Australia V Sri Lanka 5th ODI

[SirShire]

Sri Lanka require another 59 runs with 3 wickets and 14.2 overs remaining

Australia RR: 3.96
Sri Lanka RR: 3.93
Required RR: 4.12

 

[SirShire]

7/144

They are sneaking in the odd boundary now.

 

[SirShire]

7/152

Kasper needs to be brought back in.

They are developing a partnership that really needs to be broken.

47 need for a SL win.

 

[SirShire]

Ok so right now they need 42 runs from 58 balls.

 

[SirShire]

Why are they not putting the quicks back on?

The SLs are having no trouble getting runs off Hogg and Symo.

7/159

 

[SirShire]

Symo just completed a very tidy over. Only the 1 run off it.

26 runs needed off 42 balls, and they have bought the quicks back on.

7/163 lets go Binga!

 

[SirShire]

24 needed off 37.

Bing is being smashed.

F#$%!

 

[SirShire]

That was a 14 run bloody over. Including the no ball.

Kasper!!!!!!

They need 17 runs from 30 balls

 

[SirShire]

9 runs needed off 26 balls. Hogg got smashed for 6.

If they let any of the part timers or Lee bowl the next over, Gilchrist will be nursing a broken arm.

 

[SirShire]

Maiden by Kasper. Shame he wasnt bowling before.

 

[SirShire]

Thats it guts. SL come away with the win. They made hard work of it, but full credit to their tail end.

We could have put more pressure on IMHO

 

[weasel]

Symmo won man of the series with 211 @ 105.50 and 5 wickets @ 42.80. Ponting must have been close too, 257 runs and four half-centuries from four innings. Kasper deserves a mention too, he was second in the wicket takers for the series with 8 and only played three games. His bowling average was 12.75.

 

[Doctor]

How often do we see it though?
Australia win the series (Test or ODI) and lose the next dead-rubber match/es.
While this trend will never bite you on the backside (because you've already won), it doesn't help your confidence going into the next series.

The Test matches will be a tighter affair - Murali on 3rd, 4th and 5th day wickets will be dynamite. I think we may find a few spinners rushed into the side - Warne and MacGill, but also Symonds perhaps if they see the need for mediums early and spin later.

Lehmann and Katich can both bowl a bit too, so perhaps they will use these two as the extra spinners.

 

[ozbash]

congratulations Sri Lanka.