Mohsin Khan, Pakistan’s interim coach, has stressed the need for the Pakistan squad to focus on being mentally tough during their upcoming series against Sri Lanka in the UAE. He said while there was a lot of talent in the squad, the difference between winning and losing a match was often a team’s mental resolve.
“We have a talented bunch of players who have performed well in recent times, have steadily improved and become consistent,” Mohsin told Pakpassion.net on the eve of the team’s departure for the UAE. “The results have been good, the team has gelled and look a very useful unit. The training camp held over the last few days in Lahore has gone well. While working on the usual facets of cricket, I have also tried to emphasise the need for the boys to focus on the mental aspects of cricket.
”Mental toughness is sometimes the difference between winning and losing in a tight match. Look at the great Australian teams of the past few years; they had a never-say-die attitude and that meant they managed, time and again, to grab victory from the jaws of defeat. They were mentally so strong and this is something that I have been speaking in detail about to the Pakistan squad at the camp. You can be the best bowler, batsman or fielder, but if you are not mentally strong then you will rarely succeed at the top level of cricket.”
Khan mentioned young batsmen Azhar Ali and Asad Shafiq as examples of players who could improve by becoming stronger mentally. Both batsmen have showed promise but have yet to play a long Test innings. Azhar, in fact, already has nine half-centuries in just 13 Tests, but has not been able to convert any into a hundred.
(ESPN)
October 15, 2011 at 1:33 pm
Shaminda Eranga has been ruled out of Sri Lanka’s Test series against Pakistan in the UAE with a shoulder injury to his right arm, and will be replaced in the squad by uncapped seamer Kosala Kulasekara. Eranga had looked dangerous on Test debut, picking up four first-innings wickets against Australia in Colombo and his absence is a blow to Sri Lanka.
Kulasekara, a tall 26-year-old, has been a regular member of the Sri Lanka A squad over the summer, and impressed with a five-wicket haul in Leicester. He was also part of the Sri Lanka Board XI that played Australia during their recent tour, and took two wickets. He plays for Nondescripts Cricket Club in Sri Lanka’s domestic competitions and has 148 wickets in 72 first-class matches.
(ESPN)
October 14, 2011 at 10:01 am
The ICC Executive Board will meet in Dubai on Monday to discuss the format of the ICC event in 2013, domestic anti-corruption codes and the findings of the Independent Governance Review that was commissioned in June, among other things.
Currently, the Champions Trophy is scheduled for June 2013 in England, but there is a possibility that this event could be scrapped in favour of a Test Championship. The board will seek to finalise a decision on this. “Player and public interest in Test match cricket is at an all-time high,” Haroon Lorgat, the ICC chief executive officer, said ahead of the meet. “It would be fitting to stage a Test Championship play-off for the top four teams.”
Last week, Ronnie Flanagan, the chairman of the ICC’s anti-corruption and security unit, said there was a fear that domestic matches could be affected by corruption, given the increased scrutiny of international fixtures. In November 2010, the executive board had directed all Full Members to implement a domestic anti-corruption code by April 1, 2011.
At the meeting, the ICC will receive an update on the implementation of domestic anti-corruption processes. “The ICC and [Full] Members are well aware of the need to enhance education and preventative measures in this crucial area,” Lorgat said. “We know that we can never become complacent.”
(ESPN)
October 10, 2011 at 10:30 am
On a night of mediocre cricket, Mumbai Indians kept their surprise run going to win the biggest financial tournament in non-international cricket. James Franklin was the only man to keep his head in a suicidal MI innings, which helped them to 139, but the Royal Challengers Bangalore once again choked in a big final to lose despite a start of 38 for 0 in four overs. For the vanquished this was a painful repeat of their IPL final in Johannesburg where they froze while chasing 144. The victors, though, can claim they once again won the big moments: through Franklin’s sober innings, through Lasith Malinga’s two sixes amid a collapse, through an extra over given to Malinga that produced a wicket, and through their spinners’ seven overs for 30 runs and five wickets.
Be that as it may, for a majority of the match the teams seemed to be in a contest for ordinary cricket. There were three run-outs, there were unsavoury slogs resulting in exposed stumps, the winning side bowled 10 out of a total of 13 wides, and one of the keepers kept letting through byes. If Franklin’s smart 41 off 29 suggested a sober man in a Paris Hilton party, the Royal Challengers clearly outdid their opponents. Yes the pitch was slow and it took turn, but not enough to justify the bizarre and spectacular collapse, which featured minimal attempts to take singles with the asking rate around seven.
MI didn’t even know there was turn in for them. As Dilshan hit the ground running in the chase, they made a necessary departure from their usual ways of bowling Malinga for only two overs at the top. Dilshan’s 27 until then had come off shots either through the line or through the covers, and he would have known how desperately MI would have wanted a wicket off what then seemed like a last roll of dice. As it turned out, he swung across the line of a full first delivery, losing his off stump.
Kumar Dharmasena then made a potentially match-turning call, after having reprieved Harbhajan Singh when he was plumb before ruling him out when he wasn’t. This involved Harbhajan too, who fired in quick offbreaks in his first over. The last ball of the over, which had conceded just a wide, was tossed up, and Gayle got a big stride in. The offbreak didn’t turn as much as expected, hit him in front of off, and he was ruled out. The ball had a massive distance to travel, and the ball-tracking predicted it would have hit the outside of off stump. Conventional wisdom would have ruled it in the batsman’s favour, and even Gayle lost his cool when he saw the finger come up.
With an unreliable batting order, pampered by the true Bangalore surface and short boundaries, to follow, it was down to the only survivor of the Royal Challengers’ 2009 choke, Virat Kohli, to shepherd the rest through. However, he found himself batting with a trigger-happy Mayank Agarwal, who despite all his attempts at power hitting managed 14 off 19 before holing out to long-off. Even when the desperate Agarwal got out, the Royal Challengers needed a manageable 73 off 57.
Kohli felt the pinch too. Perhaps it was the presence of Malinga in the end, perhaps it was just the shock of having to work hard for the runs after Bangalore, but even he didn’t show the willingness to take the game to the deep end. In the next over he holed out to deep midwicket. Everybody knew it was game over there and then.
Mumbai Indians 139 (Franklin 41, Bhatkal 3-21, Vettori 2-30) beat Royal Challengers Bangalore 108 (Dilshan 27, Harbhajan 3-20, Chahal 2-9, Malinga 2-23) beat by 31 runs
October 9, 2011 at 11:36 pm
Bring the ramparts from Galle, the wall from China, the many castles from Europe. Bring all the defence buildings, tanks, experts. Place them in the Chinnaswamy Stadium, fast becoming the Wanderers of the northern hemisphere. Hide your 200-plus targets behind them. Chris Gayle, Tillakaratne Dilshan and Virat Kolhi will still chase them down at this venue. David Warner tonight became the first man to score back-to-back Twenty20 centuries, but even more incredibly the Royal Challengers Bangalore became the first team to chase down 200-plus scores in consecutive matches, that too with nine balls to spare.
Before the match, Gayle and Warner, soon to be opening partners for Sydney Thunder in the Big Bash League, were seen chatting with each other. When walking back, Warner took a look at Gayle’s bat. He held it sideways, and his jaw dropped looking at the thickness of the leading edge. They both had a laugh, and went their separate ways for the night. Gayle laughed the final laugh, though, as his 92 off 41 in company with Kohli’s unbeaten 84 off 49 outdid Warner’s extraordinary 123 off 68 and Daniel Smith’s 62 off 42. That leading edge was never hit on a night when clean hits tested the size of the stadium, and the half-hits managed to clear the short boundaries. Warner and Gayle dented the roof once each, but Gayle – symbolically – managed to send one out of the stadium. Records fell like crops during a hurricane, and the crowd – who must tire of this some day – matched the hitting with their incredible noise, appreciating both teams, only the home side more loudly.
The Royal Challengers Bangalore chose to chase again, packing their side with an extra batsman. Clearly all their eggs were in the basket woven together by Dilshan, Gayle and Kolhi. The basket proved to be strong enough. Incredible as it may sound, it was perhaps Dilshan who made the most crucial contribution even though he managed just four off nine. On a night that the other 34.3 overs went for 397 runs, Dilshan bowled his four overs for 10 runs at the top of the NSW innings. On a night that 26 sixes and 34 fours were hit, Dilshan went for none, as the Royal Challengers registered their least expensive Powerplay overs of this tournament, going for 47 runs. That Dilshan registered the Royal Challengers’ most economic four-over figures was perhaps the most crucial record on a night that must have sent statisticians into frenzy.
Royal Challengers Bangalore 204 for 4 (Gayle 92, Kolhi 84*, Cummins 4-45) beat New South Wales 203 for 2 (Warner 123*, D Smith 62) by six wickets
October 8, 2011 at 6:01 am
Ireland have included injury doubt Rory Best in their starting line-up as they name an unchanged team for the World Cup quarter-final against Wales.
Best injured his shoulder during the 36-6 Pool C win over Italy on Sunday.
The hooker’s AC joint is responding well to treatment, but Sean Cronin is on standby if Best does not recover.
Ireland coach Declan Kidney, who has to submit a team 48 hours before kick-off, said: “The decision could go to the end, we’ll make it when we have to.”
The Irish are already without first-choice hooker Jerry Flannery, who tore a calf muscle in training ahead of the match against Australia in mid-September.
Kidney added Ulster player Best was making “great progress” but said: “I wouldn’t want to tempt fate by rating Rory’s chances, but he’s not ruled out, which is always the first sign.
(BBC)
October 5, 2011 at 11:46 am
Umar Akmal has been dropped from the Pakistan Test squad for their series against Sri Lanka in the UAE starting later this month. Shoaib Malik, who was on Pakistan’s tour of Zimbabwe after gaining clearance from the PCB, finds a place in the 15-man squad.
Several of the first-choice bowlers who were rested for the Zimbabwe tour return. Umar Gul and Wahab Riaz come back and are joined by Aizaz Cheema and Junaid Khan in the fast-bowling department, with no place for Sohail Tanvir or Tanvir Ahmed. Left-arm spinner Abdur Rehman is also back in the squad while Imran Farhat has been retained as a third opener along with Mohammad Hafeez and Taufeeq Umar.
Umar Akmal has not scored a Test century since his hugely impressive debut in 2009. After a poor year in 2010, when he averaged just 24.33, he was left out of the XI for the two Tests in New Zealand. He returned to the side for the Tests in the West Indies, but after scoring just one Test half-century this year, and struggling to play long innings in ODIs as well, he has been left out of the Test squad.
(ESPN)
October 3, 2011 at 9:24 am
Sri Lanka’s new head coach, Geoff Marsh, has said that he is keen to extend his two-year contract with Sri Lanka Cricket and help them win another World Cup. The former Australia batsman and coach succeeds another Australian, Trevor Bayliss, who retired at the end of the 2011 World Cup in April after coaching the Sri Lanka team for four years.
“If Sri Lanka Cricket wants me to extend my contract till the 2014 World Cup its open from my end for discussions,” Marsh said on Thursday after taking over officially as head coach of Sri Lanka. “At the moment it’s a two-year contract and we haven’t talked about the finish yet. Hopefully the World Cup is something that I love to be through having won two (as a player and as a coach), but my immediate focus is preparing the team for the next test match which is against Pakistan next month.”
Marsh, 52 was a member of the Australian side that won the World Cup in 1987 and was coach of Australia when they won the World Cup again in 1999. He said that he will treat all three formats of the game – Test, One-Day International and Twenty20 cricket – the same.
“We got to basically sit down and plan for Test cricket, ODI cricket and T20 cricket we won’t favour one. Obviously the World Twenty20 is important but the most important game we play next is the first Test against Pakistan, that’s exactly what we will be targeting.” Sri Lanka take on Pakistan in the UAE next month. They will host the ICC World Twenty20 in September 2012.
“Being good friends with Tom Moody, he said that it was a fantastic place to come to. To be a part of Sri Lanka cricket was a great experience for him. That’s how it all started. It’s always been in the back of my mind that if I took on a coaching role it had to be out of Australia because it’s a conflict of interest to coach my kids (Shaun and Mitchell) in state cricket and for Australia. When you look around the world, Tom was always saying that this was a great place to come and coach and the people are fantastic. That’s how it came about.”
(ESPN)
September 30, 2011 at 6:20 am
Chennai Super Kings got their title defence back on track with a chase that covered the spectrum from blue to yellow and all the colours in between against Cape Cobras. Michael Hussey got the pursuit of 146 off to a positive start, but JP Duminy’s four wickets wrested the advantage back, and put the Cape Cobras in the pound seat. MS Dhoni and Dwayne Bravo‘s 43-run partnership helped Chennai recover but Vernon Philander dismissed Dhoni to give the Cobras another sniff. Then, Bravo made a mockery of Dale Steyn, scoring 17 runs off his last over, the 19th of the innings, to paint the Chidamabaram Stadium in the colour of the home team.
With 23 runs required off the last two overs, Chennai needed someone to launch them over the line, and Bravo took it upon himself to do so. First, he mowed a Steyn slower ball which turned into a full toss over midwicket, and carved the next delivery behind point for four, before playing a classy inside-out cover drive to ensure the Super Kings succeeded in a tricky chase on a slow pitch.
Chennai Super Kings 146 for 6 (Bravo 45*, Duminy 4-20) beat Cape Cobras 145 for 7 (Shah 45, Bravo 2-23) by four wickets
(ESPN)
September 29, 2011 at 6:41 am
Mitchell Marsh, Matthew Wade and Patrick Cummins are all in line to make their international debuts after being named in Australia’s squad to tour South Africa next month. Australia’s selectors have chosen separate 14-man groups for the Twenty20s and ODIs in South Africa, with Mitchell Johnson axed from the Twenty20 outfit and David Hussey cut from the one-day side.
Cricket Australia are still in the process of choosing their new selectors, so the squads were picked by an interim panel led by the outgoing chairman Andrew Hilditch, along with Greg Chappell, Jamie Cox and the stand-in coach Troy Cooley. The captains were also part of the panel – Michael Clarke for the ODI squad and Cameron White for the T20 group.
A serious shoulder injury that ruled the allrounder John Hastings out of the trip opened the door for Marsh, 19, who is set to follow his older brother Shaun and father Geoff in representing Australia after being picked in the Twenty20 squad. A promising allrounder who played for Australia A on the recent tour of Zimbabwe, Marsh had been earmarked for higher honours since captaining Australia to the Under-19 World Cup title in 2010.
(ESPN)
September 28, 2011 at 11:16 am
England slumped to their lowest-ever Twenty20 score on the way to a shock defeat against West Indies. Debutant spinner Garey Mathurin was the tourists’ bowling star with a stunning spell of 3-9 as England were all out for 88, chasing just 114 to win.
Having been put in to bat, West Indies struggled against England’s spinners on the way to 113-5 in their 20 overs.
Samit Patel impressed with 2-22, while Twenty20 debutant Scott Borthwick took 1-15 from his four overs.
The defeat meant that England ended their outstanding summer, after wins against Sri Lanka and India to become the number one Test team in the world, on a low as West Indies levelled the Twenty20 series at 1-1. The result was a major disappointment for stand-in captain Graeme Swann.
(BBC)
September 26, 2011 at 7:15 am
Geoff Marsh has said he is looking forward to the challenge of helping rebuild Sri Lanka’s side after the loss of several veterans over the past two years. Marsh, who has been named Sri Lanka’s new coach, said he found it “quite exciting” to see the young talent on display during the recent Test series against Australia, when he was in the country watching his son Shaun play for Australia.
During that series, Sri Lanka’s highest run scorer was the 24-year-old vice-captain Angelo Mathews, while fast bowler Shaminda Eranga made an impressive debut in the final Test at the SSC. Despite Sri Lanka losing the series 1-0 and slipping to fifth in the ICC Test rankings, Marsh said he was encouraged by what he saw after the loss in the series opener in Galle.
“I think Sri Lanka is in exactly the same position as Australian cricket is,” Marsh told ESPNcricinfo. “In the last couple of years it’s lost a lot of really good, experienced players, with Jayasuriya, Murali, they’ve lost Malinga to Test cricket, Vaas. In a country like Sri Lanka that’s a pretty big loss.
“But they’ve still got some world-class players in Jayawardene and Sangakkara in their side, and they’ve got some good young players, Mathews and co. They have two good spinners. I think they’re in exactly the same position as Australia, looking to rebuild a little bit from losing those players.
“My goal for the next 12 months is to bring them on and improve on their performance against Australia. That first Test match, the wicket wasn’t a good cricket wicket so it was hard to judge where they were at. But after that I thought they were pretty competitive. We just need to grow on that and consistently improve in all areas.”
Marsh arrives in Sri Lanka on September 27 to start his two-year contract, and it will be the beginning of a busy period for the side, as they prepare to head to the UAE to take on Pakistan, followed by a tour of South Africa. He said while it would be a challenge to get up to speed before the Pakistan series, he was happy to put his faith in his support staff.
“I’m going in with the same support team that they’ve had there. They’ve had things pretty well organised,” Marsh said. “What I bring is a lot of hard work, and working on the basic skills of the game, and good communication with the players and making sure they understand their roles. Basically I’ll be giving the player every opportunity I can to help him perform out in the middle.”
The job will be Marsh’s first international appointment since he resigned as Zimbabwe’s coach in 2004, a stint that followed his successful period as coach of Australia. He said international coaching had not been on his radar over the past few years, but the encouraging words of the former Sri Lanka coach Tom Moody, as well as Tony Greig, helped him make his decision.
(ESPN)
September 23, 2011 at 3:56 pm
Geoff Marsh, the former Australia batsman and coach, has been appointed coach of the Sri Lankan team, filling the vacancy created by Trevor Bayliss’ departure after the 2011 World Cup. Marsh’s two-year term begins on September 27 and he will not continue coaching the Pune Warriors IPL franchise.
“I told Pune Warriors and they were very good about it. Coaching an international team takes a lot of time and being able to fit both of them in just wouldn’t have happened,” Marsh, who was with Pune during IPL 2011, told ESPNcricinfo. “They’re very comfortable with it. I enjoyed my year at Pune Warriors. They’re a fantastic family. They could see that coaching an international team is an honour, so it was all good.”
Marsh had been in talks with Sri Lanka Cricket when he was in the country during Australia’s recent tour. His appointment ends a period of upheaval in Sri Lankan coaching following Bayliss’ exit. Stuart Law, who was Bayliss’ assistant, took over for the England tour before quitting to coach Bangladesh. Rumesh Ratnayake was in charge of the Sri Lanka side for the home series against Australia.
Marsh played 50 Tests and 119 ODIs for Australia, and was a member of the World Cup winning side in 1987. After retirement, he became a level 3 qualified coach and was at the helm of the Australian side from 1995 to 1999, when he became the first – and so far only – cricketer to win the World Cup both as player and coach. Subsequently, he took over as coach of Zimbabwe from 2000 to 2004. He was also a national selector for the Australian team.
Marsh continues the trend of Australians coaching Sri Lanka, after Dav Whatmore, John Dyson, Tom Moody, Bayliss and Law.
(ESPN)
September 23, 2011 at 2:30 pm
Former Australian Test batsman Geoff Marsh is the front-runner to win the vacant coaching appointment at Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka cricket is on the verge of announcing a successful applicant and Marsh is understood to have been highly impressive in his interview in Colombo early this month.
He could be appointed Sri Lanka coach before the end of September.
He confirmed an interest in the position and revealed that a successful coaching stint with Indian Premier League side Sahara Pune Warriors has reinvigorated his desire to coach.
“When you get the opportunity to coach one of the top eight cricketing nations in the world it is very appealing and the chance to work with such great players is very exciting,” Marsh said.
“Coaching in the IPL has definitely rekindled my interest in possibly coaching at the international level again.
“It’s such an exciting time in world cricket and I am very enthused at the prospect of being a part of it.”
Marsh, 52, coached Australia from 1997-2000 as well as Zimbabwe for three years from 2001-04.
He was interviewed while in Sri Lanka to witness the debut of his left-hand top-order specialist son Shaun Marsh in the second Test at Kandy early this month.
The 50-time Test player and Australian vice-captain to Allan Border just before the end of international career in 1992, has ruled out a return to any role within his home nation.
Marsh says anything he did in coaching or selecting state or national teams has a direct conflict of interest with the blossoming careers of his sons Shaun and Mitchell.
Shaun Marsh made a successful Test debut in Sri Lank this month with an historic century in his initial innings at the highest level.
Mitchell Marsh, still just 19, is an exciting young all-rounder who has already represented his country at youth levels and appears destined for a top international career.
“It’s a conflict of interest for me with my boys in the game in Australia and so if I am to coach, it is better off being elsewhere,” Marsh said.
(sportsnewsfirst.com.au.)
September 22, 2011 at 7:38 pm
The 2012 World Twenty20 will be held between September 18 and October 12, 2012 in Sri Lanka the ICC have confirmed. Colombo, Pallekele and Hambantota will be venues for the men’s tournament, while the women’s group games will be played in Galle.
The format will see four groups of three in a preliminary round. England, the defending champions, and India are in Group A and will be joined by one of the Associate or Affiliate teams that qualify. The other qualifying team will be in Group B with West Indies and Australia. Sri Lanka, South Africa and Zimbabwe make up Group C, and Pakistan, New Zealand and Bangladesh are in Group D.
The top two teams in each group will make it through the preliminary round, after which there will be a Super Eight stage, featuring two groups. The format is essentially the same as the last edition in 2010, though there are four fewer teams this time.
The tournament will include two teams qualifying from the ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier 2012, which will be staged in the United Arab Emirates from March 13-14 2012.
Hosts Sri Lanka will play the tournament’s opening fixture against Zimbabwe in Hambantota. England begin their defence against a qualifying team on September 21 and will then play India in Colombo on September 23.
The women’s tournament has Australia, India and England in one group with a qualifying team, and New Zealand, West Indies and Sri Lanka with the other qualifying team in the other. The men’s and women’s semi-finals and finals will be played on the same day, in Colombo. The semi-finals are on October 4 and October 5 with the finals on October 7.
Tickets for the tournament are planned to go on sale to the public from March 1, 2012 and will be available via website and box-office sales in Sri Lanka. The ICC’s chief executive Haroon Lorgat assured they would be reasonably priced.
(ESPN)
September 21, 2011 at 6:41 pm
Dinesh Chandimal has been recalled to Sri Lanka’s Test squad for the series against Pakistan in the UAE and is one of four wicketkeeper-batsmen in the 16-man party. Middle-order batsman Thilan Samaraweera, 34, and spinner Ajantha Mendis are the major omissions from the squad that lost 1-0 to Australia at home, while legspinner Seekkuge Prasanna was also left out.
“Thilan will not come into the reckoning in our long term plans,” Duleep Mendis, the chairman of selectors, said. “We intend giving youngsters an opportunity while the seniors are around. He might be considered on a short-term basis.”
Apart from Chandimal, who was part of the Test squad in England this summer but did not debut, fast bowler Nuwan Pradeep and another wicketkeeper-batsman Kaushal Silva were the two other uncapped players called into the side. Chandimal has played 12 ODIs and seven Twenty20s, though, and is presently representing Ruhuna in the Champions League Twenty20 in India. Neither Pradeep nor Silva has any international caps.
(ESPN)
September 21, 2011 at 4:29 pm
In his first series as Test captain, Michael Clarke has delivered Australia a 1-0 victory over Sri Lanka, moved them up to fourth in the ICC Test rankings, retained the Warne-Muralitharan Trophy and broken his own personal drought with his first Test century in 18 months. Not a bad way to start a new job. On the final day of the series, Clarke played a true captain’s innings to deny Sri Lanka any hope of winning the match, which ended in a draw that was as good as a victory for Australia.
Sri Lanka began the morning needing quick wickets to knock Australia over and set up a chase. By tea, Tillakaratne Dilshan’s men had added only two breakthroughs to the three wickets they had taken on the fourth afternoon, and they were left not only to rue their slow batting in a match they had to win, but also to wonder how long their attack will take to deliver them a Test win in the post-Muttiah Muralitharan era.
Rangana Herath toiled manfully to earn a career-best 7 for 157, but the harsh truth is that Sri Lanka haven’t won a Test since Murali last played for them in July 2010. And by losing a home series for just the third time in ten years, they have fallen to fifth on the ICC rankings list. Besides Herath, none of the bowlers looked threatening on the final day, not that their task was an easy one on a pitch offering nothing.
There was a glimmer of hope early, when Phillip Hughes (126) top-edged Herath to square leg, having added only four to his overnight total. But that brought Clarke and Michael Hussey together, and they proceeded to bat Sri Lanka out of the game in a 176-run partnership, an Australian fifth-wicket record against Sri Lanka, beating the 155 set by David Hookes and Allan Border in the first Test ever played between the two countries.
Sri Lanka 473 (Mathews 105*, Dilshan 83, Sangakkara 79, M Jayawardene 51, Siddle 4-91) and 7 for 0 drew with Australia 316 (Hussey 118, Marsh 81, Eranga 4-65, Welegedara 3-75) and 488 (Hughes 126, Clarke 112, Hussey 93, Herath 7-157)
(ESPN)
September 20, 2011 at 5:45 pm
