*Official* Sri Lanka Tour of Australia 2019

[TheJediBrah]

Sounds like the Sri Lankan Test team.

quality

 

[Victor Ian]

Sounds like the Sri Lankan Test team.

I was just admiring your avatar when it hit me hard that there will NEVER be a player like Boon again in test cricket. What a ****ing legend. I watched him from the early days being an opener with Marsh to the days he blossomed into Boonie and owned the number 3 spot for Australia. I'm going to go and indulge on some Boonie on youtube!

 

[Top_Cat]

Anyone know why Stoinis gave Renshaw a serve last night in the BBL game? Maybe there's more to it as far as why he keep missing out in the Test side, **** in a few hats or something.

 

[mr_mister]

What did he say?

 

[Red]

"In a perfect world you've got someone who can bowl medium pace," Langer said. "Marnus can bowl some legspin. There's people who can do it. But to be honest there aren't too many teams around the world that have that luxury. You've got to be able to be picked on one of the disciplines alone and that's a great challenge for all of the allrounders in the country."

Langer is SOOO into Labuschagne, isn't he?

****.

 

[Burgey]

I can absolutely see why they look at Labuschagne and think he’ll end up a decent test player. I reckon they see the technical basics and most of all the temperament of a test player in him.

But I don’t think we are in a sufficiently strong place to be picking project players to bat three or four.

Stoinis has probably missed out on the test side before this season because his fc numbers have been complete junk. Though I have little doubt he is a complete ****.

 

[Cow]

As an Englishman.. im hoping for more runs from Harris and Head... hopefully lock in their places for The Ashes.

 

[the big bambino]

Chameera out with an ankle injury and he'll Keep Kumara company on the way home. SL have now lost 3 of their top 4 pacemen and their best AR. In their own way as depleted as Australia of their full strength.

 

[Cow]

I was just admiring your avatar when it hit me hard that there will NEVER be a player like Boon again in test cricket. What a ****ing legend. I watched him from the early days being an opener with Marsh to the days he blossomed into Boonie and owned the number 3 spot for Australia. I'm going to go and indulge on some Boonie on youtube!

Aaron Finch is a about 3 months on the beers away from being as fat as Boon.

I remember Boon being quite a slow scorer... difficult to get out rather than a stylish batsman.. Pujara with a belly. Would have thought guys like Jones and M Waugh would have been emptied the bars more than Boon (spectators not beers). Good fielder too.

 

[stephen]

Chameera out with an ankle injury and he'll Keep Kumara company on the way home. SL have now lost 3 of their top 4 pacemen and their best AR. In their own way as depleted as Australia of their full strength.

That's not good. Honestly this could be the single worst Sri Lankan side to tour our shores since the 80s. And I don't remember them touring in the 80s.

Star power alone is no longer there. On the last tour we at least had Sangakkara to headline the tour but this time around there's no big batsmen or bowlers that can draw crowds.

 

[Red]

Aaron Finch is a about 3 months on the beers away from being as fat as Boon.

I remember Boon being quite a slow scorer... difficult to get out rather than a stylish batsman.. Pujara with a belly. Would have thought guys like Jones and M Waugh would have been emptied the bars more than Boon (spectators not beers). Good fielder too.

Boon had plenty of style:

 

[quincywagstaff]

That's not good. Honestly this could be the single worst Sri Lankan side to tour our shores since the 80s. And I don't remember them touring in the 80s.

Star power alone is no longer there. On the last tour we at least had Sangakkara to headline the tour but this time around there's no big batsmen or bowlers that can draw crowds.

The Sri Lankan side that toured here in 1989 was definitely tougher and better than this one.

The 1988 side though that played a one-off Test was pretty limp opposition, although probably no worse than how they performed at the Gabba.

 

[Burgey]

That's not good. Honestly this could be the single worst Sri Lankan side to tour our shores since the 80s. And I don't remember them touring in the 80s.

Star power alone is no longer there. On the last tour we at least had Sangakkara to headline the tour but this time around there's no big batsmen or bowlers that can draw crowds.

Yeah it’s never good when teams lose their better players via injury. Got a lot more strategy for them than I do Australia. Our problems are mostly self-inflicted.

 

[Prince EWS]

He [Chameera] actually bowled decently in the practice game too, so maybe he's finally on the way back up to the "almost Test standard on a bouncy pitch" bowler he was before he got injured.

Cue another injury.

Check.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Got a lot more strategy for them than I do Australia.

sympathy?

 

[Burgey]

Yeah. Auto-corrected to that for some bizarre reason.

 

[Burgey]

Boon had plenty of style:

This was the time Boonie was the form bat going around. It's also the famous "Waugh Fails" headline test.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Yeah. Auto-corrected to that for some bizarre reason.

Tell me about it. Autocorrect often changes my cricketweb posts from respectful contributions in a discussion to overly sarcastic/borderline abusive insults

 

[Burgey]

For me it seems to often work the other way

 

[mr_mister]

Stoinis the likely 12th man lol. Some meme pages are going to have a field day if our batsmen fail