**Official** Australia in Sri Lanka

[age_master]

hehe old fatman, always got a good laugh from his waddle between wickets

 

[Linda]

Well, then I hope Gilly and Hayden smash the bowlers to India to shut him up...

 

[mavric41]

Well, then I hope Gilly and Hayden smash the bowlers to India to shut him up...

0/100 off 18

they are doing their best

 

[mavric41]

hehe old fatman, always got a good laugh from his waddle between wickets

The only guy to call for a runner because he was too fat to run between wickets.

 

[Salamuddin]

Gilchrist Out.

c Attapattu b Chandana

 

[Salamuddin]

hayden gone -- run out by atapattu --- Aus 2/115 after 23

 

[Ferd]

Current Scorecard


Australia innings (50 overs maximum) R B 4 6
+AC Gilchrist c Atapattu b Chandana 66 64 9 0
ML Hayden run out (Atapattu) 40 57 3 0
*RT Ponting c Dilshan b Jayasuriya 58 82 4 0
DR Martyn c & b Chandana 27 38 1 0
MG Bevan not out 14 20 1 0
A Symonds not out 5 5 0 0
Extras (lb 3, w 4, nb 1) 8
Total (4 wickets, 44.1 overs) 218

To Bat: MJ Clarke, GB Hogg, B Lee, JN Gillespie, BA Williams.

FoW: 1-104 (Gilchrist, 18.6 ov), 2-114 (Hayden, 22.1 ov),
3-189 (Martyn, 38.2 ov), 4-207 (Ponting, 41.6 ov).

Martyn 27 off 38. Not really going as quick as I would've liked...

 

[SquidAU]

Well, hopefully Symonds can pick up the run rate before the 50 overs is up.....currently, Symonds is on 14 of f10 and Bevan 18 off 25 and Aussies are 4/233 after 45.5 overs.

 

[Ferd]

Australia 239/5, Partnership of 32
MG Bevan st Kaluwitharana b Muralitharan 21 (31b 1x4 0x6)
A Symonds 16* (13b 1x4) M Muralitharan 9.2-1-30-1 (2w)

 

[Ferd]

Clarke too...

Australia 239/6, Partnership of 0
MJ Clarke lbw b Muralitharan 0 (3b 0x4 0x6)
A Symonds 16* (13b 1x4) M Muralitharan 9.5-1-30-2 (2w)

 

[Neil Pickup]

Clarke's mortal?

 

[Ferd]

I dont think much of clarke as a one day player...

Australia innings (50 overs maximum) R B 4 6
+AC Gilchrist c Atapattu b Chandana 66 64 9 0
ML Hayden run out (Atapattu) 40 57 3 0
*RT Ponting c Dilshan b Jayasuriya 58 82 4 0
DR Martyn c & b Chandana 27 38 1 0
MG Bevan st Kaluwitharana b Muralitharan 21 31 1 0
A Symonds not out 37 20 4 1
MJ Clarke lbw b Muralitharan 0 3 0 0
GB Hogg not out 2 6 0 0
Extras (lb 5, w 5, nb 1) 11
Total (6 wickets, 50 overs) 262

DNB: B Lee, JN Gillespie, BA Williams.

FoW: 1-104 (Gilchrist, 18.6 ov), 2-114 (Hayden, 22.1 ov),
3-189 (Martyn, 38.2 ov), 4-207 (Ponting, 41.6 ov),
5-239 (Bevan, 47.2 ov), 6-239 (Clarke, 47.5 ov).

Bowling O M R W
Vaas 3 0 19 0 (1w)
Kulasekara 3 0 18 0 (1nb)
Dharmasena 10 0 49 0
Dilshan 5 0 28 0
Muralitharan 10 2 30 2 (2w)
Chandana 10 0 47 2
Jayasuriya 9 0 66 1 (2w)

Sri Lanka team:
*MS Atapattu, ST Jayasuriya, +RS Kaluwitharana, KC Sangakkara,
DPMD Jayawardene, TM Dilshan, UDU Chandana, WPUJC Vaas,
M Muralitharan, HDPK Dharmasena, KMDN Kulasekara.

 

[SquidAU]

Clarke's mortal?

It seems so......

But Symonds gets a six of the last delivery of the innings.....20 runs of the last over!!! Australia 6/262. Symonds continuing his run of form, much to the disappointment of Richard!

 

[Ferd]

Bevan + Martyn are not going too well. I think perhaps that Bevan might be a bit past it. Not a real good VB Series. I think Katich would be worth a try in the ODI's

 

[SquidAU]

Bevan + Martyn are not going too well. I think perhaps that Bevan might be a bit past it. Not a real good VB Series. I think Katich would be worth a try in the ODI's

Bevan will bounce back, just you wait! Martyn did ok but if I were him, I would be watching my form with all the other players (Katich) just waiting for someone to drop out!

 

[Linda]

Bevan will bounce back, just you wait! Martyn did ok but if I were him, I would be watching my form with all the other players (Katich) just waiting for someone to drop out!

What, so Bevan will bounce back but Martyn's spot is practically up for grabs? :rolleyes:
I don't know why I'm surprised, people were crying for his head after 2 VB series matches...

 

[Linda]

Jayasuriya is gone after 2.3 overs with the score at 12... he was in a mix up and was run out by Gilly.

Sweet

 

[Linda]

And now Ponting pulls off miraculous-run-out (or so it says...). Kaluwitharana's gone.

The arm is back, my friend.

 

[Linda]

That's flukey, Gillespie gets his 100th ODI wicket (Attapatu), and in the same match the Binger is going for his 150th.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Hogg takes four wickets from six balls - not bad (OK, so they were Vaas, Dharmasena, Kulasekara, Murali)! Ends with 9.3-1-41-5 as Aus win by 84 runs.

Think SL have more to show us than this...funny that Vaas only got three overs, did they think it was no point using seamers? Also, I doubt they'll collapse like this again - only the fourth wicket went for over 20, and 8 of 10 partnerships were less than 12.