CB Series - Australia Vs Sri Lanka 9th ODI at Melbourne Review plus Live Spocast Streaming

by cricker | February 21, 2008 at 12:55 pm
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The Series is now getting to final part and is getting more exciting. The series is so exciting that evry match changes the situation. In one match it looks like one team is at top but in other that team gets more pressure . Same is happening here ,Sri Lanka which on last match looks holding a advantage over India just now standing on edge of getting out of cup. Its not so serious just now for Sri Lanka but any lose will make it fatal for them in this Series. Jayawardner knows win in 2 matches for sure out of 3 matches and win this match will be a boost for them. Australia on other hand is team which is the most safe one in the Series. Friday victory will mean increasing their confidence more.Thats why Australian team decided to keep Brett Lee off .

CB Series : 9th ODI Match Sri Lanka vs Australia @ Melbourne Live Sopcast Streaming

 

Jayawardne knows the importance of the situation and thinks absence of Brett Lee wont be changing Australian team. He said that Australia never takes any game light whether they in safe zone they take all game as new challenge and without Brett Lee they are still tough side to be defeated.

Australia biggest problem just now is their batting .Most concern is on Ricky who in this series  scored 53 runs at 10.60 and Rikcy knows this well . For Solving this problem Ricky talked to his team on Thursday and ask the team to put all their efforts on batting."It's pretty hard to go and talk to the rest of the guys and tell them
to get their head down when I can't get it myself," he said. "We
haven't played anywhere near our best cricket just yet, as a team.

He is happy to say that his bowlers are in superb form who helped Australian team in all situation. "Winning after scoring low score just tells that our bowlers in striking form" he said that. Sri Lanka is facing same type of problem as Australia is facing. Sri Lanka top order is not being able to give them a good start which they need to captalize. Jayawardne said they had not decided on their final line-up but they would need to
consider whether to keep Tillakaratne Dilshan at the top who failed in last two matches after superb 62 against India in Canberra. 

Jayawardne knows well the win is their only goal. He said that Sri Lankan batsmen have to improve and if they kick they might win this important game. We can hope the Friday match will be same exciting nd electrifying as other matches of Series gone so far.

Teams:

Australia (likely) 1 Adam Gilchrist (wk), 2 Matthew Hayden, 3
Ricky Ponting (capt), 4 Michael Clarke, 5 Andrew Symonds, 6 Michael
Hussey, 7 James Hopes, 8 Brad Hogg, 9 Mitchell Johnson, 10 Nathan
Bracken, 11 Stuart Clark.

Sri Lanka (likely) 1 Sanath Jayasuriya, 2 Tillakaratne Dilshan,
3 Kumar Sangakkara (wk), 4 Mahela Jayawardene (capt), 5 Chamara Silva,
6 Chamara Kapugedera, 7 Farveez Maharoof, 8 Chaminda Vaas, 9 Ishara
Amerasinghe, 10 Lasith Malinga, 11 Muttiah Muralitharan.

 

CB Series : 9th ODI Match Sri Lanka vs Australia @ Melbourne Live Sopcast Streaming

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Rachel Nixon
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at 17:11 on February 21st, 2008

cricker, I like this story. It's good stuff.

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