Sri Lanka captain Angelo Mathews has been ruled out of the remainder of the one-day series against Australia due to a calf muscle injury, Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) said on Friday.
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“In these conditions you’re going to have to sweep, you’re going to have to use your feet”.
Irrespective of the pitch, both teams are aware of the need to play quality and consistent cricket for 100 overs to win the match.
George Bailey made telling contributions in the one-day series against Sri Lanka.
All six Australian bowlers claimed a share of the spoils, with frontline paceman Mitchell Starc (3-40) once again in damaging form.
Bailey made 44 from 73 balls as Australia chased down Sri Lanka’s total of 195 with five wickets in hand and seven overs remaining. But, it is not going to be easy for Sri Lanka as Australia are upbeat after their terrific win in the last ODI by 6 wickets.
“They haven’t been suited to the way we play, but we’ve adapted really well with the ball as well”.
The Sri Lanka team has been just the shadow of their test team who clean swiped Australia by 3-0. Wade and Bailey have countered the sluggish Sri Lankan pitches with aplomb in the ODIs. Starc is likely to be rested from the dead rubber, leaving quicks Scott Boland, John Hastings and James Faulkner and spinners Nathan Lyon and Adam Zampa to carry the attack.
“The Dilscoop, I first tried in 2008 in South Africa against Australia because I knew nobody could stand behind the wicketkeeper”, Dilshan recalled after playing his last ODI match last week.
“We didn’t adapt fast enough”, opening batsman David Warner said of the Test series loss. Sri Lanka appealed but chose not to review Aleem Dar’s decision who had adjudged it not out.
“David Warner, it’s great to see him getting some leadership experience over there, but he’s come out and said that people want to see games like. where England scored 444 in a one-dayer (against Pakistan at Trent Bridge last week)”, Taylor told Channel Nine’s Wide World of Sports last Sunday.
Half the Australian squad could change for next February’s tour of India in what shapes as the most radical and hotly debated shake-up of the Test line-up in years.
Sri Lanka’s best start of the tour was squandered lavishly by the middle and lower order, as the hosts lost batsmen in clusters, then failed to build significant partnerships before the next cascade of wickets came around. Complicating matters is that while Khawaja struggled in Sri Lanka he was the tourists’ second highest run scorer in those two matches previous year, averaging 37.
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“He’s been a fantastic player in these conditions for a while now”.
