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

[Burgey]

The pitches were bowler friendly in the B-G and he took back to back tons from Bumrah. He just seems in a happy place

 

[Line and Length]

Comments regarding Labuschagne and comparing him to Marsh and Pope is an insult .... to the latter two.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Marnus has been stuck with way too long now. It's getting to the "It's sad" kind of territory

 

[GotSpin]

Marnus has been stuck with way too long now. It's getting to the "It's sad" kind of territory

Surely when Green machine comes back he’s gone

 

[Starfighter]

Wow that was close to the stumps

 

[Molehill]

The pitches were bowler friendly in the B-G and he took back to back tons from Bumrah. He just seems in a happy place

He's definitely in a better place, but they were both Day 1 tons where the bowling didn't offer a lot outside Bumrah. In the first he came in at 156-2 (even Marnus got runs) and in the 2nd Head smashed a ton with him. The Galle First Test was what you'd expect someone of his calibre to do given what others did as well. It also just exposes even further how poor Labuschagne has been in similar circumstances.

 

[Darwin Award]

.. India will have been happy knowing that at least after the Sydney test loss that all the World Test Championship permutations are now set & they can move on.

Had they needed Sri Lanka to win/draw in this series it would've made the players sick watching this from their telly seeing Sri Lanka offer meek resistance.

 

[govinda indian fan]

The pitches were bowler friendly in the B-G and he took back to back tons from Bumrah. He just seems in a happy place

Mcg ton came on road with platform set at 156/2. It is as useless as kohli ton at perth. That ton at gabba was great tho esp they way he survived bumrah and milked jadeja and reddy

 

[halba]

Surely when Green machine comes back he’s gone

Inglis is even good enough to permanently replace Labu. Green ahead of Inglis on seaming pitches though.

 

[govinda indian fan]

.. India will have been happy knowing that at least after the Sydney test loss that all the World Test Championship permutations are now set & they can move on.

Had they needed Sri Lanka to win/draw in this series it would've made the players sick watching this from their telly seeing them offer meek resistance.

As a indian dont give **** about wtc. Care more about England tour this summer

 

[Darwin Award]

He's definitely in a better place, but they were both Day 1 tons where the bowling didn't offer a lot outside Bumrah. In the first he came in at 156-2 (even Marnus got runs) and in the 2nd Head smashed a ton with him. The Galle First Test was what you'd expect someone of his calibre to do given what others did as well. It also just exposes even further how poor Labuschagne has been in similar circumstances.

That's true but also alot of times I really think that with Marnus scoring runs & having skittish Smith waiting around with the pads on so many times didn't help his mood either...

 

[Burgey]

.. India will have been happy knowing that at least after the Sydney test loss that all the World Test Championship permutations are now set & they can move on.

Had they needed Sri Lanka to win/draw in this series it would've made the players sick watching this from their telly seeing them offer meek resistance.

They could have solved that by playing better in the BG though

 

[govinda indian fan]

Sl bowling has been piss poor allowing smith to milk singles far cry from days of murali and herath

 

[Darwin Award]

As a indian dont give **** about wtc. Care more about England tour this summer

... That's easy to say when India have never won it.

The same way Indians didn't 'care' about test cricket conveniently in the 1980's and so on when they were getting beaten and all of a sudden when Australia's dominance ended and India racked up test records it soon became 'chic' again.

 

[Gob]

Smith is obviously a great player but he’s also one of the best players of less than the highest quality of bowlers ever

Think about when he plays BBL - man v kids

He has never bashed any minnows tbf. Unless you count England

 

[Gob]

Smith was getting impatient towards the end so break came at the right time for him. Think it's difficult to start on this so SL need which can lead to 2 or 3 easily.

 

[Briony]

The pitches were bowler friendly in the B-G and he took back to back tons from Bumrah. He just seems in a happy place

Think though he was protected quite well from Bumrah for large periods of the series due to when he came in and how often the great man could bowl. At times he showed vulnerability against good spells but luckily for him Head, and even Konstas in Melbourne assisted him. His stint as an opener showed him struggled against the new ball.

 

[govinda indian fan]

... That's easy to say when India have never won it.

The same way Indians didn't 'care' about test cricket conveniently in the 1980's and so on when they were getting beaten and all of a sudden when Australia's dominance ended and India racked up test records it soon became 'chic' again.

No i geniunly care about test cricket and dont give ass about wtc even if we reach final because my team doesn't prepare well for it only to lose. I give more importance to winning in aus/ eng/nz and about second point its true that most indian or Pakistani or lankan fans care more about white ball except some people like me who love test cricket passionatly over t20 crap

 

[Molehill]

He has never bashed any minnows tbf. Unless you count England

He bashed England when others couldn't. Can only imagine what the 2019 result would've been without him......

 

[quincywagstaff]

Top class partnership this. Went from match being relatively level to Oz in a commanding position in less than a session.