[MERGED] Threads on M. Clarke's honesty & behaviour (re. catches/Chris Gayle in CT 06)

[Rajan]

Rajan or anybody ' date=' Can you dig out how Australia won the Test Match in thel ast over in Sri Lanka.... I know for sure there were umpiring horrors[/quote'] http://content-ind.cricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/237491.html Australia set a target of 370 just before the end of the fourth day. Victory for Sri Lanka was unlikely, a draw was not. But, despite stout resistance, they fell agonisingly short. With 40 overs left, Samaraweera and Jayawardene had defied the dusting pitch and reached 156 for two. But fortune smiled on Australia: as if Warne wasn't enough to cope with, Jayawardene, like Jayasuriya before him, got a bad decision. And after tea Warne finally broke through with four wickets. It had been grim work because of the heat, because Ponting was reluctant to crowd the bat and because there was no second main spinner. But Kasprowicz, persevering and perspiring, finally took the last wicket with eight balls left. It was a suitably close end to the least one-sided of whitewashes. :haha:Umpires SA Bucknor (West Indies) and DL Orchard (South Africa)

[talksport]

So it was JayaWardane and Jayasuriya on last day that day .....it is Dravid and Ganguly today.... History repeats... Funny Ponting mentioned this immediately after the Sydney Test

[Rajan]

and instead of Bhajji- racist remark ban by procter, there it was Murali -reported by Referee-Chris Broad himself:haha:

[talksport]

After having a few drinks with his mates ofcourse.... The good thing about the whole Test Match is the reception Warne got from the Lankan Crowd on his comeback from drug ban

[Rajan]

After having a few drinks with his mates ofcourse.... The good thing about the whole Test Match is the reception Warne got from the Lankan Crowd on his comeback from drug ban

what a remarkable similarity here- During the afternoon, the band played, Warne toiled, and the threat of Sri Lanka's first home whitewash seemed to be fading as Thilan Samaraweera and Mahela Jayawardene battened down the hatches after lunch, and added 64 in 160 balls for the third wicket. Warne had failed to make any headway despite the dusty dry pitch, and Australia's seamers were also beginning to show signs of tiredness after an exhausting tour, although Michael Kasprowicz was still gunbarrel-straight and Jason Gillespie occasionally conjured up some real devil from the placid surface. But as tea approached, Darren Lehmann - the Man of the Match after 153 in the first innings and five wickets in the game - reclaimed the initiative for Australia with the wickets of Samaraweera and Jayawardene. At 186 for 4, the Sri Lankans sipped their tea nervously. Samaraweera, pushed up to No. 3, had bedded down on his favourite home pitch (he has scored all three of his Test tons here) and looked set for a long stay as he passed 50 again. But then he was drawn down the pitch and stumped (156 for 3). Then Jayawardene, who had batted so well and watchfully for his 97-ball 37, was given out caught behind off Lehmann, although the TV replays showed the ball had only brushed his pad (181 for 4). a part time spinner getting a very similar favourable decision -:D These guys are really masters at getting their way with the umpires !

[Rajan]

Jayasuriya's 131 at Kandy was an electric innings, a knock that carried Sri Lanka to the brink of a famous win, but today's was more sedate. There was the odd signature rifle-cracking boundary through the off side, an area the Australians protected with a deep point, but he stopped short of an all-out assault. Nevertheless, Sri Lanka were scoring at a good rate, and local dreamers might have started to ponder a remarkable victory. But an umpiring blunder quashed those hopes when Jayasuriya was given out caught at backward short leg off Lehmann's first delivery of the morning. Like Jayawardene's dismissal later on, the ball appeared only to brush the pad. http://content-ind.cricinfo.com/ci/content/story/140433.html