*Official* Australia in Sri Lanka 2016

[Dan Jamson]

Sri Lanka bowling really poorly.

 

[morgieb]

Brendan Julian calling Mitchell Marsh Shaun :facepalm:

 

[Adders]

Yeah, back in favour of the Aussies right now I reckon.

 

[morgieb]

Yeah, back in favour of the Aussies right now I reckon.

Nah. Not much batting after this, one wicket and they'll be back in business.

They're bowling pretty poorly though.

Good knock from Smith. A pity from the neutral POV though that it ruins Mendis's achievement slightly

 

[OverratedSanity]

Poor from SL today. Will be a huge innings from Smith if he takes them home.

 

[Top_Cat]

Herath's loop is just so great these days.

 

[Top_Cat]

Pitch isn't really ripping, have to say. If Oz balls this up, they can't blame the deck, really.

 

[morgieb]

This looks close.

 

[vcs]

This is great stuff, thoroughly enjoyable when your team isn't involved.

India won a match in Sri Lanka from a very similar situation 5-6 years back through a Laxman special, one of my favourite Test wins. Can see Smith emulating him here.

EDIT : Marsh gone, he looked really good.

 

[Adders]

Thats out I recon

 

[Adders]

Get in there!!!

 

[Gnske]

What's this, reviews being used properly?

 

[Shady Slim]

unless he had thought there was an edge that was a horrid call from ump ravi

these ads for FOGG body spray are also made really weird by the fact i don't understand what the people are saying

 

[morgieb]

Obviously this could backfire on me but when we lose I think Smith deserves a lot of the blame. He doesn't play that shot in the first innings and our chase looks a lot smaller. By far our most comfortable against spin.

 

[Top_Cat]

I can only assume the umpire wasn't sure about whether it was pad or bat first because, on the line, that was always dead.

 

[morgieb]

unless he had thought there was an edge that was a horrid call from ump ravi

these ads for FOGG body spray are also made really weird by the fact i don't understand what the people are saying

It did have bat but it was pad first. Can see why he thought it was bat first.

 

[Prince EWS]

these ads for FOGG body spray are also made really weird by the fact i don't understand what the people are saying

I used to be able to recite one of them off by heart despite not understanding any of the words I was saying.

 

[Jono]

Nevill, time to step up bloke

 

[Shady Slim]

It did have bat but it was pad first. Can see why he thought it was bat first.

yeah that was my thought too

the comms didn't say why it was given not out at the time though so i wasn't sure why though

 

[Adders]

The game is on this one fore sure.