracked to gully, and White missed a straight-ish ball on middle stump. Since then Hussey and Marsh have been making up for Clarke's unusually aggressive play by going at 3 runs an over.

 

[robelinda]

Docklands, come on, thats easy.

 

[Jayzamann]

Think we'll need a bit more than 250 on this pitch...

@Jayz: In a nutshell. Watson was horrid, Haddin was going great guns, then Watson got out. Then Clarke was going great guns too to everyone's surprise, then played a horrid shot. Then Haddin slapped a half-tracked to gully, and White missed a straight-ish ball on middle stump. Since then Hussey and Marsh have been making up for Clarke's unusually aggressive play by going at 3 runs an over.

Just saw the replay. Eww

 

[Prince EWS]

If you're only going to take singles, at least find the gaps FFS. Cutting long hops to cover point is dire.

 

[vcs]

Stating the obvious here, but with the inexperienced Australian attack, they need all the runs they can get here..

 

[Spark]

If you're only going to take singles, at least find the gaps FFS. Cutting long hops to cover point is dire.

It feels so strange to be saying that with Hussey on strike, not Clarke

 

[Jono]

SL $2.02

Value? Or do we think these guys will keep going for a while and those odds will steadily rise?

 

[Spark]

This is fairly poor stuff. No initiative from these two.

EDIT: Like that. Half-tracker, should've been slaughtered, instead gets two.

 

[BeeGee]

Looks like the aussies are treating this like an open wicket practice session for the ashes, 4/132 at a RR of 4.3.

 

[Ruckus]

Sanga will take this total down with one bicep.

 

[Spark]

I can only hope these two are planning a repeat of what happened vs. England in the 5th ODI, because otherwise this is fairly stupid.

 

[Burgey]

Wouldn't Clarke scoring a ton off 120 balls be nice about now?

Trust the **** to score a brisk 27 the one game we need him to anchor...

Who's "we" you Pommy ****?

 

[Prince EWS]

SL $2.02

Value? Or do we think these guys will keep going for a while and those odds will steadily rise?

Yeah I'm on it. Great value. Don't really rate Sri Lanka's batting in these conditions but Australia picked a **** bowling lineup anyway.

 

[vcs]

This incapability to find the singles is a relatively recent affliction with Hussey, and it's becoming a very noticeable trait in his batting in all forms of the game.

 

[Spark]

This incapability to find the singles is a relatively recent affliction with Hussey, and it's becoming a very noticeable trait in his batting in all forms of the game.

Clarke's fault, clearly learnt it from him in return for being able to hit fours.

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Geez, quite a sizeable SL contingent in today.