http://www.senore.com/Cricket/MJ-Clarke-c1978 asks team to buckle up for the remaining ODIs – Cricket News Update
Following the team’s defeat at the recent One Day International (ODI) match at Hambantota, on August 16, 2011, the Australian skipper Michael Clarke asked his squad to come out with a better performance on the remaining two fixtures of the series against
the Sri Lankan hosts.
The match came to its eventual closure after the Lankan hosts went on to mark their opening win on the proceeding ODI series against the Australian visitors. For now Australia retains a 2-1 lead, a mark which the tourists achieved after securing two successive
wins on the opening ODI games.
However, for the third but lost bout, Clarke blamed the team’s top batting order that failed to retain stumps, making it easy for Lankan pacers http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ranaweera-Mudiyanselage-Shaminda-Eranga-c83939 to carry out the damage forcing the Australian batting line-up to fall 78 runs
off the chase.
Opening batters, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ricardo-Gouveia-c84824 Pointing on 22.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/MEK-Hussey-c1942 remained to be the highest scorer for the team, earning a notable 63, followed by skipper Clarke with 46.
“We have some work to do over the next few days because playing against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758, especially in their home conditions, you have to be at your best to beat them. We didn't perform as well as we would like at the start of the innings with the ball. We then
came back really well with the ball but our batting let us down. We have no excuses, we didn't perform as well as we'd like and we know that", revealed the modest http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Clarke-c51120.
The skipper also went on stating that if the team http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746 may be able to mark another couple wins on the remaining series.
In contrast, however, the Sri Lankan batting order came out with some exceptional batting display that aided the side in posting a competitive chase for the visitors, worth 286.
Opening batsman http://www.senore.com/Cricket/KC-Sangakkara-c1779 just a single short of a half ton.
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