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Will Sri Lanka create history by becoming the second Asian team to win a Test series in Australia?

BreadPakoda said:
Well you never know! Who would have thought WI would destroy England the way they did.
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Eng has lost to weak WI many times in WI. SL lacks bowlers to pull those kind of performances. Sure, anything can happen in cricket, but just talking about likelihood.
 
Looks like it's heading towards an innings victory for Australia. Hopes of undermining the Indian victory seems to be vanishing quicker than the England collapse.
 
These guys are gradually gaining confidence. SL bowling is not that bad. Spin is really weak. I am not sure how the heck Usman Khawaja got out to this guy. Pathetic. Third bowler is still learning. He is not bad though.
 
Don't expect them to be the second Asian team. It will be either us or bangladesh.
 
ex-q-zit said:
Looks like it's heading towards an innings victory for Australia. Hopes of undermining the Indian victory seems to be vanishing quicker than the England collapse.
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Those who do not rate India saw the Indian victories in Australia and assumed that others would be able to replicate them. The reality is that getting 20 Aussie wickets in a Test is not easy, as SL is currently finding out. Other countries simply do not have bowlers like Bumrah, Jadeja, Shami, Ishant, Bhuvi etc.
 
SL doesn't have anyone like Kohli, Pujara and Bumrah. Even other Indian bowlers were far more disciplined.

Talking about weak Aus side is fine, but you have to play better than them to win series in their den. Easier said than done.
 
aukhan said:
They don't invite Bangladesh but i think they are capable of beating the current Aus side.
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Bangladesh struggle to take ten wickets in a match in SENA countries. One needs to take twenty wickets in a match to win the match. Bagladesh will continue to lose each and every match that it plays in SENA countries.
 
Credit to Australia for punching above their weight in this test so far.
 
Stalin said:
Why so lame ? :dhoni

Anyways.... No half decent team can score 600+ against Starc, Lyon, Hazlewood and Cummins . No matter how flat the wicket is . And that is why no half decent team can "kick in the gut" of this Australian team especially in Australia.
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Australian bowlers were tired after playing back to back tests. The batting group of Australia without its leaders did not give a chance for their bowlers to even breathe. Credit to Pujara, they were bowled to ground by Paine. And remember it was the last of the test matches. You should know this better after having seen the whitewashes galore in 2011-12 where English batsmen piled on but Indians never got a go. Very similar. Only difference being Indian batting was packed with 'legends' and this Australia team didn't have its batting leaders. Also the scoreline was respectable 2-1 (could be 1-2 or 0-3 if tosses went Australia's way) against 4-0 of legendary India's.
 
Napa said:
Just because some commentator said something doesn't mean that you stop thinking. The reason there was no result was that the last two days were washed out. Otherwise Australia would have likely lost.
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Khawaja and team saved a test on 5th day against Yasir in UAE. I wouldn't put it past them to survive against a tired Indian bowling attack on a flat pitch.
 
Shandarchowka said:
Australian bowlers were tired after playing back to back tests. The batting group of Australia without its leaders did not give a chance for their bowlers to even breathe. Credit to Pujara, they were bowled to ground by Paine. And remember it was the last of the test matches. You should know this better after having seen the whitewashes galore in 2011-12 where English batsmen piled on but Indians never got a go. Very similar. Only difference being Indian batting was packed with 'legends' and this Australia team didn't have its batting leaders. Also the scoreline was respectable 2-1 (could be 1-2 or 0-3 if tosses went Australia's way) against 4-0 of legendary India's.
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Mate, you need to sort your thoughts. Are tosses the reason for teams winning matches? If yes why are SL losing? Why did Pak lose after winning 2 tosses at as most SA?

Coming to your excuse no. 543790755433, indian bowlers too were playing back to back matches. In this day and age each team is aware as to how critical fitness is. If Aussies couldn't cope up with the tight schedule they have themselves to blame.

You havent yet answered my previous question? When was the last time Pak scored 600+ against any opposition?
 
ex-q-zit said:
Mate, you need to sort your thoughts. Are tosses the reason for teams winning matches? If yes why are SL losing? Why did Pak lose after winning 2 tosses at as most SA?

Coming to your excuse no. 543790755433, indian bowlers too were playing back to back matches. In this day and age each team is aware as to how critical fitness is. If Aussies couldn't cope up with the tight schedule they have themselves to blame.

You havent yet answered my previous question? When was the last time Pak scored 600+ against any opposition?
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Just so you know, Australia fieded at Melbourne for 2 freaking days on a flattt pitch. Then Australian batting crumbled on a deteriorating surface in 2 sessions. Then India batted again without letting Australian bowlers rest, to their credit. Even though India also crumbled in the deteriorating pitch, the deed was done. Australian bowlers were down in fitness and speed for the rest of the series.

Due credit to Pujara for making it count but I just wanted to put things into perspective.
 
Shandarchowka said:
Khawaja and team saved a test on 5th day against Yasir in UAE. I wouldn't put it past them to survive against a tired Indian bowling attack on a flat pitch.
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You are contradicting yourself. On one hand you give an excuse for poor batting performance due to absence of 'batting leaders', on the other hand you say they can bat out 2 whole days after being enforced to follow-on. It can only be either of these situations and not both.

Seems like all your prayers for SL win have gone unanswered. I can send you some burnol. Let me know where to send them
 
Sachin136 said:
Seriously? At least try to hide your bias.
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There's no bias. I'm just taking out facts and applying them to situations. What makes you think India would have got Australia all out twice? Last I checked, Roston Chase and Shane Dowrich held India for an entire day on a spinning pith in West Indies. Handscomb and Marsh also stopped India from winning one entire day back in India too. What's so surprising and sounding bias in my post?
 
Shandarchowka said:
There's no bias. I'm just taking out facts and applying them to situations. What makes you think India would have got Australia all out twice? Last I checked, Roston Chase and Shane Dowrich held India for an entire day on a spinning pith in West Indies. Handscomb and Marsh also stopped India from winning one entire day back in India too. What's so surprising and sounding bias in my post?
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FACTS........

As far as I know you are only putting ifs and buts not FACTS.

If Smith and Warner were there............
If Aussie bowlers weren't tired...............
If Aus had won the toss..............
If the pitch wasn't flat...............

Fact means reality. The only reality is India has won Down Under and Pak has never.
 
Shandarchowka said:
Australian bowlers were tired after playing back to back tests. The batting group of Australia without its leaders did not give a chance for their bowlers to even breathe. Credit to Pujara, they were bowled to ground by Paine. And remember it was the last of the test matches. You should know this better after having seen the whitewashes galore in 2011-12 where English batsmen piled on but Indians never got a go. Very similar. Only difference being Indian batting was packed with 'legends' and this Australia team didn't have its batting leaders. Also the scoreline was respectable 2-1 (could be 1-2 or 0-3 if tosses went Australia's way) against 4-0 of legendary India's.
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Pakistani fans are like clockwork it's always, CT 2017, We drew in England, whitewash under dhoni regardless of thread.

But then when a team gets whitewashed in SA, beaten at home by a rookie NZ spinner you do need something to cling on to I suppose.
 
Napa said:
Those who do not rate India saw the Indian victories in Australia and assumed that others would be able to replicate them. The reality is that getting 20 Aussie wickets in a Test is not easy, as SL is currently finding out. Other countries simply do not have bowlers like Bumrah, Jadeja, Shami, Ishant, Bhuvi etc.
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more than that most posters here seem to forget that aus have a full strength bowling attack that will be difficult to handle unless the batting quality is really good ( the current SL 1st inng score is proof of that)
 
dragon751 said:
more than that most posters here seem to forget that aus have a full strength bowling attack that will be difficult to handle unless the batting quality is really good ( the current SL 1st inng score is proof of that)
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Yes, somehow they seem to convince themselves that the absence of Warner and Smith had weakened Australian bowling as well. This Australian bowling is better than the South African bowling attack.:viru
 
aukhan said:
They don't invite Bangladesh but i think they are capable of beating the current Aus side.
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seriously ???? BD are the pits as a test team unless they are playing at home on tailor made pitches, have they even drawn a test( let alone a series) overseas?
 
latecut said:
Yes, somehow they seem to convince themselves that the absence of Warner and Smith had weakened Australian bowling as well. This Australian bowling is better than the South African bowling attack.:viru
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they are entitled to their opinion :) but there's not a lot of logic in most of those opinions
 
jagatk said:
You conveniently ignore ashwin was basically playing injured the whole series and funny enough we beat the Aussie side without kohli and an injured ashwin in India.
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So you agree one player's injury made a lot of difference? How about missing Kohli and Pujara completely? That's what happened to Australia :)
 
Shandarchowka said:
So you agree one player's injury made a lot of difference? How about missing Kohli and Pujara completely? That's what happened to Australia :)
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Given we won the series it really didn't, kohli averaged 9 that series him being or not being there would have made no difference, same with ashwin who was unable to even bend.

You could take out India's 2 best batsmen and we will still beat teams in India.
 
aukhan said:
Don't expect them to be the second Asian team. It will be either us or bangladesh.
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in tests for BD to be even considered in the same breath will take a couple of more decades given the rate of their progress in intl cricket. It will have to be pak but only if you sort out your domestic game first
 
ex-q-zit said:
Looks like it's heading towards an innings victory for Australia. Hopes of undermining the Indian victory seems to be vanishing quicker than the England collapse.
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i think this thread was started as more wishful thinking than anything else :P
 
This SL team currently is minnow level in terms of quality of cricket right now, in saying that i would still reckon they would beat Pakistan in tests in SL or in UAE.
 
Napa said:
Want to rethink that?
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Yes with this pathetic performance I am having a re-think. But last year was such a good year for them you cant deny it was better year than India had. But if they lost to Windies then for sure I must re-think.
 
Pakhs said:
Yes with this pathetic performance I am having a re-think. But last year was such a good year for them you cant deny it was better year than India had. But if they lost to Windies then for sure I must re-think.
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Didn't they get all out for 57 last year against NZ that too in conditions considered similar to home?
 
dragon751 said:
i agree, afg will progress way faster than bd in intl cricket across all formats
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They have already surpassed BD in t20is and closed the gap in Odis
its just a matter of time,all they need is few more games against top sides in tests and Odis
 
Sri Lanka need to bat positively tomorrow and get a lead of 100-120 by dinner tomorrow. In Mendis, Dickvella, and Chandimal they have 2 capable batsmen who can do that. I hope the likes of Thirimanne, Roshen Silva offer nice support to the aforementioned 3. Australia will fold in the 4th innings. Lakmal is too hot to handle for them,
 
Pakhs said:
Yes with this pathetic performance I am having a re-think. But last year was such a good year for them you cant deny it was better year than India had. But if they lost to Windies then for sure I must re-think.
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Fair enough :)
 
Pretty sure it's gonna be an innings defeat for the Lankans. Going to be a great day tomorrow here on this thread. :vk2
 
Shandarchowka said:
Sri Lanka need to bat positively tomorrow and get a lead of 100-120 by dinner tomorrow. In Mendis, Dickvella, and Chandimal they have 2 capable batsmen who can do that. I hope the likes of Thirimanne, Roshen Silva offer nice support to the aforementioned 3. Australia will fold in the 4th innings. Lakmal is too hot to handle for them,
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Mendis and chandimal gone lol who are you going to bank on now :)
 
SL needs 94 more runs to avoid innings defeat. I guess making history has to wait for another series.
 
Lanka has been unlucky tbh.

They lost the toss and Smith, Warner came back in the side and thus Aussies destroyed Lanka. If they had the luck against India, then maybe the result would've been same or that's what was said by people here.

It was hilarious to see supporters of a team which hasn't even drawn a test in Australia for god knows how long undermining India's results in the test series.
 
Sri Lanka is a joke of a team, probably cant even beat Zimbabwe or Bangladesh atm.
 
Shandarchowka said:
Sri Lanka need to bat positively tomorrow and get a lead of 100-120 by dinner tomorrow. In Mendis, Dickvella, and Chandimal they have 2 capable batsmen who can do that. I hope the likes of Thirimanne, Roshen Silva offer nice support to the aforementioned 3. Australia will fold in the 4th innings. Lakmal is too hot to handle for them,
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Hope against hope and then some. Guess the "weak" Aussies beat them by an innings and a few runs.

LOL. Here's your crow, hope you enjoy it.
 
Winning a test in Australia needs winning multiple sessions. Winning a session or two is not enough. You need to show sustained intensity.
 
Shandarchowka said:
Australia is in doldrums now without their batting leaders and India took advantage of the situation. Obvious, isn't it? South Africa had a good team and fielded a strong bowling attack and also prepared some tough pitches. Even India lost the series last year, right?
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Dr_Bassim said:
Australia could field 9 players against and we would still find a way to lose.

Let's not think Pakistan a 7th ranked team can beat Australia in home, weak as they may be.

Sri Lanka is only marginally better than us in rankings and it is almost inconceivable they will get anything other than a thrashing, toss or no toss.

In fact, I hope Sri Lanka wins the toss in all the matches to demolish the myth that anyone can beat current Australia in Australia
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Still making bets?

I am up for the next in Canberra :)

Over the long run, its proven that the better team wins, not the toss winning one.
 
Shandarchowka said:
Sri Lanka need to bat positively tomorrow and get a lead of 100-120 by dinner tomorrow. <b>In Mendis, Dickvella, and Chandimal they have 2 capable batsmen who can do that. I hope the likes of Thirimanne, Roshen Silva offer nice support to the aforementioned 3. Australia will fold in the 4th innings. Lakmal is too hot to handle for them,</b>
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Wrong on so many different counts.
 
Another list of excuses

1.Aus added Kurtis Patterson,Joe Burns & Jhye Richardson to their squad which strengthened the team.

2.SL were without Angelo Mathews & Rangana Herath.
 
India was a better team in aus this time around.

We may have flaws but we are the best in an average bunch. May be it can show how quality of test cricket has gone down. Not for one particular team but overall.

Most teams are in rebuilding phase and it is understandable. Whoever fails to rebuild by the end phase, will be wiped out like WI.
 
Shandarchowka said:
There's no bias. I'm just taking out facts and applying them to situations. What makes you think India would have got Australia all out twice? Last I checked, Roston Chase and Shane Dowrich held India for an entire day on a spinning pith in West Indies. Handscomb and Marsh also stopped India from winning one entire day back in India too. What's so surprising and sounding bias in my post?
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its sport . credit to certain batters if they managed to survive certain days. overall as an indian fan i havent seen such a pack of bowlers ever. Its hard to win in australia . most asian sides have been thrashed - closest i think india came to win on monkeygate time

sri lanka won few tests in murali era . they have never had express pacers and pakistan has never had great set of 4 batters - maybe one or two
india never had pacers too but now its changed . sooner u realize the better .


indian win was not a fluke and even if steve smith was there india would have won . you should watch the highlights of the dharamshala test to see how good indian batting was at dharamshala - vijay and rahul were astounding
pujara and kohli and agrawal batted te best along with pant - his avg was very imp .

stop living in denial . india is now the best touring side and competes at all venues
 
Lmao @ excuses
SL lost first test because it was in Brisbane not in Dublin or San Jose.
 
Being the best cricket team on planet earth....it was no surprise India won the test series in Australia. But one would be naive to think other Asian teams can beat Australia too in their home :))

As evident from this test, Australia mauled SL by an innings. Pak would face the same fate as well. BD wont even get invited bcoz they are not good enough.

So this notion that just bcoz India won, other Asian teams would win in Australia as well is hilarious. Rather than being bitter of India's success in cricket, try to appreciate it and learn from it how to improve your own team and make it capable like India.
 
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We mustn't forget that this SL side blanked Pak in UAE.

That puts India win in Aus in perspective
 
Saurav said:
We mustn't forget that this SL side blanked Pak in UAE.

That puts India win in Aus in perspective
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In summary, in tests
India > Australia > Sri Lanka > Pakistan

Even ICC test ranking shows this. But some fans here think that they know more about the streghths of cricket team than ICC. :srini
 
Saurav said:
We mustn't forget that this SL side blanked Pak in UAE.

That puts India win in Aus in perspective
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In summary, in tests
India > Australia > Sri Lanka > Pakistan

Even ICC test ranking shows this. But some fans here think that they know more about the streghths of cricket team than ICC. :srini
 
Well, no changing history here. It is on course of being repeated as SL is mauled by the Aussies (or the so called AUS "B" team as some ppers liked to call).....lol
 
latecut said:
In summary, in tests
India > Australia > Sri Lanka > Pakistan

Even ICC test ranking shows this. But some fans here think that they know more about the streghths of cricket team than ICC. :srini
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but they do, especially on this forum :P ..... what do you know
 
latecut said:
In summary, in tests
India > Australia > Sri Lanka > Pakistan

Even ICC test ranking shows this. But some fans here think that they know more about the streghths of cricket team than ICC. :srini
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No way. Fakhar Zaman scored that scintillating 100 in CT......
 
The title should be changed to more like "Sri Lanka in Australia - History repeating itself"
 
Shandarchowka said:
Just so you know, Australia fieded at Melbourne for 2 freaking days on a flattt pitch. Then Australian batting crumbled on a deteriorating surface in 2 sessions. Then India batted again without letting Australian bowlers rest, to their credit. Even though India also crumbled in the deteriorating pitch, the deed was done. Australian bowlers were down in fitness and speed for the rest of the series.

Due credit to Pujara for making it count but I just wanted to put things into perspective.
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And the fitness levels propped up against Lanka? Are you the fitness consultant for Team Australia to know all this...
 
Mamoon said:
No chance. Australia is still very good at home but were undone by the best team in the world. It will be a miracle if they don’t get whitewashed.
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Hasan123 said:
Their bowling probably isn’t good enough to win the series. Australian batters should score enough runs. Also Starc and Hazlewood will surely return to form.
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volcyz said:
Sri Lanka will be absolutely destroyed

Expect a complete whitewash
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The above three posts are turning out to be quite accurate.

The delusions of the following post are being exposed.

Shandarchowka said:
Australia is in doldrums now without their batting leaders and India took advantage of the situation. Obvious, isn't it? South Africa had a good team and fielded a strong bowling attack and also prepared some tough pitches. Even India lost the series last year, right?
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The game’s not over yet. Head and Burns are at ease on a flat pitch.

Sri Lankan batsmen will find it much easier this time around
 
BreadPakoda said:
The gameÂ’s not over yet. Head and Burns are at ease on a flat pitch.

Sri Lankan batsmen will find it much easier this time around
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Merely finding it much easier this time around will not make them the second Asian team to win a test series in Australia. They will need to take twenty wickets and then score more than what Australia has scored. It looks like a big defeat for them yet again.
 
No other team at the moment can dominate Aus in down under like India did. SA can challenge Aus but don't trust their batting which is devoid of Abd and a rusty out of touch Amla inspires no confidence. England is out of the as their toothless bowling in flat pitches will get hammered just like they are getting in WI. PAK test team is a joke atm which can't even win at home. Only realistic chance is NZ but they too blow hot and cold.
Don't see any other team winning down under for atleast next 5-6 years.
 
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