Graham Ford not happy with his team’s preparation for http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746 – Cricket News Update
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/DPMD-Jayawardene-c1397 and company will
have to raise their game in the upcoming series versus Australia.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758’s tour of Australia, which includes three Tests, five One Day Internationals and two T20s, commences from December 14, at Hobart. Taking into account the nature of the pitches in Australia, the visitors’ inexperienced batsmen
are likely to struggle against Michael Clarke’s men.
The Lankan http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Lions-c808 defeated the Kiwis in the first Test at Galle, looking a far superior unit in every department of the game. However, the tourists bounced back at Colombo to square the series 1-1.
According to Ford, it is a massive setback for Sri Lanka, who were keen to register a comprehensive series win against New Zealand to boost their morale for a challenging battle down under.
“I was hoping that we would have a very good Test series against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/New-Zealand-c754 which would be a fantastic way of preparing for the Australia series particularly as they have a useful seam outfit,” Ford said.
Since the retirement of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SL-Malinga-c2540 from Test cricket, Sri Lanka’s bowling attack has struggled to deliver the goods against world-class batting line-ups. The tour of Australia is going to
be a huge test of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/HMRKB-Herath-c1559 as well, who did a superb job against the Kiwis.
The coach is disappointed with the inconsistent performance of his batsmen as well and feels that doing well in the series leading up to the tour of Australia was crucial but the top-order struggled against the likes of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/TG-Southee-c2659
and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Trent-Boult-c2708.
“If we could pass the test against this seam bowling we would know we were in quite a good position to take on Australia. Unfortunately we didn't really pass the test with flying colours although there were quite a few batsmen that
showed some decent form,” he added.
Australia are currently playing the last Test of their series against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/South-Africa-c757 at Perth.
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