Posts Tagged "Sri Lankan cricket"

Before the days of juggernauts like Hayden and Sehwag, any opening batsmen would tell you the best way to play the new ball is from the non-strikers end, with the importance of getting off strike crucial to the start of any successful innings.

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Michael Clarke’s first series as Australian Test captain begins tonight at Galle, and already he’s a ground-breaker before he tosses. He’s the first tattooed skipper of the baggy greens. And multi-tatts to boot.

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Australia go into their three-day tour match against a Sri Lanka Board XI with their line-up for the first Test in the island nation still up in the air, according to captain Michael Clarke.

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Inspired by a century to opener Upul Tharanga and a five-wicket haul by Lasith Malinga, Sri Lanka bounced back in emphatic fashion on Tuesday in their one-day series against Australia.

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Ricky Ponting had to deal with replacing a fair number of cricketing champions in the past few years, so he can understand the challenges facing Sri Lanka captain Tillakaratne Dilshan right now.

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From its glory days back in the early part of the century, Australian cricket seems to have hit a crossroad. The Australian side is now the fifth ranked Test team in the world and faces a summer which could make things worse.

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Unorthodox Sri Lanka bowler Ajantha Mendis has left Australia in a spin to seal a thrilling eight-run victory in a mesmerising second and final Twenty20 match on Monday.

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When will the Australian selectors learn? When you visit the Indian subcontinent you take an experienced spinner or two as if your life depended on it. You cannot go to Cherrapunji, with an annual rainfall of 3000 mm, without an umbrella and you cannot tour the Indian subcontinent without a spinner who has bowled there.

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Cricket Australia (CA) have been assured by Sri Lankan officials they will provide the level of security previously promised for this year’s tour, despite an announced 80 per cent cut in the security budget.

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Mahendra Singh Dhoni is the toast of India today. He can write his own ticket. Despite being overcome by the heat, the Indian skipper shared a fourth wicket stand of 109 with Gautam Gambhir (97), and an unbroken 54 for the fifth with Yuvraj Singh (21*), to win the World Cup in Mumbai over Sri [...]

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The art of prophecy, for all its temptations, offers little but the chance to embarrass oneself in the near future. And yet, like appearing in Flava Flav reality TV shows, or going to Texan pubs to ride the mechanical bull, people keep lining up for their turn at indignity.

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What do you think will happen if Muttiah Muralitharan accepts an invitation to run his eye over Australia’s spin stocks at the Centre of Excellence? Will we end up with a generation of bowlers with controversial actions? Or will we end up with a generation of bowlers with a little more knowledge of the hardest [...]

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It seemed that some of the madness of Sri Lanka’s miracle win in Melbourne had seeped into Friday, as the visitors claimed a historic victory to win their first ever series on Australian soil. First it was the selectors who had apparently lost their minds, as they rewarded Xavier Doherty’s 4/46 by dropping him for [...]

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Angelo Mathews and Lasith Malinga pulled a victory out for the jaws of defeat with a world record stand for the ninth wicket against Australia, and in the process highlighted Australia’s continual inability to finish sides off.

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One-day cricket has taken a battering in recent times: boring, uninspiring and too time consuming are reasons usually associated with the decline of the 50-over format.

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The humble ODI has received a battering the past few years, with the emergence of the hotpanted gyrating twenty-over form of the game relegating it to the status of dowdy older sister beside Test cricket’s venerable maiden aunt.

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Australia’s continued inability to kill off the opposition cost them dearly in Wednesday night’s amazing one-day cricket loss to Sri Lanka at the MCG.

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Australian cricket captain Ricky Ponting has backed batsman Mike Hussey to regain form for the Ashes and endorsed him to stay with the one-day side.

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The last international cricket match Muttiah Muralidaran probably plays at the MCG should be a lot less eventful than his first. The off-spinning great will be in the Sri Lankan side on Wednesday afternoon for the first of three one-dayers against Australia.

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Australia will attempt to use their upcoming three-game one-day cricket series against Sri Lanka to rebuild their dented confidence ahead of this summer’s Ashes series.

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