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

[Kraken]

Slug would’ve caught it

 

[Starfighter]

Bugger. Who's McSweeney on the field for anyway?

 

[Coronis]

Sorry for the late response.

Would be curious where that ranks on the list of longest innings with only four (or fewer) bowlers used.

150+ overs with 4 bowlers - only checked instances down to 400+ runs.

172 overs* (426) Aus vs Eng Sydney 1951
167.5 overs (403) SA vs Pak Rawalpindi 1997
154 overs (454/6d) Aus vs Pak Sydney 1984
154 overs (645/6d) Aus vs SL Galle 2025
151.4 overs (404) Eng vs Aus Manchester 1981
150 overs (428) Ind vs Eng Bengalaru 1981

*129 8 ball overs

This must be the first time a team conceded 600 plus runs while only using four bowlers. Can't recall any other occasion personally

3 other teams have made 500+ runs against only 4 bowlers.

528 (149.4 overs) Aus vs Ind Adelaide 1981
516 (147.4 overs) Ind vs Pak Mohali 2005
500/7d (119 overs) Pak vs SL Lahore 1982

 

[Spark]

McSweeney is definitely a good gully fielder but man, chances like those remind you what a cheat code Green is in there.

 

[Spark]

172 overs* (426) Aus vs Eng Sydney 1951

Sounds like engrossing viewing this

 

[Spikey]

a zing bail fail is the game going to hell, but a normal bail fail? that's just fun for the whole family

 

[morgieb]

Not a zinger bail fail, but still another example of not being dislodged.

 

[Spark]

Who replaced the bails with zing bails in disguise

 

[Starfighter]

Looks like I've been beaten anyway

172 overs* (426) Aus vs Eng Sydney 1951
167.5 overs (403) SA vs Pak Rawalpindi 1997
154 overs (454/6d) Aus vs Pak Sydney 1984

I thought a match from the fifties or sixties might be a possibility, much more surprised at the one from 1997. I see there was no Aamir Sohail to turn his arm over.

 

[Kraken]

That’s sliding down surely

 

[Starfighter]

The looks like a shocking review. Not going within a cooee of the stumps.

 

[Son Of Coco]

That was always going down leg. Pretty poor review.

 

[Spark]

Don't think that's turned enough

 

[Kraken]

Jesus that’s a ****ing terrible review

 

[Starfighter]

What were they thinking?

 

[Spark]

Carey really should be nixing that

 

[cascade]

I swear Carey used to be better at reviews (save the occasional phantom noise).

 

[morgieb]

**** he really is turning into Boony isn't he.

 

[the big bambino]

Radio commentators make an interesting point

Play a t20 and you need 5 bowlers

Play a test and only use 4

Makes sense in a way. In T20 you don't need as much batting depth as you'd generally bank on 6 batsmen getting through 20 overs. But you need 5 bowlers to get your quotas. In tests you generally get better value out of a sixth batsmen than a 5th bowler. (Though I do like the 5 bowler option.)

Just on the earlier discussion about lbws, drs, bounce and line and the Kuhnemann shouts for lbw, I thought the wicket ball was too high but they badly misjudged the line on the lost review.

 

[Spark]

Nice bounce there