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*Official* Australia in Sri Lanka 2016

YorksLanka

YorksLanka

International Debutant
Hopefully these two can get us to a lead of 250 and anything from there is a bonus.I am not sure anything under300 will be enough as the wicket has flattened but who knows if Herath can weave his magic..I am pleased that we have been competitive after a rubbish start in this match and hopefully this will build confidence in the remainder of the series..
 
Burgey

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YorksLanka said:
Hopefully these two can get us to a lead of 250 and anything from there is a bonus.I am not sure anything under300 will be enough as the wicket has flattened but who knows if Herath can weave his magic..I am pleased that we have been competitive after a rubbish start in this match and hopefully this will build confidence in the remainder of the series..
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Herath is a brilliant bowler to watch. Love his work. Also love the random crazy-good catches he takes in the outfield when one of his age and, errr, somewhat rotund physique has no right to catch.
 
OverratedSanity

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My favorite thing about herath is his arms-outstretched back-pedaling drawn out appeal to yet another straight ball which catches a fool plumb in front.
 
Migara

Migara

International Coach
Burgey said:
Can anyone who is familiar with horticulture and/ or groundskeeping explain how a wicket which seems to take turn and keep pretty low on the first two days can improve for batting? I can understand if a deck starts green or wet and flattens, or if it turns then deteriorates even more, but that doesn't seem to be the case here on past occasions (not that I've seen it, just going by reports). Can't work out in my head how it can happen tbh
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That is Sri Lankan special for you.

BTW the pitches become docile when they lose the pace. What ever spin will be pretty slow off the deck. Herath and Sandakan would be less effective on such a deck (Herath's arm balls may start to appear lot quicker though), but the man for the wicket is Dilruwan Perera. His brisk off breaks are perfect for it. It only needs few balls to grip at his pace of bowling to change the entire approach to batting.
 
Migara

Migara

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YorksLanka said:
Hopefully these two can get us to a lead of 250 and anything from there is a bonus.I am not sure anything under300 will be enough as the wicket has flattened but who knows if Herath can weave his magic..I am pleased that we have been competitive after a rubbish start in this match and hopefully this will build confidence in the remainder of the series..
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Dilruwan has to put his hand up and play as a proper batsman. He has been utter tripe after his first test innings. Man is good enough to average 30 with the bat, and should put some heart in to batting.
 
YorksLanka

YorksLanka

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Migara said:
Dilruwan has to put his hand up and play as a proper batsman. He has been utter tripe after his first test innings. Man is good enough to average 30 with the bat, and should put some heart in to batting.
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Yes agree,I have always thought he was a decent lower order bat.what we need is our bowlers to all bat with the bottle that Rangana shows..as I have said many times before, he is a street fighter and someone I would always want in our team...seems like Sandakan is good for a few also..we just need to get our fast bowlers to learn which end of the bat to hold..
 
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Dan Jamson

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Hazlewood is a good bowler. I was very surprised that he was dogshite in England. I thought those conditions would have suited him well.
 
morgieb

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Dan Jamson said:
Hazlewood is a good bowler. I was very surprised that he was dogshite in England. I thought those conditions would have suited him well.
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Part of that was because he had to defend totals of 60, and he got sucked into trying to bowl them out for a similar score, rather than trying to bowl normally. Which I think is an experience issue rather than a technique issue. He bowled well in the two Tests where he had runs on the board.

Oh that's unlucky :laugh:
 
TheJediBrah

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Dan Jamson said:
Hazlewood is a good bowler. I was very surprised that he was dogshite in England. I thought those conditions would have suited him well.
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He wasn't. He was nowhere near his best obviously (maybe not used to the duke ball, foreign conditions?). Even his average of about ~25 was far from terrible.

I remember he was inexplicably harshly treated by the media during and after the series. Compare him to a guy like Mark Wood, who Hazlewood was far better than during the series, but Wood had nothing but glowing praise from the media.

Was very bizarre, one of those matters of perspective and media influence I presume.
 
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