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

[to1994]

The problem for England is that have good players but not a good team. It's all over the place, they have 3 keepers, 3 all-rounders and their two front line bowlers and nearly ready to retire so they aren't in a good place. They need to make some hard calls on leaving out both one keeper, one all-rounder and focusing on some younger top order batsman who might develop.

 

[Chaisa]

Is the weather average the next 2 days?

There's a shower expected Monday afternoon and Day 5 has some chance of a shower. Probably won't lose terribly much play.

Will be interested to see how long we bat for. I'd be batting for the rest of the day, but if the lead gets to 550+ I could see Australia wanting a few overs at Sri Lanka tonight.

 

[Blue1980]

Good to see Starc bowling a lot better. Hopefully this is what he needed to get his mojo back.

Also helps having lots of runs to play with

 

[Tugga27]

Good to see the boys getting around Starc.

 

[Bedi]

Great effort in getting 5 wickets, but he really didn't bowl well to deserve those figures.

 

[Kram]

It's too late now though the test is already over

SL could only manage 215 on a wicket that's supposed to be the flattest in history, Test is already over because they are crap over here.

 

[Jimthegreat]

Bowlers did something unaccustomed, they bowled smart and to the conditions. Starc took a while to do that but once he did he was a different bowler, especially at 150k regularly.

 

[Blue1980]

There's a shower expected Monday afternoon and Day 5 has some chance of a shower. Probably won't lose terribly much play.

Will be interested to see how long we bat for. I'd be batting for the rest of the day, but if the lead gets to 550+ I could see Australia wanting a few overs at Sri Lanka tonight.

Good opportunity for Khawaja to get some form

 

[Chaisa]

The problem for England is that have good players but not a good team. It's all over the place, they have 3 keepers, 3 all-rounders and their two front line bowlers and nearly ready to retire so they aren't in a good place. They need to make some hard calls on leaving out both one keeper, one all-rounder and focusing on some younger top order batsman who might develop.

I don't see why picking so many keepers is a problem if they're all in the best 7 batsmen. The problem is in their best 7 batsmen the only specialist batsmen that would make it are Root and maybe Burns.

 

[corbies]

That's am amazing statistic from Vaughan. Bairstow bats 3 for England, and he's been bowled 29 times.

Is it really that amazing? Bairstow has been bowled 29 times in his 102 dismissals (28.43%). Don Bradman was bowled 23 times out of his 70 dismissals (32.86%).

 

[Gough]

The problem for England is that have good players but not a good team. It's all over the place, they have 3 keepers, 3 all-rounders and their two front line bowlers and nearly ready to retire so they aren't in a good place. They need to make some hard calls on leaving out both one keeper, one all-rounder and focusing on some younger top order batsman who might develop.

I have them in the same boat as us, a team in flux who'll put together a side to win the Ashes and worry about the future later. It's why I suspect SMarsh will go.

 

[Wedge McManus]

Good to see Starc bowling a lot better. Hopefully this is what he needed to get his mojo back.

Also helps having lots of runs to play with

The latter part of your post could be the key. Bit stiff having to bowl from being behind in the game every time....

 

[Jimthegreat]

Great effort in getting 5 wickets, but he really didn't bowl well to deserve those figures.

Did bowl well in the 2nd half of his innings. First half was poor. Richardson bowled well and got nothing bar a KO'ed batsman. Way it goes sometimes.

 

[Wedge McManus]

Did bowl well in the 2nd half of his innings. First half was poor. Richardson bowled well and got nothing bar a KO'ed batsman. Way it goes sometimes.

The wheel always turns

 

[Cleavy]

time for Harris and Khawaja to stand up and prove they want to be on the plane to England

 

[Richard Pryor]

Is it really that amazing? Bairstow has been bowled 29 times in his 102 dismissals (28.43%). Don Bradman was bowled 23 times out of his 70 dismissals (32.86%).

I think Bradman is an anomaly because he would never hit the ball in the air as a conscious choice to take being caught out of his game as much as possible, presumably bumping up the percentage of other dismissals.. Not sure how others stack up, but would assume the Don's bowled rate is anomalously high among the top tier bats.

 

[LukeParkerno1]

Surely follow on?

Nope

Get stuffed I want to watch us bat.

 

[Goodbye]

what are we thinking? have a lash until about 250-300, declare and bowl them out again for 173?

sounds about spot on I reckon

 

[jackster83]

The problem for England is that have good players but not a good team. It's all over the place, they have 3 keepers, 3 all-rounders and their two front line bowlers and nearly ready to retire so they aren't in a good place. They need to make some hard calls on leaving out both one keeper, one all-rounder and focusing on some younger top order batsman who might develop.

Having a poor captain is arguably their biggest problem.

 

[Wedge McManus]

Bradman is an anomaly because he would never hit the ball in the air as a conscious choice to take being caught out of his game, presumably bumping up the percentage of other dismissals.. Not sure how others stack up, but would assume the Don's bowled rate is anomalously high among the top tier bats.

Good thing Bradman never saw Brendon mccullum or Chris Lynn bat he'd have vomited all over the place

 

[corbies]

I think Bradman is an anomaly because he would never hit the ball in the air as a conscious choice to take being caught out of his game as much as possible, presumably bumping up the percentage of other dismissals.. Not sure how others stack up, but would assume the Don's bowled rate is anomalously high among the top tier bats.

The point was more that stat in isolation doesn't mean anything. You could use it to say he doesn't get caught much and therefore musn't hit the ball in the air.

But yes the pre-WWII era of cricket had a higher percentage of bowled then now.

 

[strewthcobber]

I think Bradman is an anomaly because he would never hit the ball in the air as a conscious choice to take being caught out of his game as much as possible, presumably bumping up the percentage of other dismissals.. Not sure how others stack up, but would assume the Don's bowled rate is anomalously high among the top tier bats.

No 3s have been bowled just under 20% of the time in test cricket

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[Topkent]

SL could only manage 215 on a wicket that's supposed to be the flattest in history, Test is already over because they are crap over here.

I don't care if the pitch comes to life on day 3, the first 2 days have already ended the test match.

 

[Woody15]

I don't care if the pitch comes to life on day 3, the first 2 days have already ended the test match.

Maybe they should have held their catches then.

 

[strewthcobber]

Maybe they should have held their catches then.

Or brought a test quality bowling attack

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