Great day in the history of Sri Lankan cricket, delightful
day for the fans and my Sri Lankan friends. First of all, let me congratulate
my friends. Nothing can be sweeter than the victory of your own team and when
they whitewash the number 1 (?) Test side in the world, the joy knows no bound.
I am sure they will party hard tonight. Angelo Mathews and his men have
achieved a feat which not even the Mahela and Siangakkaras could achieve.
Being an Australian fan, I am quite stunned. Great characters
like Allan Border, Steve Waugh, David Boon, Dean Jones and Craig McDermott made
me a fan of Australia during the 1988-89 World Series Cricket. I have seen them
lose matches, but I have hardly seen those big boys to digest defeats in such a
shambolic fashion.
Australia’s improved batting display in the first innings
made me optimistic. I thought, they will be able to pull off a win and avoid
the whitewash. But at the end of the day, it was yet another spineless batting
display from the Australians.
There were no snakes in the pitch. It was a decent one and a
bit of application and playing the ball according to the merit would have worked
well. But the Australian batting line-up imploded as soon as David Warner departed.
There were neither any signs of resistance from Steve Smith nor Shaun Marsh nor
Adam Voges. It was a display of poor temperament.
The Australian batting line-up succumbed to Rangana Herath.
Age is just a number for this guy.
Thank You
Faisal Caesar
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