*Official* Australia in Sri Lanka 2016

[Burgey]

FMD is this a frenetic bloody test or what? EVERYONE SETTLE THE **** DOWN OUT THERE!

 

[mr_mister]

was surpised to find Dimuth Kauratune has scored 3 test tons


what is with SC players starting off insanely good and fading away before they've even played 20 tests

 

[morgieb]

If only Sri Lanka's quality was determined by their openers...

 

[mr_mister]

I feel Smith should bowl himself before Voges

 

[Dan Jamson]

Sri Lanka's openers could be the most pointless people in all competitive sport.

 

[Gnske]

Time for Gaz to allow himself to be bullied.

 

[Stapel]

I think we can declare Kurunaratne Starc's bunny now. Four in four.

It really was a daft shot, rather than a brilliant Starc delivery. But maybe that's what being someones bunny is about: Karunaratne might not have played such a waffy push, a foot outside the off stump, if it wasn't in his head that Starc is bowling.

 

[morgieb]

I feel Smith should bowl himself before Voges

Not in conditions like these IMO.

 

[Prince EWS]

was surpised to find Dimuth Kauratune has scored 3 test tons

His ton in NZ was of genuine class too.

 

[Stapel]

Sri Lanka's openers could be the most pointless people in all competitive sport.

That's unfair to a recently dropped Pakistan opener.

 

[morgieb]

His ton in NZ was of genuine class too.

Yeah his 18 months or so before the tour of England was actually pretty damn good. Has been pretty awful since then though.

 

[mr_mister]

Not in conditions like these IMO.

are you saying it's more suited to offies than leggies? Or what

Genuinely curious

 

[straw man]

His ton in NZ was of genuine class too.

seems to have a problem with pure pace afaics, though based on the negativity of SL fans towards him perhaps he's demonstrated some other flaws too

 

[morgieb]

are you saying it's more suited to offies than leggies? Or what

Genuinely curious

Kinda. Voges is a bit more solid of a spinner than Smith is and while Smith is possibly a better part-timer.....Voges I think could do an Elgar on this wicket.

 

[Prince EWS]

are you saying it's more suited to offies than leggies? Or what

It's more suited to accurate but typically innocuous spinners than inaccurate but occasionally dangerous ones because the pitch will make the former more dangerous anyway, but it won't make the latter more accurate.

 

[Motorwada]

It's more suited to accurate but typically innocuous spinners than inaccurate but occasionally dangerous ones because the pitch will make the former more dangerous anyway, but it won't make the latter more accurate.

Case in point, Sir Jadeja and his bowling average of 23.

 

[morgieb]

Jeez. Why is Voges still in the slips?

 

[Tec15]

Dropped! Heh.

 

[Howe_zat]

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[mr_mister]

It's more suited to accurate but typically innocuous spinners than inaccurate but occasionally dangerous ones because the pitch will make the former more dangerous anyway, but it won't make the latter more accurate.

nice way of explaining it


So Smith more likely to bowl an insanely good delivery out of nowhere and dismiss a Root or Williamson(of which the calibre SL don't have), but also more likely to leak 50 runs off 8 overs

got it