Sri Lanka vs. Australia
12 February 2006, the wee hours
I haven’t watched a cricket game in a while. Today I get to watch Australia square off against Sri Lanka. Tillakaratne Dilshan is a gangster. Australia’s Gilchrist is out thanks to a pretty good catch by the young Dilshan—that was on the second ball of the game! He also happened to run 4 of Australia’s batsmen out a few days ago. Here is hoping Sri Lanka can keep the pressure on and win this.
Update: So, in the span of 3 overs Sri Lanka has managed to get 3 wickets.
Update: 35 overs in, and Ponting and Symonds have shut the Sri Lankan team up. Some pretty brilliant cricket on their parts. It’s not looking good for Sri Lanka; Australia looks like they’ll easily post a 300+ score.
Update: Australia’s innings are over. They posted a score of 368, which is pretty damn high. It is pretty unlikely Sri Lanka can come close to matching that.
Update: I went to bed just before the game ended, when Muralitharan was still up to bat. To match Australia’s score, Sri Lanka would need to have batted a pretty solid game—which they didn’t. Too many wickets early on didn’t help their cause. 368 is an astronomical score; It would have been a very hard game to win.
This is a bit shock after the outstanding effort in Adelaide. It was one of the best games I have ever seen.
by Sunny on February 12 2006, 5:52 am #
They got ripped, still got the deciding game to go though. I hate the Australian Team, bunch of bastards..
by Ahilan on February 12 2006, 11:16 am #
I wish I had seen the Adelaide game. I won’t be able to watch the game on Tuesday either, since, well it’s on Tuesday and runs through the night here. What a suck. (One day cricket matches for about 7 hours or so, which is short for a Cricket game.)
by ramanan on February 12 2006, 2:45 pm #
...bunch of bastards…
Agreed. They are usually at their whining best after a loss, as was the case in this particular match.
Should be a good match on Tuesday. Toss will be crucial.
by Sunny on February 12 2006, 9:40 pm #