***Official*** Australia in Sri Lanka

[centurymaker]

18.3
Herath to Clarke, no run, Arm ball! Review for lbw? No they don't go for the review. That was mighty close. Clarke pressed forward, played for the turn, this one went straight, hit him in front of off. That was plumb. Umpire Kettleborough says not out. Dilshan thinks about it, but doesn't challenge the call

according to cricinfo it was plumb.

 

[Spark]

Cricinfo is stupid. Obviously outside the line on Hawkeye.

 

[Burgey]

Not a bad session, for a shortened one. Two down and 70+ on the board. Game moving along nicely early on.

 

[benchmark00]

Herath and Randiv are such boring spin bowlers. Bring back my man Mendis.

 

[Burgey]

This might be an obvious question, but I only saw the last little bit of the session. Is this the ground that was wrecked in the tsunami?

 

[social]

Congratulations to Nathan Lyon on becoming the least deserving recipient of a test cap in Australian cricket history

What a ****ing joke!

 

[benchmark00]

This might be an obvious question, but I only saw the last little bit of the session. Is this the ground that was wrecked in the tsunami?

Yeah.

 

[Nate]

Congratulations to Nathan Lyon on becoming the least deserving recipient of a test cap in Australian cricket history

What a ****ing joke!

I'm sure we can debate this back through years and years of previous Test Players, but why bother - Michael Beer? How is he more deserving?

 

[Spikey]

yeah beer didn't have 11 T20 wickets. 11

 

[NasserFan207]

Beer definitely more of a pisstake, though I still don't get why these guys are preferred over Hauritz

 

[Spark]

Beer definitely more of a pisstake, though I still don't get why these guys are preferred over Hauritz

Injured.

 

[Prince EWS]

Beer definitely more of a pisstake, though I still don't get why these guys are preferred over Hauritz

Hauritz is injured.

 

[NasserFan207]

Still better

 

[Spikey]

yeah but see the most concerning thing about the tour squad was that hildtich never said "sadly our first choice Nathan Hauritz is injured.".....

 

[Spark]

Oooh fortunate.

 

[Spark]

How does one not give those?

 

[NasserFan207]

Absolutely plumb. Very poor decision (originally)

 

[Spark]

Odd stuff from Clarke. Propping forward to those usually isn't his style.

 

[Howe_zat]

Morning all. What'd I miss?

Edit: Clarke out. Is the wicket turning already?

 

[Outswinger@Pace]

Mr. Kettle, my grandmother with her 82-year-old vision would have given that out. Long live the UDRS system. How biased are most umpires against bowlers in general and SLA in particular!