The Australian cricketers produce another nightmare bottlenecks Wednesday, throw a seemingly impregnable position against Sri Lanka to extend their horror six consecutive defeats.
After this last brainstorm - a surprising implosion, even by recent standards - each English cricket fan must be fancying men Andrew Strauss to hang on the ashes urn this winter.
This is not so much the thin margin of victory of one-window of Sri Lanka, which was sealed when Muttiah Muralitharan titillé a limit to the fine leg, but the fact that the Australia allowed visitors to retrieve 107 for eight to overhaul their target of 240.
That is one of the unlikeliest escapes in the history of one-day internationals.Le type exhaust that Australia used to run themselves, in the days when they still believed in their divine law to govern the world of cricket.
Recent events have reversed polarity to the point where the modern Australian cannot work out originates from the next victory.They thought they had Mahendra Singh Dhoni and sound on the Indian side, beaten in Mohali a month ago, only for the VVS Laxman perform a miraculous feat, addition of 81 runs with no. 10 Harbhajan Singh as House Indian infiltrated by a one-stop shop.
Dynamics in Melbourne on Wednesdy was similar with Angelo Mathews in the role of Laxman and no. 10 Lasith Malinga Sri Lanka marking its inaugural day international half-century.The two men added 132 - stand ninth-window in any one day international cricket - before Malinga has exhausted for the winner.
Ricky Ponting is absent in the match, after having travelled for the funeral of her grandmother when his absence Australia, Michael Clarke was supported, but it failed to find the change of bowling or place that could end losing run his team.
It is now four months since the Australia won a cricket match.Since then, they have lost tests for Pakistan and India (twice) and three games limited-overs to start.For the last time that they have lost six matches in a row, you return to the winter 1996-97, where they had a rock against Courtney Walsh West Indian and Pakistani Wasim Akram patch.
"I am disappointed because we so close again and we could not finish the game," Clarke said, "that is a question that we have had for some time now in all three forms of the jeu.Mathews is a very good player, but Malinga is a no. 10"
"If we are sufficiently good to execute our plans and obtain the high order out page, I see no reason why we can't do the tailenders.Mais is not the first time, he arrived, and it is something that we need to look at."
The an encouragement for the Australia exhibit was a fine debut by Xavier Doherty, a 27 year old who returned figures of four 46.Avec left arm spinner Nathan Hauritz struggling to justify its presence on the team test, Doherty has a chance outside to play in the cendres.surtout than most destructive England batsman Kevin Pietersen has terrible against slow left-armers record.
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