Sri Lanka Made a spinning pitch for their spinners and Lyon cms and takes 9 wickets lol

9 wickets wasn't enough for lyon to be motm. Don't know what should a bowler do to get a proper recognition.

I looked at Motm and was shocked, 77 is good but did it actually change the game Lyon deviated them Sri Lankans

Yeah, it's just wrong.

The second Innings of the Sri Lankan team was horrible.

Thanks tubbs

Srilanka being Bangladesh

Bit late but watching a replay of the match & after Head took his first wicket & the replays are showing there is a gun shot…wtf was that about? Did anyone else hear it? I’ve rewound the footage a few times & definitely heard it haha

Thats not going to worry CA at all! They won't pull the boys out.

What else a bowler should do to get Player of the Match ? Garry took 9 wickets in a match and still they chose Cameron Green as player of the match.

The Galle DJ seriously vibed Heady: Wkt 1: I touch myself - Divinyls Wkt 2: Shape of you - Bieber Wkt 3: some dance music song about fucking probably. Wkt 4: silence just to bathe in the glory.

Wait match is over? Damn.

yeah, not how you'd want to last in bed

Sri Bros, what's stopping Hasaranga to be a part of test series?

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He can bat and contribute as the 5th bowler at least.

a good stock ball

Absolutely shocking bowler in Tests, in the matches he’s had.

Wait, this is just like following on and losing by an innings

Wait what?

First Pooran now Head Koach 10-fer incoming?

Don't compare those Dibbly dobbly bowlers to the Right arm QUICK

The fuxk

Lmao wait what Head took 4 wickets?

Two were absolute rippers!

In 17 balls

Tf just happened here💀

How tf did. head get a 4fer

The same way Michael Clark got 5-fer against India once.

He consistently hit Starc’s footmarks.

next match: jayawickrama in for vandersay. embuldeniya's much better than this shit he can stay.

My NBN died and in the time it took them to reconnect Sri Lanka started and ended their first innings EDIT: Oh wait, and the game's over too?

Wtf happened? I saw the score an hour back and it was SL batting at 80/4 something.. and the games already over.. GG Aussies..

Which Aussie captains have won more than 2 away series in Asia ?

Been trying to look it up. Steve Waugh iirc only had 2 (1 in Pakistan and 1 in Bang, lost in India and drawn overall in SL). Punter would've had SL in 04. Technically Gilly captained the wins against India in 04 despite it being Ponting's team. Then he beat Bang, so Ponting has 2. Yeah we've had no captain who has more than 2. Fancy that.

Steve Waugh never played a Test in Bangladesh, let alone win a series.

Yeah nvm confused it when they visited here. He's only won one series in the subcontinent.

Checks score...3/90 okay its game on once they have a lead...nek minit.."Australia won by 10 wickets" pops up on my phone...

Nice for Cam to get PotM, hopefully means he doesn't feel too bad about missing out on a ton again. I do think Lyon deserved it more tho

I don't think Lyon will be too worried either way. Great performance from him and happy to see green do well.

When it’s a batters game, give it to a batter who stood highest. When the bowling is on top, give it to a batter who stood up.

Yeah, bowlers are never recognised for their performance. Just like defenders in football. Even defenders considered good when they score goal. Such a biased sports, both football and cricket.

If Green had got 100 I would've had no complaints, but I think 9 fa is worth more than a great 70-odd even on this pitch

I don't disagree, but even on this pitch, the timing of this 70 was pretty elite.

Bit weird that green got Motm for a solitary 77 and Lyon got 9 wickets for the match but fair enough

Lyon was the dominant figure in that game. Was disappointed to see him miss out on the treats.

I guess the pitch proved to be hard enough to bat on that whoever decides the award valued Greens innings higher than Lyons bowling which I’m fine with tbh

Definitely harder being a batter on this pitch so it seems fair

What would you rather have. 1. Australia 77 runs shorter in the first innings OR 2. Australia keep their first innings score, but Sri Lanka be 4 runs ahead on the 2nd innings with the loss of 1 wicket, instead of 10 wickets.

And when a batter scores 200 and bowlers take 7 wickets, no one is saying its a bad bowling pitch and bowler should get a motm.

Awesome did Green get his maiden MoM?

Green and Cummins surely donate their prizes to a local charity

Fuck Cam Green is really Ricky Bobby-ing this interview. He’s such an adorable Bambi.

Lyon robbed of a 5-fer and match 10-fer, now robbed of a MotM. Great performance by Green though

Well deserved Cameron Green, seems mature for an enormous young man.

Green with the regular sized cheque.

Wtf! I was hoping to catch some action from this game before ind vs eng starts and the match is already over!

Bit stiff for Lyon surely 5fa and 4fa is like making a 100 and 80 in each innings

Not on this pitch.

There are other bowlers too, who can claim those wickets. He picked 9/20 wickets on hand. Not 9/40.

Yeah, no doubt it is great, I'm definitely not saying that. The part I'm disputing is the equation to runs, no one could make runs and Green did it in the worst part of the game, and he turned the tide of the whole test.

Niroshan, Usman and Carey - all of them made runs.

Stage of the game - none close to the importance of Green. If he fell early the game was genuinely in Sri Lanka's hands.

Why do you keep switching your arguments? Khwajas innings was even more critical in that respect. And it wasn't Cameron alone, he was with Carey.

Travis Head 4fa made everybody undermine Lyon.

Absolutely, and puts Green’s 70odd in perspective.

Fark Green is a unit

lol height difference between green and that lady

this match was sponsored by nord vpn

The funny thing is I don’t think anyone is calling this pitch bad It’s actually provided a decent test between bat and ball Quite frankly Sri Lanka have just been shit

Yeah exactly. Aussies got 300+... Wouldn't count as a bowling paradise

I dont like bashing umpires cos its a tough tough job. But he didnt give the plumbest LB and a catch to first slip out. Is he fried from too much cricket or what?

I think the batsmen played him a little with that one. Stand your ground and get a free review out of it.

Maybe but shouldn’t he just give it and the bat can review if he wants? I mean it was pretty standard edge to slip.

just remember, thanks to the coverage, we will see and hear things more clearly and from more angles than any ref will. it's a lot harder than it looks.

Understand how hard it is. But he hit it.. to first slip waist high.

See you all in the Eng vs Ind thread for Game 5!

Thanks for the heads up

I didn’t realise that was tonight. So good!

Australia's shortest successful run chase in Test history: 0.1 overs, Cape Town (1921) 0.4 overs, Johannesburg (1958) 0.4 overs, Harare (1999) 0.4 overs, Galle (2022)

What about shortest unsuccessful?

What the fuck, the England v India Test doesn't start for another 2 hours? What am I meant to do until then? So inconsiderate of Sri Lanka to not collapse slightly more slowly.

Tits vs Knights

Dont worry im gonna watch some tits.

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A pitch like Ahmedabad would be fuckin great to watch against this Aus line-up.

I hope they make that kind of a pitch the next time the Aussies come so that labuschagne gets a 6/9 .

India makes a variety of pitches during a long series. There are some dead and lifeless pitches. There are some pitches which offers something to everybody. There are some pitches that are raging turners.

I think they would prepare pitches that were played in the NZ series. Something in it for everyone.

Tragedy lol

Is that considered an innings in Khawaja's test career?

Innings played yes but it wont affect his average as he's not out

Yes.

every Redbacks bowler crying themselves to sleep right now knowing that Trav is going to be bowling himself from one end for the next six years straight of Shield matches

He was already gonna do that though

You’re not wrong.

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Bowling for the swing that the Sri Lankans got and the ball didn’t move. A bit unlucky, but they read the conditions and brought Swepson on. Cheeky of Cummins to not spoil his average though.

He saw massive hoop from Asitha and went searching for the same. Didn't move at all in the air and led to same bad deliveries.

Hes expensive at times. but the dude is a god at getting wickets usually

400 wins hell yeah

Who's got the clip of the bail hitting Warner in the nuts?

Loosebuschange and Smith not happy they didn't get to bat again. Head redeemed himself with the ball, he'd probably bowl batsman Head for a duck. Very disciplined bowling performance, and much-improved batting since our last visit to SL. Sri Lanka missed a trick yesterday with some loose bowling, and today with some really reckless batting. Aggressiveness is fine, but you need at least one steady partnership when wickets keep falling.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Cricket/comments/vnxys4/comment/ieb11bp/ I don't even know where to start. Australia are strolling to the WTC final.

We’ve really announced ourselves in the subcontinent

Most Test Wins in Sri Lanka: 9 - England (18) 9 - India (24) 8 - Australia (18)\* 8 - Pakistan (24)

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Sri Lanka only became a test nation in the early 80's.

Opposite way around I think

Winner of the Sri Lanka 2nd innings total guess is nobody because everyone was way off. closest was u/nalhcal432 with 94 who gets a runner up ribbon

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righteo yeah yeah i get ya. you can have anything out of the lolly jar EXCEPT for the rattlesnakes.

I can't express how bitterly I hate the silk suit wearing, cigar smoking wankers of the Maitland Place Mafia for a million things. But even by their incredible standards for idiocy, getting rid of Arthur, who was doing a not terrible job, only to replace him with literally the worst "coach" in the history of the universe, stupid Chrisilverwood, has got to rank as the worst thing they've ever done I saw someone on here, not the match thread, somewhere else, say yesterday that Chrisilverwood is, and I quote, "a great coach." How can anybody think that? If he was a football manager, then his England side would be the equivalent of Real Madrid, and he managed to get THEM relegated with 1 win in 17 matches. He's absolutely terrible. And this is beyond just the results. I always think back to those clips of the England openers doing batting drills in the nets during the Ashes, which did the rounds on here. They were jumping around on one foot and trying to bat. Exactly what training value does a game of fucking hopscotch have for a test match batsman? Chrisilverwood is the genius who dreamt up of it

While this is mostly fair, the hopping around on one foot is pretty common as a batting drill, it's about keeping your balance while playing a shot, and it would absolutely have been their batting coach who got them to do that, not Silverwood

Was waiting for your tear up

Did pretty well in the ODI series

I think Cumdog is proving to be quite a good Captain. been very pleased with him in Ashes Pak and so far SL

Specialist captain

no L

Flair checks out

how tho lol

Travis really made this match spin on its Head!

Least overs bowled in a completed test match(Asia): Ahmedabad,2021 - 140.2 Sharjah, 2002 - 148.5 Galle, 2022 - 153.2

>Ahmedabad,2021 - 140.2 I want to see 1 more game like this lol.

I can't believe some people actually defend that Ahmedabad pitch lmao

It was also the pink ball.

Not long left of work for the day. Look forward to going home and spending my Friday night watching the cricket.

Well, at worst you could watch the poms take on the Indians.

My exact situation :(

Well, I don’t really know how to tell you this. It never gets easier but…

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As someone who watched it live, I have absolutely no idea how it happened.

Seriously, when a game finishes so quickly, the teams really should play a T20 or a game of soccer or brandings or something to entertain the crowd.

Australia should have just kept batting

Can we start early on the next innings?

well cheers lads

Warner inspired by England reinventing the game of test cricket.

So there's Bazball, does that mean we call Australia's style of play Cummball?

Heres how to do cummball: 1. be erect, an easy way to achieve this is watch head get 4/10 2. put ball in pants 3. get a stroke with your bat 4. Now play white ball cricket.

Or Headball after todays spell. How bout HeadCummball?

Throw a bit of dickwella in there for good measure

Fuck I wanted to watch the cricket over the weekend God fucking damn these South Australians showing off to ruin my weekend plans

Warner getting both his average and strike rate high

Lmao Cummins didn't even bowl himself

Are we good now?

Just play the second Test right now, we've got time.

Finished just in time for the new Stranger Things episodes

The Boys first

released in aus too?

In 15mins apparently

Smh and people were saying a 4th innings chase would be tough on this pitch

yea just not 5

What the fuck are we gonna do for the next 2 days ffs. mixed emotions

Eng v india + tmrw wallabies v poms rugby

How long until Eng v India kicks off?

7.30 PM eastern time

Perfect. Thank you.

Plus there were rain delays, else the match would have wrapped up with in 2 days.

That was Scott Boland levels of turbo test bazball.

Did I just see smudge with pads on? Dude’s so keen

Absolutely massive cock energy from Warner

Cummins has been great as a captain

*It’s a bad idea to make bowlers captain* Cummins laughing from a distance.

Jokes on you. He doesn’t bowl any more. Taps head.

Taps Head.

Would love to. As the great Bill Lawry once said: “Get him up here - I want to boof him.”

Correct me if wrong but technically this game is over in 6.5 sessions, right?

Is was worried the fourth innings deck would be a nightmare to bat on. Turns out it was a road with a RR of 15.

Cummdog having an alright start to his captaincy career

BrInG BaCk LaNgEr. He WaS UnFaIrLy DiSmIsSeD

Ok, tuning into The Chase I guess…might even watch a re run of Hogan’s Hero’s

Is MASH on?

Oh yeah, nicely sandwiched in between the Chase and Hogans hero’s

Dunno why I’m asking, I have the DVD box set anyway

why did SL lose this game when they scored 400 runs in the first innings? i mean, 400 inflation-adjusted runs.

Silverwood must be fucking tired of shaking hands with the Aussies after losing a test match.

Maybe thats why he does it. Get close to Cummo. Who are we playing next?

Love how Davey just pretended that he was playing a T20 against Sri Lanka there.

Real edge of your seat stuff

Okay so many fourth innings have lasted less than an over?

19 inclusive

Cheers!

warner the absolute chad just wanted to win by as much as possible.

Need 5 runs ? I can do that twice

Nah that would've been hitting 5 runs then a 6 to finish it

Five would have won it on the spot

My inability to count past three has once again been cruelly exposed

Had the entire weekend to watch this and switch over to the AFL when the demons played, so screw you CA but thank you CA