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Rubbish fielding. Should have stopped that one.
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Perera looks 6 months pregnant8/166 to 222
Should have bowled Dilshan for a couple of overs and saved Malinga for the last over. Perera? LOL fail whale
Perera looks 6 months pregnant
When fit, which isn't often.Starc has the potential to be genuine all rounder.
He and watson together would be awesome for Aussies.
Pathetic stuff from umpires nothing wrong with outfield and hadn't rained in a hour..What a joke. Could have won this one and the series easily. Complete joke this. Hasn't rained for hours and they call it off? What about dew then?
Pathetic stuff from umpires nothing wrong with outfield and hadn't rained in a hour..
The outfield was fine it hadn't rained in 45 mins, the Australian bowlers and fielders were going through drills as well so the outfield wasn't too bad.why match was called off on what basis pathethic
Had it been Aus chasing that total quite certain the match would not have been abandoned.
Hopefully these jokers don't umpire againI've seen some abandoned matches but this is really a strange, at the same time a suspect one. And this is not any ordinary ground, it's SCG for gods sake.
I've seen some abandoned matches but this is really a strange, at the same time a suspect one. And this is not any ordinary ground, it's SCG for gods sake.
Yeah very strange indeed. Never seen something like this before. Does this mean now the bowling sides can call off games because of dew? I mean that's a major disadvantage for the bowling side as well.
Yeah I think from now on players should try their luck and ask umpires the fielders aren't feeling safe cos of dew, slippery and all so abandon play lol This is bizarre
Jayawardene said his team would write formally to the ICC match referee, Javagal Srinath, seeking an explanation for an inconsistency in rulings from one series to the next. Srinath had explained that play would not resume because he and the umpires Paul Reiffel and Marais Erasmus felt conditions were unfair, whereas in Sri Lanka the match referee, Andy Pycroft, had said play would only be stopped if deemed unsafe.
This robbed Sri Lanka of an ideal chance to finish the series off, having bowled superbly to restrict Australia to 9 for 222, and Jayawardene expressed surprise that a ground as rich in history and facilities as the SCG could not get the game re-started.
Conditions for calling off play
3.5.3 Suspension of play for adverse conditions of ground, weather or light
If at any time the umpires together agree that the conditions of ground, weather or light are so bad that there is obvious and foreseeable risk to the safety of any player or umpire, so that it would be unreasonable or dangerous for play to take place, then they shall immediately suspend play, or not allow play to commence or to restart. The decision as to whether conditions are so bad as to warrant such action is one for the umpires alone to make.
The fact that the grass and the ball are wet and slippery does not warrant the ground conditions being regarded as unreasonable or dangerous. If the umpires consider the ground is so wet or slippery as to deprive the bowler of a reasonable foothold, the fielders of the power of free movement, or the batsmen of the ability to play their strokes or to run between the wickets, then these conditions shall be regarded as so bad that it would be unreasonable for play to take place.