***Official*** Australia in England (The Ashes)

[FaaipDeOiad]

Clarke's 8th goes for just two!

66 off 66 the requirement now. Surely Lee bowls if he's fit. Ponting was probably bowling Clarke to switch Lee's end. Clarke has two left and will need to bowl at least one, Lee can bowl until close and Kasprowicz has 4 in hand.

 

[aussie]

reminds me of this match in sydney !

Sri Lanka innings (50 overs maximum)
R M B 4 6
MS Atapattu run out (Ponting) 101 178 124 5 0
*ST Jayasuriya b Watson 122 146 105 12 4
PA de Silva b Watson 13 16 15 1 0
DPMD Jayawardene not out 37 54 38 2 0
RP Arnold st Gilchrist b Symonds 0 3 1 0 0
+KC Sangakkara c Maher b Bichel 25 26 20 2 0
WPUJC Vaas not out 5 8 5 0 0
Extras (lb 12, w 20, nb 8) 40
Total (5 wickets, 50 overs, 218 mins) 343

DNB: HP Tillakaratne, CRD Fernando, M Muralitharan, PW Gunaratne.

FoW: 1-237 (Jayasuriya, 33.4 ov), 2-267 (de Silva, 37.6 ov),
3-283 (Atapattu, 41.2 ov), 4-284 (Arnold, 41.4 ov),
5-329 (Sangakkara, 47.6 ov).

Bowling O M R W
Lee 7 0 41 0 (2nb, 3w)
Bichel 10 0 70 1 (2nb, 5w)
Watson 10 0 72 2 (1nb, 1w)
Symonds 9 0 50 1 (2w)
Hogg 9 0 75 0 (3nb)
Martyn 5 0 23 0

Australia innings (target: 344 runs from 50 overs) R M B 4 6
+AC Gilchrist b Vaas 6 3 3 1 0
ML Hayden c Jayawardene b Fernando 35 67 39 3 0
*RT Ponting c Tillakaratne b Gunaratne 15 22 16 2 0
DR Martyn b Jayasuriya 40 94 69 4 0
MG Bevan c Tillakaratne b Jayasuriya 41 62 51 3 0
A Symonds c Tillakaratne b Muralitharan 4 12 9 0 0
B Lee b Jayasuriya 20 33 22 0 0
JP Maher c Jayawardene b Jayasuriya 15 27 27 1 0
SR Watson not out 35 40 35 3 0
GB Hogg st Sangakkara b Muralitharan 4 10 7 0 0
AJ Bichel c Sangakkara b Gunaratne 28 33 24 2 1
Extras (lb 12, w 4, nb 5) 21
Total (all out, 49.3 overs, 208 mins) 264

FoW: 1-6 (Gilchrist, 0.3 ov), 2-35 (Ponting, 5.4 ov),
3-78 (Hayden, 14.3 ov), 4-143 (Martyn, 28.3 ov),
5-150 (Bevan, 30.3 ov), 6-152 (Symonds, 31.3 ov),
7-188 (Maher, 38.5 ov), 8-188 (Lee, 38.6 ov),
9-201 (Hogg, 41.3 ov), 10-264 (Bichel, 49.3 ov).

Bowling O M R W
Vaas 6 0 29 1 (2w)
Gunaratne 8.3 0 54 2 (1w)
Fernando 9 0 46 1 (5nb, 1w)
de Silva 6 0 40 0
Muralitharan 10 1 44 2
Jayasuriya 10 1 39 4

how mate???

 

[andyc]

66 off 66. this is getting interesting

 

[aussie]

Clarke's 8th goes for just two!

66 off 66 the requirement now. Surely Lee bowls if he's fit.

thats right, Lee should surely be brought back now

 

[Adamc]

Clarke's 8th goes for just two!

66 off 66 the requirement now. Surely Lee bowls if he's fit. Ponting was probably bowling Clarke to switch Lee's end. Clarke has two left and will need to bowl at least one, Lee can bowl until close and Kasprowicz has 4 in hand.

He has to bowl this over if they're going to get ten out of him. Watson's continuing though, not sure what's going on.

 

[marc71178]

F*k yeh i got it exactly rite.^^^^^

Well done - considering you predicted it when he'd faced about 66 it's astonishing how you got it right.

 

[King_Ponting]

Watson takes blackwell = Australia win

 

[Barney Rubble]

Watson gets Blackwell! Now this is getting very interesting......

 

[andyc]

watson bowls blackwell

 

[marc71178]

Oviously this pitch is as flat as a tac. Playing on a road they must be

Don't remember too many of those comments in the first innings of the game.

 

[Adamc]

Watson gets Blackwell, fair enough.

 

[King_Ponting]

Well done - considering you predicted it when he'd faced about 66 it's astonishing how you got it right.

Yeh well i had a 5 ball range to work with. Lucky guess

 

[FaaipDeOiad]

Watson! Great comeback.

 

[tooextracool]

I suppose an ODI is like a CD single - has all the best bits, whereas the Test is like an album - it's still got the best bits, but has a few bits of lower quality.

Overall, I've bought over 200 albums, but only 1 single...

the other way around for me in terms of albums and singles.
but as far as ODI cricket is concerned, ive gotten so incredibly bored of it, that ive given up watching most of it, except for the england games of course.

 

[King_Ponting]

Don't remember too many of those comments in the first innings of the game.

didnt make too many posts during the first innings of the game

 

[Legglancer]

how mate???

Sanath's and attapattus opening partnaship was similar to smith and Sanaths .... it almost bought a tear to my eye's !

 

[Barney Rubble]

Jamie Hildreth is a very useful player, it's not over yet - a chance for Hildreth to prove his massive potential against big opposition.

 

[marc71178]

It was his big chance to impress too, the poor fellow. Just gotta query whether his bowling is suited to the One Day format, just a bit samey - lets the batsmen get into a rhythm?

Well his career record is worse than just ordinary.

 

[King_Ponting]

15 members all on the one topic.... good stuff

 

[Barney Rubble]

Well it's a thrilling match, I'm not surprised it's drawing a cyber-crowd......