*Official* Australia in Sri Lanka 2016

[TheJediBrah]

The real talking point in this series for me is how much better does O'Keefe have to perform than Lyon in order to take his place

 

[Red]

I don't think Lyon's place should be questioned based on S.O'Keefe taking one bag in a tour game.

Lyon has taken almost 4 wickets a test over 50 tests. O'Keefe takes less than that in FC cricket.

 

[OverratedSanity]

It's not even funny how SL is gonna get destroyed this series. And for the foreseeable future.

Yep. Would be very surprised if they manage to win a test,

SLC probably know this, which is why they've pre-emptively tried to paint Murali as a traitor to the motherland and the reason for their series loss.

 

[morgieb]

Interesting Sri Lanka picking 3 spinners. You won't want to chase much in the 4th innings here I suspect....

 

[morgieb]

Them at $9 is good value, IMO. Australia can be pretty dire on turning wickets at times and Sri Lanka have won the toss....

 

[Peaceful5583]

Does not matter who win toss here because last year or so Pakistan successfully chasing 382 in the 4 th innings by loosing only 3 wicket.Dhanajya Silva and Sandakan début for Lanka but ROSHAN Silva missed selection

As expected both Lyon and O'Keefe playing in 11 member team but Shaun marsh missed selection.later on thunderstorm in forcast
Srilanka winning toss and bats first

 

[morgieb]

Great start this.

 

[morgieb]

No HotSpot or Snicko makes me sad. Can see why though.

 

[Peaceful5583]

Zampa improved under MS 's captaincy in IPL, he is completely changed and successful bowler in limited over cricket but he need to proves himself in multi day games (domestic Australian season) before walking into test team , presently he is star bowler in CPL 2016 also 20/20

 

[Gnske]

Behold the standard of New South Welshman fielding

 

[morgieb]

Jeez. How do you misfield that?

 

[adub]

Behold the standard of New South Welshman fielding

Cause you're gonna get plenty of chances to enjoy the standard of New South Welshmen bowling.

 

[morgieb]

Guess he made up for it

 

[Gnske]

Well at least he can bowl to hacks.

 

[adub]

Well at least he can bowl to hacks.

How can you tell? He hasn't played FC against Qld for almost 4 years.

 

[Spikey]

now to keep an eye on shane warne's twitter

 

[Spikey]

i don't think BJ understood SOK's "I've got the one that turns" joke

 

[ajdude]

starc and hazlewood have seriously rude heads at the moment.

 

[Gnske]

I see the Don has been working on his catching

 

[ajdude]

haha spikey see how the NRL are trying to rip off Fox Footy's retro round? so good.