20th Match - Sri Lanka v Australia

[vcs]

Carey is good with the gloves isn't he? That thing was wobbling and rising.

Pretty average keeping to spin, saw him miss a straightforward stumping in the last game.

 

[vcs]

Australia keep winning even though they've had dodgy periods in every match. If they somehow manage to win this World Cup, I'll probably stop watching this tournament haha.

 

[trundler]

Every key member pitched in today for Australia. Except Warner.

 

[Howe_zat]

Mitchell Starc remains a party pooper I see.

 

[Howe_zat]

I’m so glad that Nuwan Pradeep’s batting is still what it is. It means there’s something in internationals where I can genuinely say ‘I could’ve done that.’

 

[Flem274*]

for someone who was once woeful at odis karunaratne sure is carrying this team now

 

[Raghav]

Good game for Udana, put some brakes to aus innings. SL will need to get their batting sorted, especially after the start they had - this game should've been pushed deep but they failed.

 

[stephen]

Starc is now 12th on the list of world cup wicket takers with the lowest average and strike rate of anyone on the list.

 

[morgieb]

Really bad innings management from Sri Lanka. The fact that Maxwell bowled his 10 and went under 5 is disgraceful.

 

[Daemon]

There was an air of inevitability about this middle order collapse. Just lacks any cake whatsoever.

 

[the big bambino]

Is this type of racist filth allowed on these forums? There is nothing funny about it.
It might just be funny to a racist nation like Australia but not to other people.

A reference to a South African's comments about Sri Lankans means Australia is racist! This idiotic haste to invent an offence to express your own bigotry is a real CW treat.

Yes. Typically ignorant bogan comment.

Its always good to make a comment about racism by dealing in stereotypes.

 

[Burgey]

fyi

Charge your phone mate.

 

[Bahnz]

There’s something off with DWL if it would award Sri Lanka the game with 95/1 after 20. I was following last night and even when Sri Lanka were 100/0 after 13 , all it took was a casual glance at their middle order to know Australia were still heavy favourites.

 

[GoodAreasShane]

Seems like Sri Lanka completely bottled it to me. At 0-87 off 10 there were in a commanding position, turned it off and switched over to Le Mans expecting SL to polish off our score in under 40

 

[Spikey]

250 is a lot of runs

 

[GoodAreasShane]

True, it's more just how the whole team just looked shell shocked and unsure of how to stem the flow of runs. It's not often that a team can be reeled back after making such a commanding start to a run chase

 

[mr_mister]

I think it was always obvious once Perera and Dimuth fell it was curtains. Have been their strongest two bats for a while now

 

[Maximas]

I think it was always obvious once Perera and Dimuth fell it was curtains. Have been their strongest two bats for a while now

With Matthews and Mendis at the crease and Thisara in the sheds I had hope, but Dimuth going when he did after crawling through the 80s and 90s was a hammer blow too

 

[Prince EWS]

WI and SL performances have been very aggravating. We've talked of how the rain has ruined things and how the format is going to create a bunch of dead games in the coming week but that is only because of how lacking in game sense both teams have been. If they were any good they could still get on the comeback trail and make a dent on the points table; they have games against Ind, SA, Eng, NZ, BD, AFG remaining. That these future matchups inspire no hope in fans is due to their incompetence and nothing else.

Both teams have actually been slightly less **** than I was expecting tbh.

 

[Arachnodouche]

^Is the Edit function not quite right on cell phones? The screen opens and just as I'm editing it reloads and deletes my original comment.