*Official* Sri Lanka in Australia 2010

[Dissector]

I am always nervous about bowling spinners in the death overs not matter how good they are. This over could lose SL the game.

 

[Spark]

Now that sucks.

 

[Ruckus]

8 more of those will do the job n

Edit: and out

haha

 

[Spark]

Okay now Smith MUST hog the strike.

 

[Daemon]

That was apparently a 125m six. Biggest I've seen so far

 

[Matt79]

Aussies been so badly outplayed by this SL outfit. Such a good team the lankans - so many great players - Sanga, Mahela, Murali, Malinga and the new guys who are bobbing up now.

Smith out now.

 

[Spark]

That's the match. Well played Sri Lanka, deserve it.

We half lost this when Watson got out. The rest was lost when Clarke got out. They were the ones who look settled, we needed them to see us through to about 140-150.

 

[Jayzamann]

piss piss piss piss piss piss piss

 

[Sylvester]

SL setting good field and the bowlers are backing up the captain. There in lies our problem on the bowling front, batting is a whole different story.

 

[Ruckus]

piss piss piss piss piss piss piss

poo poo poo poo poo poo poo poo poo poo poo

 

[social]

Well played SL - too good

Bring on the fc games as our guys need pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeenty of practice

 

[Spark]

SL setting good field and the bowlers are backing up the captain. There in lies our problem on the bowling front, batting is a whole different story.

I don't know how much you can read into this though with respects to batting. When you're trying to score at 7, 8, 9 RPO against such tight bowling, and when 4's are near-impossible (so you've got to try for sixes or 3/4 of the way), you're gonna see a few silly shots.

Bottom line we should never have let them get to 210 off 41 overs. Especially at the SCG with rain about, that's way, way, way too much.

 

[Ruckus]

Hauritz to get 36 of one over, Aus to win

 

[Ruckus]

I don't know how much you can read into this though with respects to batting. When you're trying to score at 7, 8, 9 RPO against such tight bowling, and when 4's are near-impossible (so you've got to try for sixes or 3/4 of the way), you're gonna see a few silly shots.

Bottom line we should never have let them get to 210 off 41 overs. Especially at the SCG with rain about, that's way, way, way too much.

Lets just blame Hussey again, that always soothes the pain.

 

[Prince EWS]

Hauritz to get 36 of one over, Aus to win

Nah, Hauritz to get 36 off one over and Australia to lose anyway. Jayawardene to come on and take the last two wickets with vicious inswingers and rescue the game from the death.

 

[Spark]

I thought the vogue thing nowadays was to blame Clarke

 

[social]

I don't know how much you can read into this though with respects to batting. When you're trying to score at 7, 8, 9 RPO against such tight bowling, and when 4's are near-impossible (so you've got to try for sixes or 3/4 of the way), you're gonna see a few silly shots.

Bottom line we should never have let them get to 210 off 41 overs. Especially at the SCG with rain about, that's way, way, way too much.

Should've got 270 in Melbourne and failure to capitalise on starts has been our problem at all levels for yonks

To me, it's been a case of "same ole, same ole" and they've paid for it for the TENTH time in a row

 

[benchmark00]

Taylor votes for the good guys and barracks for the Dragons.

Good bloke.

 

[Ruckus]

This ball is like a ****ing canon ball tonight.

 

[Spark]

Should have yes. Clarke's done it twice now so he has to have a bit of a think about it. More Wednesday, which was just awful, than today, which was more of an attempt to hit it for six, which we kinda needed.

We didn't capitulate, though, which is good. We just got outplayed.