Australia v Sri Lanka, 2nd Test, Canberra, 1-5 February, 2019

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Windies number1 clearly

Waksters / Bannies and Kiwis had strong teams

Oz were shit
Poms were Marcus Harris

See the historical rankings thread I just started.

Starc gets Karu early.

Koo looks a little more on song this morning with his line and length.

2nd gets Thiri popping one up for a c&b.

2 in 2 balls for Koo - now 9 for the match.

And ironically heading for MoM maybe.

Fat lady is clearing her throat.

skully wrote:And ironically heading for MoM maybe.

Only five overs for Second. Don't tell me they are trying to boost Moo's stocks by getting him cheapies?

Ooze still can't catch. - drops one of Shrapnel.

Shrap gets Mendis.

lalalalala.

Now 2nd chips in. 8-fer.

2nd gets a 3rd. 9-fer.

Chance for a Koo 10-fer here.

Koo castles Fernando for his 10-fer.

Aus move above England to 4th in Test rankings.

skully wrote:Koo castles Fernando for his 10-fer.

Aus move above England to 4th in Test rankings.

And from mediocre to meh.

Staff got the softest 10fer I have seen. Paine barely bowled Cummins to ensure the result - Cummins still got three. The 10 fee is as meAnigless as the Burns and Uber K tons. The Lankans are park cricket side.trying to play Tests.

The only upshot of this match is Canberra does not merit another Test.

Perzackerly 10-100 for Koo. Neat.

horace wrote:Staff got the softest 10fer I have seen. Paine barely bowled Cummins to ensure the result - Cummins still got three. The 10 fee is as meAnigless as the Burns and Uber K tons. The Lankans are park cricket side.trying to play Tests.

Crikey, there's some sausage fingering in that lot!!

I'd be getting half this team on planes to England come May to play county cricket and just filling up the WC side with ODI specialists. Actually I couldn't care less if they sent the Ettamoogah pub team to the WC but I spose there are contractual obligations.

Bradman wrote:I'd be getting half this team on planes to England come May to play county cricket

Good idea, Q. The batting half.

Wouldn't hurt some of the bowlers either.

all hail the minnow bashers

Yep, we are the Tom Latham of Test cricket countries. Bring on the Bangers and Zimmers.

Big Dog wrote:Happy that Stoinis did'nt make the X1. Its been over a year since he made that ODI score against NZ & he is still getting selected for it.

We sucked at JAMODIs this year