Genius-Boy
School Cricketer
As rain has stopped the game for the moment, here is the SCORE UPDATE from Barbados:
Sri Lanka 149/3
Jayawardene 17(16)*
Silva 1(6)*
Current partnership: 4 runs
Last wicket: S. Jayasuriya 63(67)
Sri Lanka RR: 6,00
Required RR: 10,10
Sri Lanka requires 133 runs with 7 wickets and 13,1 overs remaining.
The covers are coming off (we think), though it's looking increasingly gloomy and dark out there. Ah, there's a groundsman with a very fine mop of dreadlocks (collective term for dreadlocks, anyone?) sweeping the muddy, rain-soaked pieces of loose pitch from the wicket...and mopping the puddles, too. So it does look reasonably promising and we'll keep you updated.
At the end of this over, Sri Lanka's required Duckworth Lewis total would have been 175. And they're some way short of that, meaning Australia would win. Sri Lanka must be desperate, absolutely desperate to get back on the pitch. There is something infinitely wrong in leaving Duckworth Lewis to decide a final.
Another discussion between the umpires, I'm afraid, and the crowd are booing. The skies are clearing up; the rain relenting but off they go. It's a fair decision, to be honest, in spite of the slight improvement in the weather. It does look better but the ground is slippery and wet - it's been raining pretty heavily, after all - but that looks like our lot for the day.
Sri Lanka 149/3
Jayawardene 17(16)*
Silva 1(6)*
Current partnership: 4 runs
Last wicket: S. Jayasuriya 63(67)
Sri Lanka RR: 6,00
Required RR: 10,10
Sri Lanka requires 133 runs with 7 wickets and 13,1 overs remaining.
The covers are coming off (we think), though it's looking increasingly gloomy and dark out there. Ah, there's a groundsman with a very fine mop of dreadlocks (collective term for dreadlocks, anyone?) sweeping the muddy, rain-soaked pieces of loose pitch from the wicket...and mopping the puddles, too. So it does look reasonably promising and we'll keep you updated.
At the end of this over, Sri Lanka's required Duckworth Lewis total would have been 175. And they're some way short of that, meaning Australia would win. Sri Lanka must be desperate, absolutely desperate to get back on the pitch. There is something infinitely wrong in leaving Duckworth Lewis to decide a final.
Another discussion between the umpires, I'm afraid, and the crowd are booing. The skies are clearing up; the rain relenting but off they go. It's a fair decision, to be honest, in spite of the slight improvement in the weather. It does look better but the ground is slippery and wet - it's been raining pretty heavily, after all - but that looks like our lot for the day.
What if rained all night and day tomorrow?
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