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Australia tour of Sri Lanka 2022 - Discussion Thread


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16 minutes ago, Lone Wolf said:

Fabulous series win for lankans...  Amazing scenes.  Weirdly  it's their first bilateral ODI series win over Aussies in three decades. 

Hopefully they win the test series as well & do a favor on India. 

SL won a bilateral ODI series against OZ in 2010/11

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The successes of both PAK and SL in white ball cricket in recent times owes a lot to Mickey Arthur. He set professional fitness standards, backed the right players as much as possible etc.  

Gets a bad rep for no reason whatsoever. 

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Sri Lanka batting first in the first test. 

 

Think this will be a 50-50 series. Australia are a better side but SL with the home advantage. 

Posted
47 minutes ago, deepdynamo said:

Supporting SL..

 

Aus need to drop few test championship point this series....

 

Yes. 

 

But cannot bank on Sri Lanka at all. Their current spinners are nowhere near the level of Herath, Dilruwan. 

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Saw a bit of Swepson today and damn he seems quite impressive. Not talking about turn and wickets he got but he has been consistent and getting good drift.

Posted
28 minutes ago, Norman said:

 

Yes. 

 

But cannot bank on Sri Lanka at all. Their current spinners are nowhere near the level of Herath, Dilruwan. 

 

Embuldeniya is quite good in home conditions and their spinners bowled really well in odi series on these pitches.

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12 minutes ago, Nikola said:

 

Embuldeniya is quite good in home conditions and their spinners bowled really well in odi series on these pitches.

 

They were average against English batters last year. Don't think they have it in them to run through the Aussie lineup. Khawaja, Smith, Marnus are all good players of spin. 

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19 minutes ago, Nikola said:

Saw a bit of Swepson today and damn he seems quite impressive. Not talking about turn and wickets he got but he has been consistent and getting good drift.

 

Both top class balls especially the one to De silva. He'll be an unknown commodity so not sure how our guys play him next year. Leggies usually don't trouble us so much so that's a good thing. 

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Just now, Norman said:

 

Both top class balls especially the one to De silva. He'll be an unknown commodity so not sure how our guys play him next year. Leggies usually don't trouble us so much so that's a good thing. 

 

Even if he does well against top orders he will be clueless when pant, jadeja attacks him.

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1 hour ago, Norman said:

 

They were average against English batters last year. Don't think they have it in them to run through the Aussie lineup. Khawaja, Smith, Marnus are all good players of spin. 

root is better than all 3. he is not as good as smith if the latter was in peak form but he is not. root single handedly bashed the SL spin attack around. I don't think Smith can do that. marnus is likely to be only so-so vs spin if the pitch begins to break up. the big threat is khawaja, but he is a grinder and not an attacker like root.

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1 hour ago, Norman said:

 

Yes. 

 

But cannot bank on Sri Lanka at all. Their current spinners are nowhere near the level of Herath, Dilruwan. 

not herath level for sure. but potentially dilruwan level.

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