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Beat India in the 20/20 tonight - so much for IPL.

Just the one dayers now

Australia are looking well set against SL.

Watson has just owned the SL batsmen with a bit of reverse and just got Samaraweera out LBW on a pitch which looks to be getting slower and lower.
Could be a good game if SL can get close but 273 is looking a total good on this.

I've been impressed with Copeland but I think he's more like Stuart Clark than Glenn McGrath.

89 for 6 with Watson getting three LBW decisions in his favour over the last 3 overs.

The Lankans have reviewed 2 and lost both times.

Looks like the Aussies have finally found a decent spinner with Nathan Lyon getting 5 wickets on his test debut.

Sri Lanka all out for 105 and 168 runs behind on first innings.

Here we go again, 3 games to go in the county championship, Lancashire sitting top of the league, a competition they have not won for 50 odd years.

But the perennial bottlers are at it again as they are beat in 1 and 2/3rd days at worcestershire, out for 161 and 80, gaining 3 points.

Same old story, if the weather doesn't do for em, they skuttle theirsells.

Ah well 2 games to go now, and down to 3 rd.
Have another go next time

Australia become the most successful visiting cricket nation by winning the first test on Sri Lanka soil by 125 runs.

And they passed Pakistan in just half the number of matches played.

Better second innings by the Lankans but too bigger score to chase.

Tendulkar ruled out of the rest of the series with a toe injury.

The Lankan's can't even doctor a wicket right.



Michael Clarke: "I hate to see a Test match result determined by the toss." © AFP

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Matches: Sri Lanka v Australia at Galle
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Teams: Australia | Sri Lanka


Sri Lankan cricket authorities face formal sanction for Galle's dustbowl first Test pitch after it was officially rated "poor" by the ICC match referee Chris Broad. SLC must provide a written response to his report within 14 days.

A hefty fine and "a directive for corrective action" will be the result if the ICC does not deem their explanation sufficient. The pitch was the cause of much conjecture in the lead-up to the match, but by its conclusion both sides agreed it had been far too dry and offered exceedingly rare extremes of spin and variable bounce.

"The ICC's General Manager - Cricket, David Richardson, and the ICC's chief match referee Ranjan Madugalle will now consider all the evidence," the ICC said in a statement, "including studying video footage of the match and submissions from the host Member Board, before reaching their decision in due course."

Ricky Ponting equated the Galle pitch to the infamous Mumbai surface of 2004 while Michael Clarke said "day one felt like day five" after Australia wrapped up a 125-run victory in the first Test.

The Australians' pride in victory was made more so by the state of the surface, which can be described as a desert in the middle of an oasis. Galle is lashed by frequent rain and the outfield is verdant green, but the pitch prepared for the Test, ostensibly to aid Sri Lanka's spin bowlers, was tinder dry. Even Tillkaratne Dilshan, Sri Lanka's captain, expressed surprise at the pitch.

When gusts of wind swept across the ground on day four, some officials wondered whether they might take the whole of the pitch with them.

Having celebrated his 100th win in Test matches, becoming the first man to achieve the feat, Ponting said he had only seen one other pitch of similar quality in his career. That match, the fourth Test between India and Australia at Wankhede Stadium in 2004, was completed in little more than two days after the first was all but lost to rain.

"Yeah [I can remember] one, we had one in Mumbai on which we had to chase 100 in the fourth innings and it was about halfway through the second day and we couldn't get them," Ponting said. "I think we all knew when we saw the wicket two days out from the start of this game we knew it was going to be like this.

"It was very loose two days out and we couldn't see how it was going to get any better. So it was a great toss to win and a good first innings total for us and that set the game up."

Clarke, who made an important 60 in the second innings to ensure the fourth innings target would be out of Sri Lanka's reach, was similarly wide-eyed about the surface, and conceded the toss had gone a long way towards deciding the match.

"If you speak to all the batters that's definitely one of the toughest wickets I've had to bat on in a Test match and that was on day one," Clarke said. "Day one felt like day five of a Test match, so to scratch out 270-odd were crucial runs, we thought that was a pretty good score.

"It's really hard, I hate to see a Test match result determined by the toss, I hate to see any game of cricket determined by the toss, but that was one of the toughest wickets I've played Test cricket on. No doubt it was prepared for spin bowling, but I think it might've backfired as well."

Dilshan had commented on match eve that the pitch would start to turn after tea on the first day, but it was doing plenty from the first morning, when Rangana Herath's first ball jumped and turned to kiss the edge of Shane Watson's bat. If anything the pitch's venom dissipated a little on days three and four, allowing Mahela Jayawardene and Angelo Mathews add 142 to delay Australia's win.

"This is a challenging wicket," Dilshan said. "We know when you come to Galle this is a slow wicket, this is a very challenging wicket for Test cricket, but we've managed to get the highest fourth innings runs today. It is challenging, not easy.

"Normally the Galle track is very dry. We expect a turning and slow wicket in Galle but the thing is this started turning first day, so it was a little bit drier but we expect Galle to be similar to this as we've played previous."

Clarke praised the efforts of Michael Hussey, who was named Man of the Match for his 95 in the first innings, when the rest of the batsmen were struggling.

"His 95 is worth at least 150 on that wicket, and put us in a great position to win the Test, so I'm thrilled," Clarke said. "We executed our plans really well. As a batting group we would've liked someone to go on and make a hundred, especially in the first innings we found that all of us got a start.

"If Huss had a couple of partners I'm sure he would've got a hundred, but that's one thing as a batting unit we can work on. Our bowling unit did a really good job as a group, hitting good areas, we knew on that wicket we were going to get a little bit of inconsistent bounce so we had to be at the stumps as much as we could, and our fielding was fantastic, our energy in the field was the standard we want to see."

Poor old India. The one time they look like they might win a match it gets rained off.

Then a late start for rain reduces play to 23 overs and they get humped again.

Poors sods just can't catch a break!

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Poor old India. The one time they look like they might win a match it gets rained off.

Then a late start for rain reduces play to 23 overs and they get humped again.

Poors sods just can't catch a break!

Certainly don't look like the same side that won the WC and were briefly #1 in the rankings.

Stick it up 'em, England.

Marsh is on 83 on his test debut for australia, and i think the test team looks much better with him in it. if he does well in the test side, who should make way for him when punter comes back? watson, hughes, .....or dare i say pup clarke???

India 69/5 after 20 overs.... I hope they have a nice holiday booked after this series.

^who cares about the poms and the bladdy indians

Originally Posted by Wally Dorian Raffles

^who cares about the poms and the bladdy indians

The poms and the bladdy indians, you fool.

Actually the jinglies had a bit of a fightback, but England need 140 off 180 balls with 7 wickets remaining and it's raining. Seems Mr. Duckworth and Mr. Lewis might have a say once again.

Well thanks to D/L, England need a run a ball off the last 33 overs with five wickets standing.

They need Bopara to shit or get off the pot so Broad can come in.

Bresnan out, 193/6, 25 reqd off 25, here comes Broad...

Quite a game this. 10 off 13 reqd, 7 wickets down, Broad and Swann at bat.

Broad and Swann see it home quite easily. India's English nightmare continues.

Shaun Marsh, son of Aussie great Geoff reaches his century on test debut and along with Michael Hussey (101 not out) has given Australia a strong first innings lead.

Originally Posted by Loy Toy

Shaun Marsh, son of Aussie great Geoff reaches his century on test debut and along with Michael Hussey (101 not out) has given Australia a strong first innings lead.

Good to see Australia rebuilding, perhaps soon they may be a force in world cricket once again.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Originally Posted by Wally Dorian Raffles

^who cares about the poms and the bladdy indians

The poms and the bladdy indians, you fool.

calm down harry. just friendly banter old son

well done to the poms - though india look like they just want to go home.

congrats to s.marsh on his maiden test ton on debut

Suresh Reina and skipper MS Dhoni shared in a fifth-wicket stand of 169 to help India post a score of 280-5 in the fourth ODI with England at Lord's.

Looks like England have their work cut out to win this one.

Game on!

Got to about 44 overs, looked like it was going to rain, so Dhoni spent ages fucking about with the field because England were 2 behind on Duckworth Lewis. It rained, they came off, it stopped raining, they came back on. England slapped nine off the over, 2 ahead on Duckworth Lewis. It rained again, off went the umpires and the batsmen, this time the Indians stayed on the field.

Then they came back out one more time, made England play on in the pissing rain, it got to 270 on Duckworth (all square), and the umpires took them off and called it a draw.

Farcical ending really, but it was funny watching the Indians do their best to cheat again - just like the Pakis and Banglas.

I'd sooner watch paint dry.

Them umpiles must be real serious cretins to stand there all day countin pebbles.

Over.

Originally Posted by AFP

Cook and Trott pick up main cricket awards
(AFP) – 4 hours ago
LONDON — England batsmen Alastair Cook and Jonathan Trott were named respectively test player of the year and player of the year at a ceremony hosted by the sport's governing body the International Cricket Council (ICC) on Monday.
Cook, the 26-year-old opener who was appointed one day captain after the World Cup this year - shone during the year peaking with a masterly 294 in the third Test victory over India in August, though, that fell outside the time frame for the award.
It was his third test century in six matches and 19th in all and is now just three shy of England's all-time record Test century total.
It represents quite a turnaround in the genial Cook's fortunes as a year ago he was close to being dropped before reviving his career with a hundred against Pakistan at The Oval.
It proved to be the springboard for a triumphant tour of Australia where he scored 766 runs, including three centuries, as England won the Ashes 3-1.
During the performance period, he played 12 Tests and in 18 innings, he compiled 1,302 runs at an average of 51.74, including six centuries and four half-centuries.
His highest score of 235 not out against Australia at Brisbane helped his team towards series victory as it won the Ashes away from home for the first time since the 1986-87 season.
The independent voting academy of 25 cricket experts put Cook first, ahead of an impressive group of players that had been short-listed, including England team-mates Trott and James Anderson, as well as Jacques Kallis of South Africa, who previously won this award in 2005.
"I think the highlight of year was when we won in Sydney, to beat Australia and Chris Tremlett to take that final wicket it was truly a great year," said Cook.
"This award is about the rest of the team not just me."
The ICC later named Trott as their cricketer of the year.
"I never envisaged winning this award and it's a brilliant feeling to be recognised," Trott said.
Trott, who alongside Cook was a bedrock of England's victory in Australia last winter with 445 runs, took the award ahead of fellow short-list nominees Sachin Tendulkar and Hashim Amla.
After receiving the award at a dinner, Trott spoke of his delight at an accolade that honoured not just his but England's achievements over the last 12 months.
Asked for his favourite memory, the South Africa-born batsman had no hesitation nominating not one of his innings but his run-out of Australia's Simon Katich on the first morning of the second Test in Adelaide.
"That run-out in the first over of the game - it was the first time I've ever got to run around a cricket field like a football striker scoring a goal," he said.
"That was the best highlight for me - although I have to say as a team Melbourne was special."
It was at the MCG that England retained the Ashes.

http://www.cricketworld.com/trott-wi...ward/29343.htm


Can't argue against that