ODI Series - 3rd Final: Australia v Sri Lanka, Adelaide

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Commonwealth Bank Series
Australia - India - Sri Lanka

3rd Final: March 8, Adelaide Oval
Start time: 1350 CST, 0950 IST, 0320 GMT

CBS Table - Final Standings: 04/03/12


Australia:
1 Matthew Wade†, 2 David Warner, 3 Shane Watson*, 4 Michael Hussey, 5 David Hussey, 6 Peter Forrest
7 Daniel Christian, 8 Brett Lee, 9 Clint McKay, 10 Xavier Doherty, 11 Nathan Lyon.

Sri Lanka:
1 Mahela Jayawardene*, 2 Tillakaratne Dilshan, 3 Kumar Sangakkara†, 4 Dinesh Chandimal, 5 Lahiru Thirimanne, 6 Upul Tharanga,
7 Chamara Kapugedera, 8 Farveez Maharoof, 9 Nuwan Kulasekara, 10 Lasith Malinga, 11 Rangana Herath.

LB, it sounds like the tide is turning towards OZ?

That was a much needed wicket. Watson gets Tharanga to edge one. Out for 71.

204/8... 28 runs off 24 balls required now.

Linebreaker wrote:That was a much needed wicket. Watson gets Tharanga to edge one. Out for 71.

204/8... 28 runs off 24 balls required now.

Cheers for the updates Breaker, I can't get into Cricinfo this morning

No probs mate.

McKay clean bowls Herath. 205/9 still 27 runs needed off 21 balls.

Huge chunk of wood breaks off Maharoof's bat. No run.

23 off 14 balls now.

Single off the first ball of the penultimate over. 21 off 11.

4! to Malinga... 17 runs off 9 balls

swings and misses the next.

Yorker from Mckay 5/28. Malinga clean bowled.

SL all out for 215 and Australia wins by 16 runs.

Phew, I thought 231 was a low score but they put pressure on SL and there were early wickets which helped.

Apparently it's the first time a team has won the first match in a Finals Series in Oz, lost the 2nd, then come back to win the 3rd.

Congrats to australia, that ends a succesful summer season, who are they playing next mr wallaby?

They leave for the Caribbean in 3 days I think. Not sure whether Clarke will be going.

Congrats on the win breaker

There will be some easy ranking points up for grabs.

OZ back to no. 1 ?

I bet the English is getting nervous.

Always No.1 in ODIs, BB.

They were on 130 points and India at one stage were on around 119-121, I think. SL were below them.

Maybe lost a few points (by losing 4 times? to SL) but they're still country town streets ahead of the bunch as usual.

They flew out today for the Caribbean. Quite a tiring thought after all the non-stop cricket that's been on.

lol linebreaker im suprised you havent put up a thread, for the OZ tour to the windies..

too busy with work mate and time differences make it impossible to watch every ball.

It starts at 3am here I see... I'll probably put up a thread later this arvo.

Yes matches in West Indies are the worst for Australian time zones ... difficult to get at from either end , as it were : too late or too early

Test matches are worth sleep deprivation but I draw the line at ordinary ODIs...

I heard about Brad Haddin returning home for personal reasons. I honestly hope all is OK. Maybe it was worded like that in the news release... but he has been officially told he won't be playing for Oz in any forms again. Anyway, I wish him all the best.

No way I'll be up at 3am... maybe 7ish to see what's happening.

I was sorry to hear about Haddin. Hope it isn't anything too bad - my immediate thought was it was probably a family health issue as the simplest explanation but I suppose we'll find out the broad details soon enough. Wish him well.