***Official*** Australia in Sri Lanka

[SamSawnoff]

What an arsey catch. Hads literally had the ball run up his leg and land in his gloves. Brilliant, Copes deserves some luck.

 

[Spikey]

COPEs

HADs

 

[pup11]

Hard to fault the effort put in by bowlers today but the fact of the matter is that on flat tracks you need skills to bowl good batsmen out and that's one thing totally lacking.

EDIT: Dilshan there has probably provided us with a glimmer of hope, now we need a freakish spell from Siddle.

 

[uvelocity]

haha that was arsey as, I was typing when it happened haha. Should have been on for ages old copes though

 

[hang on]

finally

 

[NUFAN]

One thing that Copeland has done that is similar to McGrath is that he's dominated the opposition captain. Hopefully this continues next series against Graeme Smith too.

 

[Ruckus]

Hard to fault the effort put in by bowlers today but the fact of the matter is that on flat tracks you need skills to bowl good batsmen out and that's one thing totally lacking.

What do you expect man? Only the very best of bowlers can do anything on these pitches. The bottom line is it is the batsmen who have put us in this difficult position, not the bowlers.

 

[Burgey]

What do you expect man? Only the very best of bowlers can do anything on these pitches. The bottom line is it is the batsmen who have put us in this difficult position, not the bowlers.

This.

Two of the attack are novice bowlers. They're being patient and the home side aren't getting away from them.

Patience, both with their careers and in this match.

If they bowl tight, time starts to work in Australia's favour.

 

[Spark]

5/337 isn't the worst effort on this deck vs. these batsmen in its own right.

 

[Ruckus]

5/337 isn't the worst effort on this deck vs. these batsmen in its own right.

Yeah it's not bad at all. We would actually be in a pretty strong position if we managed to get a par 400ish score.

 

[uvelocity]

1/87 was lanka's session, but no disaster

so that's 3/171 on a flat deck, not the worst effort in the world. esp considering 3 records of the 3 dismissed batsmen.

 

[Loose Cannon]

Brad Haddin retires from international Twenty20 cricket to concentrate on Test and one-day cricket

ugh, not Paine.

 

[Burgey]

P Siddy first up.

 

[Spikey]

Kinda a silly retirement if true. mainly cause he doesn't play in the home T20's anyway. he plays in the overseas ones but only 'cause they can't be bothered to send yet another T20 player only in the squad (Warner, White, Finch etc)

 

[Spark]

Brad Haddin retires from international Twenty20 cricket to concentrate on Test and one-day cricket

ugh, not Paine.

Paine has a good domestic T20 record. No great loss. Parallels with Clarke retirement easy to draw.

 

[uvelocity]

slow news day

 

[Burgey]

Siddle undoes a few overs of good pressure with a couple of rank balls.

 

[Outswinger@Pace]

Tremendous looking straight drive from Matthews to get to 50. Key is to get in and make this a big score. For himself and his team and in the process put this match beyond the tourists' grasp.

 

[Spark]

Have to keep the pressure on. Can't afford to leak easy runs.

 

[Ruckus]

Such boring cricket...