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The WACA in Perth will host its second One Day International game in three days as hosts Australia play Sri Lanka. We’ll bring you the live scores and commentary of the action starting at 12.20 local time on Friday (15:20 ADST)
Australia picked up what turned out to be an easy win against India in their opener and will be gunning to make it two in two.
Sri Lanka, on the other hand, have yet to open their account. They will hope for a much improved performance against the home team. Their batting is bound to be tested by a pace attack that will relish the WACA conditions.
Against India, Sri Lanka surprisingly struggled to the slow bowlers but the attack will not get more contrasting against the home side. On a bouncy pitch Mitchell Starc, Ryan Harris and Clint McKay will come hard at the top-order.
Tillakaratne Dilshan’s form at the top and Dinesh Chandimal’s maturity in the middle will be a source of great relief for the visitors. It will be up to one of the top-order batsmen to convert his start into something more ample.
While the ‘Lankans went into the India game replete with pace bowlers, they could drop one of them to make way for Rangana Herath.
Herath has never played Australia and his bowling average jumps to a dreadful 56 away from home in this format of the game, which is probably the one reason he didn’t feature against India.
The news from the Australian camp is that Peter Forrest could make his debut in this game but there are big question-marks over who will step out to allow him that chance.
With Michael Clarke and Matthew Wade virtually sealed in the order, one of Dave Warner, the Hussey brothers or Ricky Ponting could be dropped to make way for Forrest. Given that none of them will want to voluntarily sit out of the game, it could make things interesting.
The bowling should remain the same despite the temptation to play an extra pace bowler. Just for the sake of variety, Xavier Doherty will continue to remain in the playing 11 which means that Mitchell Marsh may have to wait his chance.
Given Australia’s current form, they should romp home easily despite Sri Lanka’s last ODI series in this country had resulted in a 2-1 win for the visitors.
We will bring you the coverage throughout this third CB series ODI between Australia and Sri Lanka from WACA in Perth and hope to receive your opinions as the action unfolds.
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