***Official*** Australia in Sri Lanka

[Redbacks]

Yes Phil, quick 50 would be brilliant

 

[Ruckus]

Danish Kaneria's caught and bowled still comes to mind everytime Hughes comes into bat tbh

Don't remember that one clearly, was that the one handed 'diving' catch?

 

[Spark]

Danish Kaneria's caught and bowled still comes to mind everytime Hughes comes into bat tbh

Or ABdV's "how the **** did you catch that" catch?

 

[TumTum]

Don't remember that one clearly, was that the one handed 'diving' catch?

yeah, hughes was unlucky though because the ball landed on the rough and held up.

 

[Ruckus]

Or ABdV's "how the **** did you catch that" catch?

Can't call that bad luck though. Just amazing fielding.

 

[Prince EWS]

Feet FFS!

 

[Riggins]

Anyone know whose acually covering this? Who do I need to email to get them the show the Sri Lankan dismissals!??

 

[adub]

I wonder if Hughes has had a chat with Hayden about batting in sub-continental conditions. His preference for sweeping is reminiscent of Haydos' breakthrough series in India.

 

[Jayzamann]

Clarke may as well have his **** out.

 

[Spark]

50 p'ship. Good work.

 

[Stapel]

seriously, batsmen have become so ill-disciplined.
so many rash shots/dismissals today...

I fully agree with this!

However, there comes a moment in cricket where a pitch is so hostile, that a batsman can't handle it, so his wicket will fall any moment. Time to slog then,as many/most tailenders do. Judging from cricinfo's commentary (I haven't seen any of it myself) this wicket indeed is too hot to handle for proper batsmen.

Is that really true?

If so, I would argue the pitch is rubbish......

 

[Spark]

I fully agree with this!

However, there comes a moment in cricket where a pitch is so hostile, that a batsman can't handle it, so his wicket will fall any moment. Time to slog then,as many/most tailenders do. Judging from cricinfo's commentary (I haven't seen any of it myself) this wicket indeed is too hot to handle for proper batsmen.

Is that really true?

If so, I would argue the pitch is rubbish......

Haha, nah. This pitch is tough to bat on for sure but some of the batting has been hilariously bad.

 

[Jayzamann]

It's refreshing to see the ball dominate. It's no more flattering to mediocre bowlers as much as roads have flattered mediocre batsmen.

 

[Spark]

It's refreshing to see the ball dominate. It's no more flattering to mediocre bowlers as much as roads have flattered mediocre batsmen.

Yeah precisely. If we complain about flat wickets then we should be praising wickets like this. This might be a bit overdone but I won't hold that against it. The cricket has been great.

 

[Ruckus]

Didn't manage to watch any of the earlier stuff. Were Lyon's wickets more to do with solid bowling or just ridiculous assistance from the pitch/batsmen? Also how did Harris, Johnson and Copeland fare? Threatening or otherwise?

 

[Jayzamann]

All those slow motion replays exacerbate the dust. It's immense.

 

[social]

Been very impressed with Clarke's captaincy so far

Whilst it obviously helps that his attack actually managed to put 2 balls in a row in the same spot for a change, he seemed to have good plans and has also started off batting quite aggressively here which is exactly what the teams needs.

 

[Burgey]

Jeez the slow mo replay looked like that turned, but hawkeye showed no deviation. May have been a weird angle on the slow mo.

 

[Spark]

Didn't manage to watch any of the earlier stuff. Were Lyon's wickets more to do with solid bowling or just ridiculous assistance from the pitch/batsmen? Also how did Harris, Johnson and Copeland fare? Threatening or otherwise?

Solid bowling but then the SL tail played like the SL tail.

Threatening
Johnson
Tight.

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I thought that turned... interesting. Still, OK knock in the circumstances.

 

[MW1304]

Really good decision, that. Was tough to gauge with all the glove.