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*Official* Australia in Sri Lanka 2016
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Burgey
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You don't see any difference in the situation of the game/ the pitch between day one at Lord's and this game? That's itstl.
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Sri Lanka have never defended a target of less than 167 and have only defended a target under 200 twice in 27 attempts
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cricmahanty
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Mendis has a shot at probably the oldest existing record in test cricket.
Bannerman scored 165 out of a team total of 245, that is about 67.3% of the team's runs. Mendis stands at 137 out of 224 (about 61.1%).
If he stays on till late and farms the strike with the tailenders, good old Bannerman might just lose out on a 139-year old record.
Bannerman scored 165 out of a team total of 245, that is about 67.3% of the team's runs. Mendis stands at 137 out of 224 (about 61.1%).
If he stays on till late and farms the strike with the tailenders, good old Bannerman might just lose out on a 139-year old record.
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That's pretty incredible considering Murali.
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They did well to avoid conceding a big score there in 2004, that's pretty much the peak time of 'Jayawardene and Sangakkara bat for 8 weeks on concrete, then bowl Murali until his arm drops off' phase of Sri Lankan tactics
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And both instances where they won, they didn't even have murali. Fatty Herath won it for them.
An extremely flat pitch when the opposition is flying, vs a harder to bat on pitch when opposition are 100 ahead with 6 wickets left (roughly when the field went out).
Would argue England's more defensive response was probably more justified. I think Smith has given away to many easy singles here.
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Bannerman safe now it seems.
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I guess we have pretty different approaches to it. This bloke's playing an epic knock and the partnership was cruising along pretty well. As you say, it's not an easy pitch to bat on so far. They were >100 ahead on a surface where runs are hard to come by. Leaving the field up and letting the set batsmen thread boundaries through it sees the lead escalate at a faster rate IMO. And a lead of 180 is defendable against this Australian batting line up, 220 I'd reckon it's Even Stevens.
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I was wondering if he's close to the highest score by a 21 year old, did the query and felt kind of stupid