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AUS to bat 1st.

Vaas has been dropped for L Malinga.

Australia team
ML Hayden, PA Jaques, RT Ponting, MJ Clarke, A Symonds, MEK Hussey, wicketkeeperAC Gilchrist, B Lee, MG Johnson, SR Clark, SCG MacGill

Sri Lanka team
ST Jayasuriya, MS Atapattu, wicketkeeperKC Sangakkara, MG Vandort, DPMD Jayawardene, LPC Silva, HAPW Jayawardene, CRD Fernando, SL Malinga, MF Maharoof, M Muralitharan
 
Ouch for Vaas! Dropped on his 100TH TEST!
 
yesterday Jayawerdene hinted on Vaas getting dropped.
and Ponting said the pitch might start spinning first day
 
Only the 7th ever test match to be played at hobart, am shocked so few tests have been played here!
 
Hayden lucky. LBW not given off Malinga. Hotspot showed no edge (atleast commentator thinks so)
Aus 5-0 after 5 overs

edit: anlayzed it again and I am not sure what they are saying as there is a mark on the bat too but was it the bat hitting the pad or edge

umpire was Aleem Daar so must be correct decision :)
 
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Why does Maharoof keep getting picked?

First SL dropped their main strike bowler for this guy and now they drop their trusted veteran.
 
a difficult runnot chance against Jacques missed by diving Malinga throwing underarm and missing the stumps by couple of inches

Fernando strikes. Hayden out ct behind
Aus 48-1 fter 19.1 overs
 
Players on the field after lunch. Jaques 48 Ponting 16
Aus 86-1 after 27 overs
 
The sightscreen at the ground is probably couple of feet wider than the pitch. Never seen one so small on other grounds.
Aus 114-1 after 36 overs
Jaques 70 Ponting 20
 
Ponting out on 31 ct at 1st slip by Jayawerdene off Murali
Aus 133-2
 
where do these guys come from Jaques, pockus, dokus.. he comes and makes 2 centuries in a row.
 
jackal786 said:
where do these guys come from Jaques, pockus, dokus.. he comes and makes 2 centuries in a row.
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Its Australia ... they were born to make centuries and take wickets!
 
Jaques playing a decent old innings, eh.
 
Score update

Code: 
Australia 226/2 (63.1 ov)
Sri Lanka
	Australia won the toss and elected to bat first

Day 1 - Session 3 	Australia RR 3.57
Last 10 ovs 46/0 RR 4.60

Min overs remaining 26.5
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Hours of play: 10.30am start, Lunch 12.30-1.10pm, Tea 3.10-3.30pm, Close 5.30pm
Current time: 16:02 local, 05:02 GMT
																
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		Test career
	Batsmen 	Runs 	B 	4s 	6s 	SR 	This bowler 	Last 10 ovs 			Mat 	Runs 	Ave 		
	*PA Jaques (lhb) 	136 	201 	17 	0 	67.66 		29 (50b) 	27 (33b) 			4 	332 	83.00 		
	MEK Hussey (lhb) 	28 	65 	3 	0 	43.07 		0 (0b) 	14 (31b) 			18 	1758 	83.71 		
  			
	Bowlers 	O 	M 	R 	W 	Econ 			Current spell 			Mat 	Wkts 	Ave 		
	*SL Malinga (rf) 	14.1 	4 	45 	0 	3.17 		(4nb, 0w) 	0.1-0-1-0 			25 	83 	31.27 		
	M Muralitharan (ob) 	16.0 	1 	45 	1 	2.81 		(0nb, 0w) 	14-1-37-1 			115 	703 	21.54
 
12thMan said:
The sightscreen at the ground is probably couple of feet wider than the pitch. Never seen one so small on other grounds.
Aus 114-1 after 36 overs
Jaques 70 Ponting 20
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Tendulkar would have a field day
 
13 runs off that last over.

Australia 247/2

Oh man, I can't imagine how we are going to do against Aus....
 
Bobaran said:
13 runs off that last over.

Australia 247/2

Oh man, I can't imagine how we are going to do against Aus....
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Well lets look at it this way ... can't be any worse than the Lankans? Can it???
 
And the pathetic state of Test Match cricket continues ... SL struggling once again at stumps on Day 1. 3/329 (Jacques 150, Hussey 101*).
 
Is Hussey as good as Bradman?
 
No. Averages a whole 12 runs less ;-)

I think he's just spent so long in FC cricket perfecting his game, he's just cashing in now knowing that he'll only have another 4/5 years max of test cricket at his age. He's not a batting genius like a Lara or a Ponting, but his desire to make runs pretty much compensates for it. Won't finish with an average of 88, more around 60s i'd imagine.
 
Aussies struggling as per usual.

I see that they are already missing Langer and D martyn. Jacques and M hussey dont really seem to be up to test standard, am sure when it comes to bowling Aussies will miss Mcgrath and Warne as well ;)
 
Hash,

Hussey is MR Cricket and could be better then Bradman!

We play Aussies at home and we are in for a pasting!
 
Amjid Javed said:
Hash,

Hussey is MR Cricket and could be better then Bradman!

We play Aussies at home and we are in for a pasting!
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The thing is Amjid. When people compare cricketers to greats they often get laughed at. And quite often it is a joke (we even have our own Suhaib Bradman here at pakpassion). But in the case of Hussey....it might well be the case! He just keeps getting runs! Everybody says that average will tail off but to be honest, I can't see it!

I bet he is licking his lips at the thought of batting on Pakistani wickets come March!
 
Watched the first forty minutes last night and thought Sri Lanka bowled really well. Hayden could have been out to Malinga, and any slight movement off the pitch had Jaques all over the place. Credit to him for getting a hundred, but I don't see him scoring runs against good swing bowling. Still, make the runs when you can and grind them out when you can't. Good start for him, albeit against a flat, now resigned Sri Lanka side. They simply don't have the batsman to compete.
 
I think his average will tail off sligthly but i think he will end his career with an average of around 60/5 and how many players have had lengthy test careers (20+ tests) and done that? Not many!!

He had to wait almost a decade to get into the team and hes taken his chance with both hands!
 
kablooee87 said:
Why does Maharoof keep getting picked?

First SL dropped their main strike bowler for this guy and now they drop their trusted veteran.
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Maharoof actually bowled quite well in his first spell. He was getting some movement, even though this pitch is quite flat. What he does do better than Vaas is get the odd one to bounce off a good length. He was unlucky not to pick up a wicket or two in the morning. Malinga also bowled well without much luck, but from lunch onwards the Aussies just took control.
 
Sri lanka bowled well in morning but just didnt take their half chances and from there on Aussies just put their foot down and wracked up runs for fun. another 500+ total looms on horizon!
 
Sri Lankans were mouthing off at the begining of the series and look whats happening to them now. 100 more runs for Aus and they are virtually out of the series.
 
Amjid Javed said:
He had to wait almost a decade to get into the team and hes taken his chance with both hands!
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This is what I respect about Hussey. It must be frustrating waiting for a decade to get into the side, but he's made the most of his opportunity and has put forward a very strong case for continued selection.
 
I think that barring a collapse tomorrow, the OZ will try and aim for about 550+ as a declaration score. Then the real challenge will be for our new-look post-Warne-Pidge bowling attack to step up for a second Test in a row. I'm very curious to see if MacGill and Johnson can hold their spots or if they will be dumped for the Indian series.
 
jackal786 said:
where do these guys come from Jaques, pockus, dokus.. he comes and makes 2 centuries in a row.
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Jaques just toured Pakistan for the 'A' team tour.

Jaques 370 runs @ 123
David Hussey 300 runs @ 100
Hopes 178 runs @ 89

Pakistan's top batsmen
Faisal Iqbal 131 runs @ 44
Sarfaraz Ahmed 118 runs @ 39
 
Can someone explaing this:

...Three major international news agencies have settled major media rights dispute with Cricket Australia.

The Associated Press, Reuters and Agence France-Presse all began providing coverage of the Hobart Test on Friday after failing to produce any material from the Brisbane Test.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/cricket/7095929.stm

so does this mean that during the first test these news agencies couldn't report anything? or this about ball to ball coverage?
 
12thMan said:
Can someone explaing this:

...Three major international news agencies have settled major media rights dispute with Cricket Australia.

The Associated Press, Reuters and Agence France-Presse all began providing coverage of the Hobart Test on Friday after failing to produce any material from the Brisbane Test.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/cricket/7095929.stm

so does this mean that during the first test these news agencies couldn't report anything? or this about ball to ball coverage?
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The dispute was over photography rights.
 
Thanks. It just seems strange that cricket business will get to a point that photographers of international agencies are not allowed in stadium
 
Maiden over by Malinga. Hussey vs Malinga 46 runs off 52 balls
Aus 346-3 after 95 overs
Hussey 106 Clarke 20
 
Maharoof off injured - so they're a bowler down!
 
playing with 4 bowlers is a risky business. Maharoof has a back problem so either the other two pacers bowl more or it is Jayasuriya. Jayasuriya is fine in ODIs but not sure about tests. All teams need a test all rounder. SA has Kallis and Eng has/had Flintoff. Australia saw it in 2005 and went for Watson or Symonds
 
12thMan said:
All teams need a test all rounder. SA has Kallis and Eng has/had Flintoff. Australia saw it in 2005 and went for Watson or Symonds
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And we have Afridi - I look forward to seeing how he performs with bat & ball in the forthcoming test series v India.
 
Oxy said:
And we have Afridi - I look forward to seeing how he performs with bat & ball in the forthcoming test series v India.
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surprise move there because a 5th bowling option is needed. I am sure that before Razzaq and Afridi were both persisted because of the bowler unsurity and to get a specialist bowler was weakening the batting. So they went in middle as they couldn't fine a specialist bowler or batsman who could bat or bowl
 
chakkkaaa by Hussey off Murali
Aus 389-3 cruising to 550 :111:
Clarke 50
Aus 391-3
 
Supreme fitness enables them to maintain their sustained aggression over bowlers.
 
players walking off. must be the choolay wala doing his round but umpires don't look that interested as they are walking too slowly. Must be to avoid the rush and pushing
Aus 392-3
 
just heard something by Ian Chapple

- in 1973 there was an one off test against Pakistan, On the last day Paksitan needed 290 something to win. Jeff Thomson came to Ian Chapell (the captain) and said I can't bowl. Ian asked why and Thomo said he has a broken leg (since the match started???). Ian asked him why he didn't tell him before and Thomo said because he wanted to play.

For some reason they are advertiszing Thomo today. maybe Malinga connection (They were showing the two actions side by side) or might be his birthday or start of his career.

Lunch taken
 
12thMan said:
Thanks. It just seems strange that cricket business will get to a point that photographers of international agencies are not allowed in stadium
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It's just Cricket Australia being greedy like most professional sporting bodies are these days. Their argument is that agency photographers take photos for free and then sell them to newspapers globally for a profit. The agencies argue that they've always taken photos for free and that they will not pay for news.

It finally got sorted out, some compromise was obviously reached. By the way, this doesn't mean there was no coverage - obviously Cricinfo and individual news media (e.g. Fox, Star, ESPN, the Sydney Morning Herald etc) all covered it - it was just the news agencies (Reuters, AFP, etc) that were barred.
 
I wonder what will be next .... Boards having their fees and players asking for royalties for every picture used while they play. So ofcourse you can't get in unless you pay the board. and you can't take pictures of the game unless you pay the players. This commercialism is too much

still rain delay. lunch time has passed. They are saying match should start in about 17 minutes
 
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players came in and they are going off. I think it is because of the outfield is wet and the ball got wet and not because it is raining
Aus 401-3
 
Gilchrist became the first player to hit 100 sixes in tests. His third six yesterday, sweep shot off Murali, went out of the ground.
Aus 542-5 dec

SL 30-0

Maharoof has a stress fracture in his foot or ankle and is out for 5 weeks
 
the broadcast just started here (half hour late) and SL has already lost two wickets. Atapattu and Vandort put by Brett Lee
SL 62-2
 
12thMan said:
Gilchrist became the first player to hit 100 sixes in tests. His third six yesterday, sweep shot off Murali, went out of the ground.
Aus 542-5 dec

SL 30-0

Maharoof has a stress fracture in his foot or ankle and is out for 5 weeks
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Yes that is the biggest six in the history of cricket.
 
Mitchel Johnson just bowled a 149.6 k ball. an off ball in the over as the others have been low 140s this over
SL 99-2 :111:
 
MacGilla getting punished, going at 5rpo after 4 overs. SL 2/113
 
Sangakkar out ct at gully by Hussey off Johnson :120:
SL 127-3
Jayasuriya in
 
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It is phenomenal to see how much thought process from Aussie batsmen is going into a batting against a bowler. It is almost listening to a science. When you look at the some of the subcontinent players who do not have any game plan against any bowler we know why Aussies are at the top.
 
Good bowling by Lee and especially Johnson, I'm really impressed with him - mid 140s kph consistently, with good line and swing.
 
SL struggling to avoid the follow on, 5/152. Two Jayawardenes out in the middle. MacGill has taken 2 after looking ordinary earlier.
 
The "other" Jayawardene gone for a duckski.

55.4 Clark to HAPW Jayawardene, OUT, what a beauty! outstanding seam bowling, Glenn McGrath must be smiling, probing outside off, just a bit of seam movement, enough to take the edge and that sails through to the keeper, he deserved that wicket Clark, magnificent piece of bowling all morning, Sri Lanka sink deeper and deeper
HAPW Jayawardene c wicketkeeperGilchrist b Clark 0 (5b 0x4 0x6) SR: 0.00
 
69.5 Lee to Fernando, OUT, and that's gone, full and wide and Fernando actually chases it, it was a yorker-length ball though it was wide and Fernando followed it, the ball deflected off the bat, the bat struck the ground and Gilchrist took a fine catch diving to his right. Gilchrist isn't sure, Lee lets out a faint appeal and umpire Rudi Koertzen lifts the dreaded finger,spot on decision too. Fernando gone before tea
CRD Fernando c wicketkeeperGilchrist b Lee 2 (8b 0x4 0x6) SR: 25.00

SL 8/208
 
DM said:
Good bowling by Lee and especially Johnson, I'm really impressed with him - mid 140s kph consistently, with good line and swing.
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DM, i know u're a speed nut, but seriously?? mitch johnson??
his length has always disappointed me. i think he's a more of an ODI quickie than a test one.
only bowls back off a length, which is quite defensive. needs to pitch it up by atleast a yard.
 
OZGOD, wager a 20 on brett lee failing to take a 5fer.
he just duznt seem to know how.

7 5fers in 60 tests?? thats shameful.
somehow in recent years oz bowlers have forgotten how to pick upthose big hauls. All 2s, 3s and 4s, but no sight of 6fers and 7fers.

it's a strange trend, but i've noticed most bowlers hardly go beyond 5 wickets these days.
 
Perth93 said:
OZGOD, wager a 20 on brett lee failing to take a 5fer.
he just duznt seem to know how.

7 5fers in 60 tests?? thats shameful.
somehow in recent years oz bowlers have forgotten how to pick upthose big hauls. All 2s, 3s and 4s, but no sight of 6fers and 7fers.

it's a strange trend, but i've noticed most bowlers hardly go beyond 5 wickets these days.
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That's probably because of 2 reasons:

1) Lee has been bowling with McGrath and Warne for the past several years
2) Lee is crap
 
Australia 111/1 at stumps.

111/1 after 20 overs.....I'd feel good about that kind of start in an ODI.
 
OZGOD said:
That's probably because of 2 reasons:

1) Lee has been bowling with McGrath and Warne for the past several years
2) Lee is crap
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If he is crap what are bowlers like Sami, Gul, Agarkar :p
 
@OZGOD - Lee is maturing into a very fine bowler, and has an excellent bowling record since the 2005 ASHES series.
 
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