Cricket Discussion - Part 2

[raptalia]

With Sri Lanka 6/431 at stumps on Day3 Australia face a challenge. The Sri Lankans already lead by 67 so we need to knock the tail over pretty quickly or a lead of 100 plus is on the cards.

 

[Quadzilla]

Lunch on day four !

Sri Lanka - 8/499 (173.0)
Leading Australia by 135 runs

Dinesh Chandimal - 153* (293)
Prabath Jayasuriya - 0* (3)

Mitchell Starc - 3/56 (26)
Mitch Swepson - 2/100 (37)
Nathan Lyon - 2/194 (64)

 

[Quadzilla]

9/550

Dinesh 200no

Last wicket 45 so far...all runs to Dinesh!

 

[Del165198]

Still a very good score I reckon.

Nope

 

[philreich]

Nope

Well what it hopefully means is that batting shouldn't be something to be feared for our boys (typing is tough when one's fingers are crossed!!!).

 

[philreich]

Ummm, this isn't going well.......

 

[Rising Power]

Donald ducked. Could only afford to lose 1 wicket max tonight. Going to be a stretch to even save the match now.

 

[Rising Power]

Only 120 to go though, so maybe doable

Edit: jeez I wasn't paying attention. I thought it was 191 to win, not to make SL bat again lol. Bad bad loss.

 

[philreich]

Cameron Green - your time is now!!!

 

[Quadzilla]

Cameron Green - your time is now!!!

His time has gone... Out 25

6/117 now ... Still 73 behind

Aust will likely lose by an innings!

Edit : Starc goes first ball and Jayasuriya is on a hat trick

 

[Grave Danger]

Chandimal for President and Jayasuria for PM?

 

[raptalia]

That was total capitulation and one of the worst Australian losses I can remember.

The Sri Lankan tail did what the Australian tail didn't do. They stayed with Chandimal where as Steve Smith was left stranded. The vision of Alex Carey holing out from a reverse sweep still haunts me. Someone needs to tell Alex that there are times to put the T20 shots away. Then again another 100 runs probably would not have made much difference as the opposition was too good.

Congratulations to the Sri Lakans on a mind boggling form reversal between the First and Second Tests.

 

[philreich]

This was a stark reminder that Australia are great front runners, but when forced to come from behind, they couldn't fight their way out of a paper bag. I'm struggling to remember the last time we finished a Test with an honourable draw - Edgbaston 2005?

 

[raptalia]

We batted first and should have made the running but we also should have shown more fight. Apart from Starc our bowling was pretty ordinary, I was disappointed in Cummins who was all over the shop and Lyon got nothing out of the pitch.

I reckon Travis Head will pay for the Australian failure. The selectors will look for a scapegoat and Travis' head may be on the chopping block, pardon the pun.

Picking Man Of The Match must have been hard but Jayasuriya deserved it with 12 wickets on debut. Not often a double century maker gets pipped for MOTM.

 

[Rising Power]

We batted first and should have made the running but we also should have shown more fight. Apart from Starc our bowling was pretty ordinary, I was disappointed in Cummins who was all over the shop and Lyon got nothing out of the pitch.

I reckon Travis Head will pay for the Australian failure. The selectors will look for a scapegoat and Travis' head may be on the chopping block, pardon the pun.

Picking Man Of The Match must have been hard but Jayasuriya deserved it with 12 wickets on debut. Not often a double century maker gets pipped for MOTM.

It's not looking good for him. A couple nice hundreds at home last summer, but hasn't gone on with it of late albeit in the tough sub-continent conditions.



But who else is there for the middle order? Maxwell with no FC cricket in the last 2-3 years? Maddinson's barely made any runs lately bar a 50 in SL. Maybe shuffle Khawaja back down the order and go again with a new/recycled opener, Harris, Renshaw, Hunt?

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

 

[philreich]

It's only a county game, but this one's a bit special. Sussex batted first and made 588, which would win a lot of games. Leicestershire then lost their 4th wicket at 279. But they haven't lost a wicket since, and the score is now 4 for 756. You don't see many 500 partnerships, but if they bat on after lunch, we may see one today.

Edit: damn - they declared at lunch.

 

[Grave Danger]

It's only a county game, but this one's a bit special. Sussex batted first and made 588, which would win a lot of games. Leicestershire then lost their 4th wicket at 279. But they haven't lost a wicket since, and the score is now 4 for 756. You don't see many 500 partnerships, but if they bat on after lunch, we may see one today.

Nope - they declared on that score.

Somerset vs Lancashire is another high scoring affair too - Somerset scored 446 in their first innings, but could be in danger of losing by an innings because Lancs replied with 624/9d and Somerset are 4/76 in the second, still 102 behind. Keaton Jennings, who had a brief, less than mediocre test career for England, scored 318 for Lancs.

England batting against India in an ODI atm, 1/52 off 12, with Bairstow and Root together, going much more sedately than they were in the last test

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

It's only a county game, but this one's a bit special. Sussex batted first and made 588, which would win a lot of games. Leicestershire then lost their 4th wicket at 279. But they haven't lost a wicket since, and the score is now 4 for 756. You don't see many 500 partnerships, but if they bat on after lunch, we may see one today.

Edit: damn - they declared at lunch.

I remember when Jayasuriya made a triple hundred and Mahanama ( doo doot doot doot doo) made a double hundred and put on over 550 for the 2nd wicket against India in the mid 90's for the first time in test cricket and I remember an article saying it was the 6th time a 500 run partnership had been recorded in first class cricket. It was in Colombo India made 500+ and declared and Sri Lanka were about 6 or 7 wickets for 950+. Basically a 15 wicket test for about 1,500 runs.

So after reading your post I looked up the history of biggest partnerships. It was in fact the 7th 500+ run partrnership, 6 previously and since then another 8 have been scored including a 624 run partnership by Sri Lanka against South Africa in 2006 at the other test ground in Colombo.

I don't remember that one at all. Sangakkara made a big double hundred and Jaywardene 374, which I remember that score as it was 1 less than Lara's 375 against the poms, which Hayden surpassed with 380 against the Zimbos almost a decade later, then Lara made 400 n.o about 6 months later against the poms again, in the windies in 2004.

FC matches | Partnership records | Highest partnerships for any wicket | ESPNcricinfo

Find records of Highest partnerships for any wicket in FC matches only on ESPNcricinfo.

stats.espncricinfo.com

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Saw this feature story on my local ABC news tonight about Kim Hughes' battle with alcohol. Sounds like it got pretty bad especially once Covid hit and took the intervention of his son and mates including ex WA and Oz cricketer Wayne Clarke to get him into rehab.

Says he hasnt had a drink for 18 months.

 

[philreich]

Incredible knock by Babar Azam in the First Test between Sri Lanka and Pakistan. Replying to the home team's 222, the Pakistanis collapsed to 9 for 148. But Babar then took over - he was last man out for 119, and the visitors had reduced the deficit to just 4 runs.

 

[philreich]

I remember when Jayasuriya made a triple hundred and Mahanama ( doo doot doot doot doo) made a double hundred and put on over 550 for the 2nd wicket against India in the mid 90's for the first time in test cricket and I remember an article saying it was the 6th time a 500 run partnership had been recorded in first class cricket. It was in Colombo India made 500+ and declared and Sri Lanka were about 6 or 7 wickets for 950+. Basically a 15 wicket test for about 1,500 runs.

So after reading your post I looked up the history of biggest partnerships. It was in fact the 7th 500+ run partrnership, 6 previously and since then another 8 have been scored including a 624 run partnership by Sri Lanka against South Africa in 2006 at the other test ground in Colombo.

I don't remember that one at all. Sangakkara made a big double hundred and Jaywardene 374, which I remember that score as it was 1 less than Lara's 375 against the poms, which Hayden surpassed with 380 against the Zimbos almost a decade later, then Lara made 400 n.o about 6 months later against the poms again, in the windies in 2004.

FC matches | Partnership records | Highest partnerships for any wicket | ESPNcricinfo

Find records of Highest partnerships for any wicket in FC matches only on ESPNcricinfo.

stats.espncricinfo.com

There may be another addition to that list tonight. Nottinghamshire elected to bat first against Derbyshire - they lost their first wicket at 46, and then didn't lose another wicket before stumps, with the score at 1 for 439.

 

[philreich]

The game seems consigned to a boring draw, but Glamorgan's Sam Northeast has a chance to shoot for a quadruple century on day 4 against Leicestershire. He'll start the day on 308 not out, so who knows what he'll finish on?

 

[Grave Danger]

The game seems consigned to a boring draw, but Glamorgan's Sam Northeast has a chance to shoot for a quadruple century on day 4 against Leicestershire. He'll start the day on 308 not out, so who knows what he'll finish on?

Still there on 324no.

Lots of huge scores in the County Championship lately - the Dukes ball not talking during the heatwave, or less grass on the pitches?

 

[philreich]

Still there on 324no.

Lots of huge scores in the County Championship lately - the Dukes ball not talking during the heatwave, or less grass on the pitches?

Now 382.