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The report by Brydon Coverdale
September 19, 2011
Australia 316 and 209 for 3 (Hughes 122 *, Herath 3-54) lead Sri Lanka 473 (105 * Mathews, Dilshan 83, Sangakkara 79, Jayawardene 51 M, Siddle 4-91) by 52 runs
Phillip Hughes painted the first century of evidence for two and a half years in Australia to give every opportunity to play a series of SSC win a draw. But the end of the day, which began in Sri Lanka indexing Angelo Mathews devoured valuable time to get his country's Test hundred, Rangana Herath was troubled Australian higher order is enough to give Sri Lanka hope of victory.
Sri Lanka has to win the game in the series, and its fate depends on whether you can trade orders via Australia early last day. At stumps on the fourth afternoon, Australia had 52 passes, with seven wickets in hand, and Hughes still had a good time together at the crease on the part of captain Michael Clarke 122, 8.
If time did not win in Sri Lanka, repent of their low in March, the fourth morning, when they added 45 runs to their overnight total, but it took more than an hour and a half to do it. Tea, Australia had all but knocked out the 157-run first inning deficit, and are not in a hurry during the last session, preferably with the bat so much time away from the game as much as possible.
Not that Hughes had been slow. He brought his century with its 141st Comes with a push off the side for two, and its celebration was significantly moderate: there was a little fist pump and raise the bat, but no helmet-kissing , who led the way for Australia in recent years. He knew that the voters had shown great faith in him dropping Simon Katich.
Hughes had not passed fifty in any of his last ten rounds of testing, and not from his twin hundreds in Durban in March 2009 it had reached three figures for his country. He took 22 balls to pass through the nineties, which included a nervous moment on 99 when he survived an audit IPN After being in a tangle trying to dab behind the gap, the ball struck his pad flap before the bat, but outside line.
Previously, Hughes was in fine form and his car through the cover when the sailors excessive blade was particularly strong. He also cleared the midwicket boundary with a slog Herath and brought up his fifty with another chore of scanning, this time from Tillakaratne Dilshan, his 67th delivery. More importantly, he had the support throughout.
His partnership with Shane Watson, Shaun Marsh and Ricky Ponting were all something worth sixty. Herath tried removing all three batsmen, Ponting 28 in the late dismissal of key stroke when the ball turned sharply and kissed his hand to the batter on the way through Mahel Jayawardene at slip.
Herath had served wicket of Watson (21) with a delivery that went straight on and despite a huge step forward, Watson was IPN revision after being given not by the field referee. This tutorial worked for Sri Lanka, another would have worked against them, if Marsh had thought to ask for one when he was out for the 18th
It was a strange dismissal, as Marsh was given caught at bat-pad, but replays showed the delivery Herath had turned, so it missed the bat and gloves with a wide margin. But perhaps forget DRS was available, or maybe just convinced that he had made contact, Marsh failed to request a review, which would have saved.
But it was just the most amazing games of today. The real mystery is why Sri Lanka hit so slowly during the morning, when what they really needed was quick runs to give themselves enough time to bowl Australia out and finish a chase, if necessary. Instead, the focus seems to be one of Mathews to his hundred, no matter how long it took.
He was there, and remained unbeaten at 105 when he lost three of their last four partners on the same route to three digits. Australia was happy to spend precious minutes to put on the back of the field, Mathews does not want to know more than individuals in the early stages to reveal No.11 Suranga Lakmal, and the path has had a long and drawn out.
Finally, he got his 256th Comes with a drive through cover off Peter Siddle four, and it was a relief to a man who had been twice in the nineties. The final wicket fell when Lakmal was overthrown by Mitchell Johnson, 13 years after the breakthrough Siddle picked up earlier.
Siddle began the day 12-ERANGE Shaminder bowling with a ball that caught the edge and crashed fullish within the leg stump, and followed by the capture Herath low birth weight of 3. Herath reviewed the decision, but to no avail, and later off Chanaka Welegedara was executed in a great confusion Mathews.
Welegedara is inserted in the center and left, but ended up at the end of the pitcher next to his friend Mathews, and the ball was passed to Brad Haddin removed the bars at the other end. And 'typical morning when Sri Lanka is not just on the ball.
But in the end, strike Herath, at least had a chance to win. If fifth start in the morning than they did in the quarter, which hopefully will soon disappear.
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