32nd Match - Australia v Sri Lanka (8th March 2015)

[nevermind]

Exact same as Clarke's one earlier, and umpires were consistent.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Doherty on - this has to be a big over

 

[Flem274*]

didn't mark taylor just say that's why it was given

generally the trend has been to nail bowlers for anything possible, and there's that often stupid benefit of the doubt to the batsman thing. if i were an SL fan i'd probably be fired up at that.

 

[Antihippy]

Malinga lost a bowled dismissal vs NZ with the EXACT same situation.. called a no-ball.. this is bull****.

Hey bring that up against the kiwis, not us.

 

[YorksLanka]

Benefit of the doubt in the bowler's favour. Kinda like Clarke's dismissal, so I guess this evens it up.

No with clarkes there was something visible behind the line, on this ,it was on the line=umpires??still hey oh! that's cricket I suppose..

 

[Spark]

generally the trend has been to nail bowlers for anything possible, and there's that often stupid benefit of the doubt to the batsman thing. if i were an SL fan i'd probably be fired up at that.

so long as it's consistent, i guess

 

[Prince EWS]

Well batted Sanga!

Not to take away from his innings, or any others in this match, but when will we have the discussion that's needed about over-preparation of wickets? I know Sydney is a drop-in pitch, which means the original characteristics of the traditional Sydney wicket are long gone, but is this seriously what we're up for now...pitches that see teams score almost 400 and offer sweet **** all for the bowlers? I know something came up about this during the summer series vs India, but whoever the boffins are who know **** all about cricket have decided wickets that do nothing for bowlers should be the norm for 'crowd entertainment'. It's ridiculous. I'd prefer to see a game like Aus vs NZ than this.

Maybe if this could be addressed, and the issue of wickets being prepared for the home team's advantage that play markedly differently to what they normally do, then cricket would improve as a spectacle overall.

I tend to think it's the fielding restrictions moreso than the pitches that makes games like this so possible. Teams aren't flying along at 7-8rpo for their whole innings; they've maintaining a good run rate while conserving wickets and then absolutely blasting away at the end because death bowling is so hard with only four out.

This wicket is good to bat on but I think with more balanced fielding restrictions it'd be a 300 par wicket rather than a 340 par one.. and I quite like 300 par games.

 

[Antihippy]

Why are we bowling Watson?

 

[Spark]

don't think watson should bowl again

 

[YorksLanka]

Shot laddy, smash the trash...

 

[Spikey]

reminded that if the selectors did indeed pick watson over marsh for his bowling, they screwed that decision up

 

[halba]

Shot laddy, smash the trash...

watson should only play if its a green wicket

 

[Daemon]

I tend to think it's the fielding restrictions moreso than the pitches that makes games like this so possible. Teams aren't flying along at 7-8rpo for their whole innings; they've maintaining a good run rate while conserving wickets and then absolutely blasting away at the end because death bowling is so hard with only four out.

This wicket is good to bat on but I think with more balanced fielding restrictions it'd be a 300 par wicket rather than a 340 par one.. and I quite like 300 par games.

Yeah Maxwell wouldn't be able to play the field that well if there were more outside the circle.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Can Chandi do a Maxwell?

 

[flibbertyjibber]

If Chandimal can keep this up for another 25 balls we may see a decent finish.

 

[Daemon]

chandigun!!!

 

[Spark]

why are we bowling our worst two bowlers in general

 

[morgieb]

What the hell......get Doherty/Watson off ffs.

 

[Swingpanzee]

modern bats etc.

This is kinda scary.

 

[Spikey]

A New (Little Sri Lankan) Hope?