Match scheduled to begin at 14:15 local time (03:15 GMT) - 08:45 Sri Lanka Time
Melbourne Weather Forcast
History
Sri Lanaka v Australia ODIs at Melbourne (1983-2003)
Teams
Aussies have decided to rest Brett Lee for this match as well.
Australia AC Gilchrist, ML Hayden, RT Ponting, MJ...
Its a pity that Welagedara is not getting a single match on this tour.. Wonder whats wrong...We could have taken an extra batsmen instead,, Crazy Selectors..
The Preview by Brydon Coverdale in Melbourne
February 21, 2008
Sri Lanka's match against Australia at the MCG on Friday is not technically a must-win game for the visitors but Mahela Jayawardene knows another defeat could be as good as fatal to their CB Series. Australia are all but into the...
You can't blame sanga for the two runouts..:no: Bowler got a fingertip on the straight drives in both occasions. It wasn't our day... Just too unlucky..We would have had a much bigger target if we didn't loose Mahela in the crucial stage of the game..
Mahela has been performing well enough at the test level.. His captaincy has been little ordinary in the current series but you can't just take his captaincy away just because he underperformed in a series or two.. Most of the guys in the team is performing badly. Captain can only do strategic...
Finally Finally some good changes that we were expecting.. Malinda Warnapura and Thilina Thushara Mirando getting a chance...Still no place for Malinga Bandara though :( We have to wait and see what the ODI squad would look like..Hope Mahela Udwatte will also get a call..
Sri Lanka Announce their Test XI for West Indies Tour 2008
Sri Lanka in West Indies 2007-08
Amerasinghe gets Test call-up
Sa'adi Thawfeeq
February 19, 2008
Sri Lanka's selectors recalled bowlers Rangana Herath and Thilan Thushara and batsman Malinda Warnapura, and included fast bowler Ishara...
Its time to bring in fresh ideas.. Youngsters are the future.. We should give them plenty of chances like Indians are doing now.. If we want to keep our name and fame in World Cricket in the coming years we better start this process now.. By doing this we will loose plenty of matches in the...
I have lost all my faith.. :( I think loosing this series will wake everyone up and hopefully we can learn from our mistakes. By any chance if we get selected there won't be any competition in the Final games.. Its not the usual positive looking sri lankan team we are seeing in this series :sorry:
2 Games against India will be crucial for us.. If we can win those two we are through..Some how we have to win atleast 2 matches..Indians only have 3 matches left.. We have 4..
There are some big hitting capable middle order players in the country.. But the problem is they are not given the opportunity..
Examples :-
TT Mirando
Kaushalya Weeraratne
Indika De Seram
Dilhara Lokuhettige
Last match against india our Batters did well but bowling failed a bit.. This time bowlers and fielders did well but batsmen failed.. It has to be a combined effort of these three units if we are to challenge the opposition.. Until we get it sorted out we will fail further.. :no:
Our middle...
It is simple as this... We have to win at least another 3 out of the coming 4 matches to be 100% sure.. All 3 teams have 4 matches left..But if we can beat india twice and aussies beat them at least once then we are thru even if we loose 2 against aussies. But we cannot predict the weather :(...
Updates
12.45pm local time Hello everyone and welcome along to coverage of Australia's latest CB Series match against Sri Lanka in Perth. A win for the visitors would see them top the table while Australia are itching to get another one over on them after beating them last week. Australia are...
Match scheduled to begin at 13:30 local time (04:30 GMT) - 10:00 Sri Lanka Time
Perth Weather Forecast
Pitch
"The wicket is very hard and very flat," Ponting told AAP, "so I think some change of pace with those two guys coming into the side will help us out. I think we will use the other...
We can do it if we can get aussy lineup all out which we haven't been doing in last couple of games... :yes: Hope we would be able to do it tomorrow. Go Lions!! :cool: