*Official* Australia in Sri Lanka 2016

[LegionOfBrad]

They'll be chasing min 300. It's already far too many.

 

[mr_mister]

I know we've already proven we're rubbish @ playing spin this series but is only day 2. The 4th innings will most likely commence no later than day 3 so the pitch won't be day 5 level of difficulty. A lot of the wickets in the first innings were **** shots not unplayable balls


I'm not ruling us out of this yet

 

[Groundking]

I'd be amazed if Australia chased down 250, let alone the 350 or do it could be they have to chase

 

[Burgey]

Expect Australia to chase down 250 plus in the second innings.

Australia could have twenty wickets and wouldn't chase this down.

 

[Gnske]

lol "**** me you guys are lucky" picked up on stump cam


So would that have been Lyon or Nevill I dunno what these guy's voices sound like

How low the team has plummeted, when we have a wicketkeeper so placid we actually have to guess who is sledging the opposition.

 

[Top_Cat]

otoh I'd have given Starc a quick burst straight after lunch to see if SL might continue to collapse against him. If that didn't happen, there's no need for him to bowl again, and certainly not if SL are still batting tomorrow.

Or, you could take the bit of good fortune and bowling from the last hour before lunch, bowl your other options and still have your main strike weapon available to bowl them out today instead of busting a gut hoping he causes a collapse then all but guaranteeing you're bowling tomorrow.

 

[mr_mister]

Or it takes is 2 of our top 5 to ton up and we know they're all capable of pulling huge scores out of nowhere

yes I know in different conditions

I still have faith

 

[mr_mister]

How low the team has plummeted, when we have a wicketkeeper so placid we actually have to guess who is sledging the opposition.

pretty much why I'm asking. Can't imagine Nevill running his mouth. Can't really imagine Gaz either he seems like such a nice bloke but more of a larrkin than Nevill

 

[bigmitch]

ok these edges can stop

 

[LegionOfBrad]

Or it takes is 2 of our top 5 to ton up and we know they're all capable of pulling huge scores out of nowhere

yes I know in different conditions

I still have faith

They don't seem to know how to score runs against top class spin. Let alone keep their wickets in tact.

 

[NUFAN]

For us to win, everyone just needs to bat how they've batted so far this series*

Warner 43
Burns 32
Khawaja 55
Smith 90
Voges 67
Marsh 83
Nevill 11
Starc 11
Lyon 29
Hazlewood 5
Holland 0 not out

*Just don't get out as often.

 

[Shady Slim]

these buzzcuts the australian pacers have are silly

 

[Gnske]

pretty much why I'm asking. Can't imagine Nevill running his mouth. Can't really imagine Gaz either he seems like such a nice bloke but more of a larrkin than Nevill

The problem is when he does speak you can't recognize that voice like Haddin, Starc's low-teste'd boom, Warner's husky alcohol-deprived muttering or Gaz's slurred bogan drawl.

Just sounds pointdexter-y if I had to nail it down, guess its better than having the (other) Victorian eunuch embarass himself constantly.

 

[mr_mister]

if everyone just scored their average we'd probs win. We just need to not suck dont have to be super godly

 

[wpdavid]

Or, you could take the bit of good fortune and bowling from the last hour before lunch, bowl your other options and still have your main strike weapon available to bowl them out today instead of busting a gut hoping he causes a collapse then all but guaranteeing you're bowling tomorrow.

True. Obviously I'm doing this with hindsight as the spinners did next to nothing after lunch, but I'm also taking the match situation into account whereby Aus needed to bowl out SL for something silly - certainly well under 100 - to stay in the match, and the likeliest guys to do that are the quicks. If that didn't happen in the 30 - 45 minutes after lunch, then Starc and Hazelwood could spend the rest of today and maybe some of tomorrow working on their tans in the outfield, as it really wouldn't matter anyway. But I suppose Smith needs to have a mindset where he actually trusts his spinners to do a job rather than tacitly admitting that he doesn't. And also that he'd back his batsmen to chase down more than 275 rather than going for bust to set a lower target. So I'm coming at this from a different perspective to him, maybe.

 

[mr_mister]

50 + 50 + 50 + 60 + 90


our top 5 has a par of 300 right there

 

[bigmitch]

starc again...that angry roar with the thug life buzzcut.....been a while since we had a decent fast bowler, pity the rest of them suck now!

 

[Black_Warrior]

Australia could have twenty wickets and wouldn't chase this down.

How much above 250 would you expect them to chase down?

The reason I am saying this is because both Warner and Smith are quality batsmen and have demonstrated ability to bat well in these conditions. If Warner clicks and gets a Warneresque hundred, they can chase around 300.. And still feel there is a big hundred from Smith coming in this series. Don't know about the rest though.

 

[Starfighter]

Yesssssss! Be great if Starc can get ten in the match.

 

[NUFAN]

50 + 50 + 50 + 60 + 90


our top 5 has a par of 300 right there

Giving Burns a 50 and Voges a 90 is extremely generous.