**Official** Australia in Sri Lanka Jan - Feb 2025

[Burgey]

If pitch is in the middle of the roped off area, then it seems to have a lot of grass?

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It hasn’t been cut yet. It’ll be bald as a badger come game day, with. Couple of craters at either end as is the subcontinental way to make things competitive

 

[Burgey]

With that green pitch, could Sri Lanka have pulled off the biggest bluff in history and will hit Australia with pace knowing Cummins and Hazlewood are missing?

No. They aren’t that bright

 

[Spikey]

Why the Sri Lanka series could be the start of more free cricket on TV

Australia may be about to enter a new era of overseas Test cricket on free-to-air television as Seven prepares to broadcast the Sri Lanka series starting this week, a harbinger of future bidding for matches in India and elsewhere.

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On one level this series was expedient by Seven, given the late January/early February timeslot well clear of football. Australia have not played a Test match overseas this early in the year since January 1970, during a tour of Apartheid South Africa.

But those close to the network insist that it is part of wider play to get more cricket onto its television and digital platforms, based on booming audiences for the World Test Championship final in 2023 and then for this summer’s India series.

Seven now views these series as commercially attractive for the right price, and will weigh up their timezones, calendar slots and potential advertising revenue accordingly.

 

[the big bambino]

With that green pitch, could Sri Lanka have pulled off the biggest bluff in history and will hit Australia with pace knowing Cummins and Hazlewood are missing?

They might play themselves as that would bring Boland right into contention.

 

[Prince EWS]

They might play themselves as that would bring Boland right into contention.

Australia's batsmen would be much less uncomfortable with that sort of pitch than Sri Lanka's too.

 

[TheJediBrah]

With that green pitch, could Sri Lanka have pulled off the biggest bluff in history and will hit Australia with pace knowing Cummins and Hazlewood are missing?

Haha just joking around, 0% chance of it actually happening. Would be incredible tactics if they did though