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Donny 
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Hamstrung Steve O'Keefe is out of the series.
Replacement ? Bushranger Jon Holland. He took 8 wickets in Victoria's Sheffield Shield win, against Sth. Australia.
Ashton Agar was the obvious choice but is injured. Some reckon Adam Zampa was the go but I think the selectors are 'managing' this very promising leggy.
Holland's place in the Oz A team, to play SA A in a 4 dayer, has gone to Glenn Maxwell.
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Lazza
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| Pies4shaw wrote: | | Play on day 4 will start one hour later than scheduled. That should help the movement with the new ball (as should the wet outfield). |
Might also help the drawn result aspect.
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| Play should start in 2 minutes but it is getting dark and light rain is falling. |
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| The covers are off, again. |
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Donny
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Starc to begin.
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| Play is underway. Mendis brings up the 200 lead with a four. We have a new ball, so the reviews are reinstated. |
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Donny
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... and gets Mendis.
7/290.
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Donny
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Starc has 3/48. Mendis scored 176.
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Lazza
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Riveting stuff!
SL will be extremely lucky to get a lead beyond 260.
I reckon that is a gettable score for the Aussies.
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Pies4shaw
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^^^ It's an interesting question, Lazza. Perhaps the pitch is playing a little better, now - on the other hand, Australia have had no Test-standard leg spinner since O'Keefe got hurt yesterday. The unknown is whether Mendis has just played a masterful innings head and shoulders better than everybody else in the Test (which I suspect is the position) or whether the pitch has become tame enough for a couple of Australians to get going properly, this time.
Looks like we'll have an early lunch, so - on previous days' weather patterns - there's probably between 70 and 90 overs left in this test. |
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Pies4shaw
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| First ball after the resumption. Hazlewood breaks through. 8/314. |
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Starc bowls Sandakan (hit him in he midriff and the ball bounces onto the stumps). 9/323. The lead is 237. Starc has 4/70.
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| Very strange decision to bring Lyon into the attack - the fast men had a ball 9 overs old and had just taken a wicket each in their last pair of overs. Sri Lanka hits out and gets 11 valuable runs from Lyon. |
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Donny
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Tail wagging. 20 runs in 11 balls.
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| And Hazlewood is back, leading almost inexorably to the conclusion that Smith knows bringing Lyon on was a mistake. |
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