Australia A v Sri Lanka A

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The Squads

Australia A Four-Day Squad
George Bailey (c) TAS
Ed Cowan TAS
Peter Forrest NSW
Peter George SA
Moises Henriques NSW (In for Mitch Marsh)
Ben Hilfenhaus TAS
Usman Khawaja NSW
Michael Klinger SA
Andrew McDonald (vc) VIC
Stephen O’Keefe NSW
James Pattinson VIC (In for Josh Hazlewood)
Mitchell Starc NSW
Matthew Wade VIC (In for Paine)

Australia A One-Day Squad
George Bailey (c) TAS
Travis Birt TAS
Xavier Doherty TAS
Brendan Drew TAS
Aaron Finch VIC
Jake Haberfield SA
Moises Henriques NSW (In for Mitch Marsh)
Usman Khawaja NSW
Andrew McDonald VIC
James Pattinson VIC
Adam Voges (vc) WA
Matthew Wade VIC (In for Paine)

SL OD Squad
Chamara Kapugedera (c)
Dinesh Chandimal
Nuwan Pradeep
Thilina Kandamby
Dimuth Karunaratne
Kosala Kulasekara
Farveez Maharoof
Jeevan Mendis
Dilshan Munaweera
Seekkuge Prasanna
Sachithra Senanayake
Lahiru Thirimanne
Isuru Udana
Mahela Udawatte


SL4 day squad
Thilina Kandamby (c)
Dinesh Chandimal
Nuwan Pradeep
Dimuth Karunaratne
Kosala Kulasekara
Jeevan Mendis
Nadeera Nawela
Tharanga Paranavitana
Dammika Prasad
Seekkuge Prasanna
Sachithra Senanayake
Kaushal Silva (wk)
Lahiru Thirimanne
Chaminda Vidanapathirana

Fixtures:

June 18-21, 2010 - Four-day Match
Australia A v Sri Lanka A
Allan Border Field

June 25-28 2010 - Four-day Match
Australia A v Sri Lanka A
Tony Ireland Stadium 10:00AM

July 02 2010 - Twenty20 Match
Australia A v Sri Lanka A
Tony Ireland Stadium 2:00PM

July 04 2010 - One Day Match
Australia A v Sri Lanka A
Tony Ireland Stadium 9:00AM

July 07 2010 - One Day Match
Australia A v Sri Lanka A
Tony Ireland Stadium 9:00AM

July 10 2010 - One Day Match
Australia A v Sri Lanka A
Allan Border Field 9:00AM

The first 4 day match
http://livescores.cricket.com.au/scoreboard_2547_1.html

Australia 1st Innings:
All out for 208

Stephen O'Keefe 61
Ben Hilfenhaus 42
Sachithra Senanayake 8/70 (Off spinner)

Sri Lanka 1st Innings:
All out for 103

O'Keefe 7/35 (Left Arm Orthodox)

Hilfenhaus no wickets yet, but has bowled 7 overs for 17. Obviously a spin friendly pitch this.

[alfy!]

Bloody hell, impressive figures for O'Keefe.

[Doodlesweaver]

Bloody hell, impressive figures for O'Keefe.

Extremely spin friendly by the looks of the scorecard. O'Keefe has shown his all-round credentials with the bat as well.

I hope the Sri Lankans show some gumption in the second innings. Ben Hilfenhaus needs some overs under his belt.

[jo172]

2 metre Peter with all 5 second innings wickets:thumbsu:

[Santana]

Senanayake's career numbers are sexy. Wonder when he'll get a shot with the first team.

[grimlock]

Wow Hilfy with the bat?

[Doodlesweaver]

Wow Hilfy with the bat?

He must have been practicing his batting while he couldn't practice his bowling.

He is also aware that if you can hold a bat, the selectors will look more kindly on a bowler. He's had a fair few overs this innings which is good.

[Selective Retention]

42 and 50 from Hilfy with the bat. He's not quite bunny standard but he's pretty close, he must have had a bit of luck on the tonk.

[Doodlesweaver]

Having watched him with the Aussie team he is not as bunny standard as I thought originally, he's not rubbish like Tait for example, and he doesn't look really scared or anything, but he would need luck. But bless his heart he hit two sixes in that 50.

[Cousin Jed]

Hilfenhaus with the last 5 wickets.

[sherb]

42 and 50 from Hilfy with the bat. He's not quite bunny standard but he's pretty close, he must have had a bit of luck on the tonk.
Coming into this match his highest f-c score was 34. So he has beaten his best f-c innings twice in the one match. :D :thumbsu:

I can't be bothered going back and looking it up, but I know he has been involved in quite a few decent lower order partnerships with Tassie in recent years. So he isn't a complete rabbit.

It would be good if he has actually worked on his batting.

[Selective Retention]

He can hang around at shield level. I reckon he has held up an end for Geeves a few times. When he came in at test level though, you were never confident he'd stay around for long, like a Siddle or Hauritz can do.

Good to see he has taken a few wickets, the bowling side of things was a little barren until today. Not that you would expect otherwise after the long lay off. The wickets have went in runs in both games. O'Keefe, George, Hilfy having a day out each.

[jonesy86]

Aussies routing SL in the 2nd 4-day game.

SL won the toss and batted in Townsville

SL 78
George 4/13
McDonald 3/17
Pattinson 2/17
Hilfy 1/14

AUS 1/60

[alfy!]

Gee, such low scores in these games.

[Gazza_11]

Fingers crossed Khawaja can ton up ahead of the real test series v Pakistan. Also hoping for Matty Wade to get amongst the runs and show the selectors what he can do.

[Selective Retention]

Aus 4/402 declared.

Bailey 154* off 138. 14 4s and 6 6s. Tidy effort after the opposition has been rolled for 78.

Cowan made a hundred as well and Khawaja got a 50.

[alfy!]

Wow, great display by the Aussie A's so far.

[eddiesmith]

Won by an innings and 17 runs with James Pattinson and Hilfenhaus both taking 3 wickets

[placebo]

Pretty good performance that.

[Santana]

Australia A best Sri Lanka A by 27 runs in the only T20 match of the tour.

Wade opened and scored 80 runs off 50 balls. Pattinson, McDonald and Drew all took 2 wickets each.

[eddiesmith]

Quite suprised by Wades innings, but a good start by the Victorian duo

James Pattinson seems to be playing well, hope he stays fit this year

[darcytiger]

I went to the T20 today, was pretty boring really. Aus A seemed to be cruising, they didn't take many risks and never got out of first gear.

Sri Lanka's fielding was nothing short of atrocious. If anyone else was there I was sitting with the ********s with the Vuzuvella's :D

Wasn't me though, I'm too spastic to use them and they were pissing me off all day

[Santana]

Sri Lanka A win their first game of the tour with a 5 wicket win in the 1st one day match.

No real stand outs for Australia A. Haberfield got 2 wickets and Birt scored 54.

A few for Sri Lanka A though. 5 wickets for Perera and 81 not out for Mendis.

[Blue Dimension]

I'm not surprised. Not the greatest batting/bowling attack. More specifically the bowling attack. They'll lose more than they win I'd suggest.

[Santana]

The 2nd one day game ends in a tie! Doherty hits a 4 off the last ball of the match off Perera to save the game for Australia A.
http://livescores.cricket.com.au/summary_2549_2.html

[alfy!]

Wow, a thriller!