quincywagstaff
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Top class partnership this. Went from match being relatively level to Oz in a commanding position in less than a session.
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**Official** Australia in Sri Lanka Jan - Feb 2025
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Starfighter
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We still need to get a lead, and considering we need to bat last on this it needs to be a pretty big one.
TheJediBrah
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Runs are coming way too easily
Starfighter
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He still missed the ball, but that was a good bit of anticipation by Kusal
Briony
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Unsurprisingly because SL is barely test standard.
Starfighter
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This often seems to be the case in tests in Asia these days. Even if the ball doesn't turn as much when new it behaves less predictably and comes off the surface quicker.
There was a time when people would rub the new ball on the ground to remove the shine (which was actually legal up until 1980) and back in the seventies India would open with whatever medium pace they had on hand (like Gavaskar would trundle a couple of overs). Makes me think teams were missing a trick all those years.
Molehill
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You'd think the SL spinners would cause more trouble on this, but they've been totally out bowled by Lyon/Kuhnemann so far.
Starfighter
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The funny thing being that I thought neither of them bowled that well yesterday and they were poor today.
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They nearly made the WTC final. Better than England.
The_CricketUmpire
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Yep. Exactly. All this series is - a stat paddling excercise for the Aussie batters and bowlers.
Molehill
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Actually below England now in the WTC Table, and miles below if you take out over rate penalties.
But I thought they played some decent cricket when they Toured England last Summer, they're not showing it now.
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much stronger opposition tbf
Starfighter
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They're part of the game though. It's unfair on the opposition that your bowlers are getting a good rest by only bowling 78 overs in a day and the batsmen lose their rhythm with all the conferencing, plus the field settings are theoretically better by ignoring the time constraints other teams try to meet.
Starfighter
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More to the point, I think it's that they're usually bowling 81-82 km/h whereas Lyon and Kuhnemann are almost always over 86 km/h, often low 90s. Our batsmen would much less comfortable playing the sweep and reverse sweep if they were bowling faster (see, for example, the sweepathon collapse against Jadeja in 2023.)
Pieris has bowled a lot better than last test. Though with that action and release, he won't turn that ball an inch on pitches pitches that aren't dust bowls. Conversely Jayasuriya has been bad.
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Starfighter
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That looked mighty close to me
Well, turns out he's hit it
Well, turns out he's hit it
TheJediBrah
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Missing leg, or umps call at best
