*Official* Sri Lanka Tour of Australia 2019

[Maximas]

Vishwa is reminding me of Welegadara at Hobart last time round. Bowling at least one really bad long hop an over, especially at the start. At least he's getting it down above 130 km/h.

Welegedara bowled some seriously good deliveries that test match tbh

 

[Burgey]

Good thing for Sri Lanka is that they will be bowling only the once in this game. Burns to score more runs this innings than he will in the Ashes.

He may not need to score very many tbf. England's batting looks worse than Australia's once Warner and Smith come back in. I wouldn't have had us as any realistic chance to win in England given our problems, bu tEngland's own ineptitude means we're actually a bit of a chance imo.

 

[Starfighter]

He may not need to score very many tbf. England's batting looks worse than Australia's once Warner and Smith come back in. I wouldn't have had us as any realistic chance to win in England given our problems, bu tEngland's own ineptitude means we're actually a bit of a chance imo.

Nah, England's 6-11 will always score plenty of runs at home.


This pitch is a real belter now. Anyone want to take bets on Starc wasting the new ball?

 

[Starfighter]

I find it funny that de Silva is looking significantly harder to get away than Perera.

 

[stephen]

I'm pretty sure that no Australian is going to get a century this summer. It just can't happen.

 

[Starfighter]

I'm pretty sure that no Australian is going to get a century this summer. It just can't happen.

How do you reckon it won't happen? Thin nick, spooned in air, horrible runout?

 

[ajdude]

burns bringing up a ton in the baggy green would be glorious omg

 

[stephen]

How do you reckon it won't happen? Thin nick, spooned in air, horrible runout?

Burns run out by Head on 99, then he'd slashing one to third man with no foot movement.

 

[stephen]

burns bringing up a ton in the baggy green would be glorious omg

Just the kind of symbol that would make Steve Waugh shed a tear.

 

[Starfighter]

Almost the horrible runout. That was badly fielded.

 

[Starfighter]

At long last.

 

[Gnske]

Boourns

 

[morgieb]

Nice! Bowling has been very easy after the first 15-20 overs, but he still needed to kick on after we were 3/30. Excellent knock.

 

[Burgey]

There it is. The great Joe Burns. The Muhammad Ali of Australian cricket - unjustly removed from the throne, only to return in glorious triumph and regain his title from a seemingly unbeatable opponent.

 

[GoodAreasShane]

Burns 100, top class effort

 

[stephen]

First hundred of the summer - and it's only February.

 

[Gnske]

Just pray to hell Head forgets that he is in the 80s here and that he's already passed his hundred

 

[morgieb]

Nah, England's 6-11 will always score plenty of runs at home.


This pitch is a real belter now. Anyone want to take bets on Starc wasting the new ball?

Yeah I can imagine it being a case of England being 6/100 and scraping their way to 250-ish. Australia I can see having a combo of a couple of 400+ and heaps of under 200 scores.

Oof that should've been taken.

 

[Gnske]

Oh come on, that would have been the end to the classic Travis Head innings.

Can't not get his ton now, surely.

 

[Starfighter]

Head doing his best to get out. How was that not taken?