From: ecrjbruce@economics.adelaide.edu.au
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Aust v. SL - Scorecard Day Four.
Date: 2 Sep 92 02:40:31 GMT
Organization: Economics, University of Adelaide

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Here is the scorecard at the end of the fourth day of the Second Test between
Australia and Sri Lanka at the Khettarama Stadium, Colombo.

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AUSTRALIA. First innings.  247.

SRI LANKA. First innings.  9/258 declared.

AUSTRALIA. Second innings.

M. Taylor      lbw.                 b. Hathurasinghe              26
T. Moody                            b. Muralidharan               54
D. Boon        c. Mahanamaa         b. Anurasiri                  15
D. Jones                            Not Out                       48
M. Waugh       lbw.                 b. Muralidharan                0
A. Border      lbw.                 b. Anurasiri                  28
G. Matthews                         Not Out                       23

Extras (2b, 7lb, 3nb)                                             12
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Total (for five wickets)                                         206

Fall: 61, 102, 104, 104, 149

SRI LANKA. Bowling.
                      O.    M.    R.    W.
Ramanayake            8     0    35     0
Liyanage             10     1    34     0
Hathurasinghe        12     4    12     1
Anurasiri            34     9    48     2
Muralidharan         23     5    68     2

Batting time: 324 min.  Overs: 87

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Jones has been the lucky player of the match - after being missed twice in the
first innings before he was out, it has happened again in the second innings.
Before he had scored, he charged down the wicket to the spin of Anurasiri,
missed the ball, was out of his crease by a metre, but the stumping was missed.
Then, late in the day, paceman Champaka Ramanayake found the edge of Jones' bat
with the second new ball but Mahanama dropped a simple knee high catch at
second slip.

Sri Lanka declared at it's overnight total of 9/258. The only man to fall in
the morning session was Taylor after a 61 run opening stand.
A suberb session of spin bowling then followed from unheralded spin pair
Anurasiri and Muralidharan, to have the Australians struggling at tea. 

The two who have played just eleven tests between them, combined to take 3/2 in
nine deliveries (3 wickets for two runs), as Australia sought to build a
worthwhile lead. Anurasiri had Boon caught at slip, and then Muralidharan, in
his first test, disposed of Moody and Waugh in consecutive deliveries.

Australia goes into the fifth and final day with a lead of 195. I predict a
hit out for quick runs for about an hour or so in the morning session to enable
the Aussies to set the Sri Lankans a target of around 250 to win.
Greg Matthews will play a vital role on a wicket that is giving the spin
bowlers assistance.

Daniel.