*Official* Australia in Sri Lanka 2016

[Furball]

Do we know if this being broadcast in the UK?

 

[Howe_zat]

Do we know if this being broadcast in the UK?

sky have the rights but it's not on their schedule, so presumably not

 

[YorksLanka]

Was he on the England tour or did he pull out because of injury?

yes mate, he was in the test leg. He only played the second test at Durham. He only got three wickets and 0&35 with the bat and then got dropped from the ODI tour..He recently got a fifty in the tour match against Aus in the first innings but we got blown away for 83 in the second innings so that was deemed good enough by our selectors to look elsewhere..Unfortunately, there is a lot of politics that goes on in SLC and who you know can be just as important as how you play..that's why most SL fans I know hate the board for ruining our cricket(not to mention the swindling!)

 

[Shady Slim]

hoping herath gives us some trouble that way we get a restructured batting line up for when we tour india later, because if we get crunched against india i have no doubt there'll be pointless knee jerk selections where we drop nathan lyon and bring in shaun marsh because batting depth

always good when a milestone post is used to talk smack about a marsh

 

[Burgey]

How's MMarsh saying he's ready for the SL spinners. Bloke has taken ver from Watto as the Test Match board game batsman

 

[Furball]

sky have the rights but it's not on their schedule, so presumably not

Is my memory playing tricks or was the last visit by the Aussies not on Eurosport?

 

[YorksLanka]

Starc you male chicken it's not the 80's anymore.. bring it and prepare to get spanked by Angie...

 

[Gob]

Jesus christ Tum Tum

 

[Gob]

Ok so I assume it will be

Burns
Warner
Khawaja
Smith
Voges
Marsh
Nevill
O'Keefe
Starc
Hazlewood
Lyon

Solid side. Excited to catch aome action

 

[TheJediBrah]

That will undoubtedly be the side. I wouldn't mind seeing Bird in for Marsh to give 5 bowlers but no chance they will do that.

 

[Furball]

Mmarsh or Smarsh?

 

[morgieb]

Mmarsh or Smarsh?

Mitchell presumably. Australia loves its all-rounders.

 

[NUFAN]

Gob has correctly picked the XI - David Warner, Joe Burns, Usman Khawaja, Steve Smith (capt), Adam Voges, Mitchell Marsh, Peter Nevill, Mitchell Starc, Steve O’Keefe, Josh Hazlewood, Nathan Lyon.

I heard the other day that with Warner still getting over his injury, our catches will be: first slip: Voges, second: Smith third: Khawaja gully: Starc (no idea when he bowls).

 

[Spikey]

prob lyon

 

[91Jmay]

Yeah that is a pretty solid side, looks settled now with plenty of options with ball.

 

[aussie tragic]

Burns
Warner
Khawaja
Smith
Voges
Nevill
O'Keefe
Starc
Hazlewood
Bird
Lyon

I hope it's this, I just hate so much that Mmarsh bats at # 6 with an average of 23.00, so rather Nevill who at least has a FC ave of 40 and SOK also has an identical FC average to Mmarsh so batting him at #7 would be okay imo

 

[viriya]

It's not even funny how SL is gonna get destroyed this series. And for the foreseeable future.

 

[Gob]

Gob has correctly picked the XI - David Warner, Joe Burns, Usman Khawaja, Steve Smith (capt), Adam Voges, Mitchell Marsh, Peter Nevill, Mitchell Starc, Steve O’Keefe, Josh Hazlewood, Nathan Lyon.

I heard the other day that with Warner still getting over his injury, our catches will be: first slip: Voges, second: Smith third: Khawaja gully: Starc (no idea when he bowls).

Joe Burns usually takes the first strike

 

[Red]

Burns
Warner
Khawaja
Smith
Voges
Nevill
O'Keefe
Starc
Hazlewood
Bird
Lyon

I hope it's this, I just hate so much that Mmarsh bats at # 6 with an average of 23.00, so rather Nevill who at least has a FC ave of 40 and SOK also has an identical FC average to Mmarsh so batting him at #7 would be okay imo

Nup. Bottom order is too light on. I'd rather Henriques at #6 (better bat at this stage than Marsh and still a capable seamer) if we are playing 2 spinners. That said, I rate MMarsh and his batting will come on sooner rather than later.

 

[morgieb]

Predictions:

Scoreline: Australia 2-1. Australia dominate for the most part but one great spell from Herath gives Sri Lanka something to be happy about.
Player of the Series: Stephen O'Keefe
Most runs: Steven Smith
Most wickets: Stephen O'Keefe
Surprise packet: Stephen O'Keefe
Biggest failure: Dimuth Karunatne