{"id":7302,"date":"2019-01-30T11:00:13","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T01:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.neds.com.au\/blog\/?p=7302"},"modified":"2019-02-04T13:48:45","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T03:48:45","slug":"australia-vs-sri-lanka-second-test-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.neds.com.au\/blog\/2019\/01\/australia-vs-sri-lanka-second-test-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia vs Sri Lanka &#8211; Second Test Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Australia<\/strong> will attempt to secure a confidence-boosting series whitewash when they meet <strong>Sri Lanka<\/strong> in the second test at Canberra\u2019s <strong>Manuka Oval<\/strong> from Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Following a disappointing 3-1 loss to the world\u2019s number 1 ranked test side India, Justin Langer\u2019s men completed a three-day, outright dismantlement of Sri Lanka at the Gabba last week and will be full of confidence heading into the second and final test of the summer.<\/p>\n<p>Understandably, Australia have opened as clear $1.16 favourites to defeat Sri Lanka ($8.50) in the second test.<\/p>\n<h6><strong>Australia<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p>It was a far more convincing display from Australia in Brisbane, but Sri Lanka are a completely different class of opposition to their subcontinent counterparts at current and there is still plenty of improvements to be made by Tim Paine and co.<\/p>\n<p>Despite rolling the Sri Lankans cheaply in both innings, no Australian was able to make a century and batting remains the major concern ahead of a big year of test cricket including an Ashes tour of England.<\/p>\n<p>Travis Head has probably been Australia\u2019s most consistent performer with the bat all summer and the South Australian went close to notching his maiden test ton at the Gabba; crafting a beautiful 84 before he was dismissed lbw.<\/p>\n<p>Jhye Richardson was outstanding in his debut, taking five wickets cross the two innings, but it was Pat Cummins who again starred \u2013 taking ten wickets in the match.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Suggested Bets<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Travis Head to Top Score in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> Innings ($4.50)<br \/>Pat Cummins to take the most wickets in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> Innings ($3.25)<\/strong><\/p>\n<h6><strong>Sri Lanka<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p>Sri Lanka are also well and truly amidst a rebuild in the test arena and it has been lean pickings for the island nation recently.<\/p>\n<p>Having dropped all three tests against England in November, they did manage to draw the first of two tests in New Zealand in December but were delivered a 423-run hiding by the Blackcaps before arriving in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>There were few shining lights for Sri Lanka in Brisbane, but Niroshan Dickwella did provide some good resistance in the middle order \u2013 producing a credible 64 in the first innings and 24 in the second. Suranga Lakmal was the main destroyer with the ball, taking 5\/75 off 27 overs.<\/p>\n<p>Captain Dinesh Chandimal was all but unsighted in Brisbane but is an outstanding first drop at his best and will be eager to lead from the front in Canberra.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Suggested Bets<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dinesh Chandimal to Top Score in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> Innings ($6)<br \/>Suranga Lakmal to take the most wickets in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> Innings ($3)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia will attempt to secure a confidence-boosting series whitewash when they meet Sri Lanka in the second test at Canberra\u2019s Manuka Oval from Friday. Following a disappointing 3-1 loss to the world\u2019s number 1 ranked test side India, Justin Langer\u2019s men completed a three-day, outright dismantlement of Sri Lanka at the Gabba last week and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":889,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,344],"tags":[135,85,73,22,34,35,1646,168,2542,72],"hub_post_cat":[],"class_list":["post-7302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","category-sports","tag-australia","tag-betting","tag-betting-preview","tag-cricket","tag-cricket-betting","tag-cricket-odds","tag-cricket-tips","tag-odds","tag-sri-lanka","tag-tips"],"acf":{"md_tip_date":null,"md_tip_date_end":null,"md_market_url":"","tip_date":"30\/01\/2019","event_country":"Australia"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.neds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7302"},{"taxonomy":"hub_post_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hub_post_cat?post=7302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}