Australia v Sri Lanka; 2nd Test @ Manuka Oval Feb 1-5.

[Carbine Chaos]

How good is Mendis in the slips!

Great work.

 

[OffTheBit]

Compliments to the fielder? Looked like 2 pretty straight forward catches to me

 

[Jimthegreat]

Thank F this is the last Test without Warner and Smith.

 

[dumb]

covering ourselves in glory this innings

 

[bh90210fan]

Patterson & Burns are locks

Plenty of cricket left before the ashes. They’ve made runs against a second string Sri Lankan bowling attack on a flat deck. They can’t be locks.

 

[Adelaide Hawk]

Khawaja just let one go outside the off stump. There's hope

 

[SportsCentre]

pretty much the same score we had at this stage in the first innings.

 

[Richard Pryor]

You seem to think that this isn't an Australian batting line up containing an opener who gets out in the same way every innings, a number 3 who can't move his feet, a bloke playing his 2nd test and a keeper who has one FC century in his career. This is the worst Australian batting line up and era ever. That 550 was a complete false flag

If you're seriously trying to argue Australia's batting is significantly worse than Sri Lanka's bowling I don't know what to tell you. Also Sri Lanka has an opener averaging in the 20's with a SR in the 30's.

You should take up pitch preparation professionally if you think you have the magic formula to make a pitch where we score 100 and Sri Lanka score 300.

INB4 you use this innings to argue SL's bowling > Aus batting.

 

[Bedi]

wtf was that, Ussie.

 

[SportsCentre]

Usman's decided England's climate is too cold for him.

 

[Kram]

Say we made 100 and they made 300? It's a hypothetical scenario in your favour.

Had that happened then atleast the game was moving quickly.

You carried on and on about this wicket being a disgrace for being too flat and yet they only managed to scrape a score together of 215. Yet you think they could have somehow made 300 on a challenging wicket?

 

[Blackhawk42]

Patterson & Burns are locks

Nobody going to mention Travis Head?

 

[Hyakutake]

Do we have the stupidest top order in the history of cricket?

 

[weetert]

Patterson & Burns are locks

nah

 

[LukeParkerno1]

Do we have the stupidest top order in the history of cricket?

We did when Finch was there

 

[Wedge McManus]

You carried on and on about this wicket being a disgrace for being too flat and yet they only managed to scrape a score together of 215. Yet you think they could have somehow made 300 on a challenging wicket?

And at the start of the match he went on about it moving all over the place. He's a troll mate

 

[Chaisa]

Patterson & Burns are locks

I wouldn't call them locks, but it seems really harsh to drop them two and Head given they scored big runs at Test level, something the others really couldn't.

 

[Chaisa]

And at the start of the match he went on about it moving all over the place. He's a troll mate

Well tbf the Lankans have been making the new ball hoop. Other than that though it's been damn flat.

 

[Richard Pryor]

I wouldn't call them locks, but it seems really harsh to drop them two and Head given they scored big runs at Test level, something the others really couldn't.

And if they use the "it's just Sri Lanka" logic they would have to drop Starc as well.

 

[Topkent]

You carried on and on about this wicket being a disgrace for being too flat and yet they only managed to scrape a score together of 215. Yet you think they could have somehow made 300 on a challenging wicket?

They didn't bat first. So you think our batsmen are that good and 550 is a representation of our batting skill?

 

[Wedge McManus]

Well tbf the Lankans have been making the new ball hoop. Other than that though it's been damn flat.

So flat we bowled them out for 215

 

[Adelaide Hawk]

Showing that over from Fernando from overhead showed me one thing. All 6 balls were delivered with the front foot landing in precisely the same spot. Whatever happened to using the crease to vary space and line when bowling?

 

[FredLeDeux]

Well tbf the Lankans have been making the new ball hoop. Other than that though it's been damn flat.

Sneaky bastards have been swinging it in the air, not the dirt.

 

[bh90210fan]

Nobody going to mention Travis Head?

Forgot about him. Yeah he’s realistically a lock I reckon

 

[Chaisa]

So flat we bowled them out for 215

Irrelevant. They've batted pretty average and Australia bowled very well.

I don't think the wicket is 5/534 flat, but it's clearly not a 9/215 pitch either.