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***Official*** VB Series 2006
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He's only been out four times from 16 innings!Katich got several lives from the Umpires as well as from SL fielders !!James90 said:
Mark Benson denied a Plumb LBW off Dilhara Fernando's first over !! And Aussies would have struggled to get their innings going at that stage had that been given !!
He also got away with a few other very close LBW shouts.
Martyn's run out prior to scoring was not very clear although it seemed there was some minor deflection off Dilhara's fingers .
I think this game is beyond SL already . Although with extra Power Play in ODIs now 300 plus is not totally ungettable . But that means few of the SL batsman at the top of the order will really have to go after the bowling and use the Power Play well .
Burpey
Cricketer Of The Year
Katich was never out LBW. It was missing, no matter what that Hawkeye says. As for Martyn's run out prior to scoring, if Fernando had touched it he would have appealed, wouldn't he?JASON said:
Overall great effort by the Australians. However, I thought the Sri Lankan bowlers bowled very well in the last 10 overs.
All things considered I guess we were quite lucky to only be chasing 318; I thought we'd be chasing down at least 330. We were pretty unlucky, there was a couple of good LBW shouts that should have gone our way, the whole no-ball catch, the Martyn diamond duck run-out etc. The fielding let us down, there were some good pieces of fielding, but we gave away too many cheap 1's and twos. I got the feeling that particularly early on the guys in the ring weren't hurrying in enough. We really need to work on throwing down the stumps. The couple of catches that went down were too tough to call them chances, but it comes down to if we had any luck going our way they would have stuck. I doubt we can win, but hey I'm hoping this is the one time we can pull something out.
I was quite impressed by Ruchira Perera, who a number were bad-mouthing. Fernando did a pretty decent job except for a couple of expensive overs, which had more to do with the power play than anything. But Vaas and Murali other than a couple of overs were a complete non-factor.
At any rate, we're guaranteed to see Michael Vandort out there at some time in the game.
I was quite impressed by Ruchira Perera, who a number were bad-mouthing. Fernando did a pretty decent job except for a couple of expensive overs, which had more to do with the power play than anything. But Vaas and Murali other than a couple of overs were a complete non-factor.
At any rate, we're guaranteed to see Michael Vandort out there at some time in the game.
FaaipDeOiad
Hall of Fame Member
Yes. Murali went for 67 runs because he was unlucky.JASON said:
Anyway, wonderful effort from Martyn and Symonds in the middle overs, and Clarke and Hussey at the end in the face of some good bowling. Amazing to look at not only Hussey's gigantic average, but also Clarke's, which is sitting in the high 40s after several years in the side, with no sign of dropping.
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Jono
Virat Kohli (c)
With all due respect Jason, you seem to make excuses every game SL loses whilst still bad mouthing the SL team for poor performances.JASON said:
Today the back-up/support bowlers did reasonably well, but a few close calls didn't go SL's way (not wrong decisions though, because Katich's LBW wasn't plumb and others could go either way) but the strike bowlers, particularly Vaas but Murali too were not on song, and Australia were just brilliant. 330-340 looked a reality when Symonds and Martyn were going.
