Geelong to host Australia-Sri Lanka T20 next year

Manuka Oval will play host to two matches, on Friday, November 18 and Sunday, November 20.

While he also posted a half-century in his only first-class appearance.

Head became South Australia’s youngest captain at the age of 21. In Galle and prior to that in Pallekele, they easily chickened out.

Rod Marsh (left) believes Travis Head will be a key player for Australia in future. “What has been frustrating is I haven’t been able to capitalise on my starts here”. But I am learning to bowl better in the subcontinent. I’ve got a lot of confidence.

“I wouldn’t want to get anyone’s hopes up too high, but clearly as we fixture matches here and those matches are well supported, it obviously begins to build a case for expansion matches down the track”.

“That’s been the disappointing thing as a batting unit so we’ll be looking forward to rectifying that in the next Test”. When faced with a near impossible fourth-innings chase Australia’s batsmen tried numerous more aggressive approaches based on observation of Sri Lanka’s batsmen.

The most telling blows coming from Marsh’s older brother, Shaun, who several times thumped the spinners over the long-on boundary and nearly through the huge glass windows of the stadium’s media centre as he made his case for inclusion in the final dead-rubber Test.

Tickets to the Prime Minister’s XI v Sri Lanka T20 match will also go on sale to the “Australian cricket family” from Tuesday, August 30 and to the general public from Friday, September 2. Probably the one thing I’ve noticed [about Sri Lanka’s batsmen] is that they’re extremely positive from ball one. When he goes big, he gets big scores as we’ve seen. That’s why he has come in a bit early.

“And try and get the field out so there’s a few more gaps to get off strike”.

“That was the plan, I thought we did it reasonably well, it was just the fact that we didn’t do it for long enough”.

Head will travel to Colombo immediately and join up with the Test team ahead of Saturday’s final game of a series Australia have already lost, but the batsman will not play a part. England would go to the top by winning the final Test against Pakistan, while wins in the final two Tests over West Indies would take India there.

Albeit by the slimmest of margins.

Regional venues were used for some neutral games during the 1992 World Cup, while Launceston, Devonport and Townsville have also hosted official worldwide matches that did not involve Australia. It’s what we strive for.

“In the Test arena you don’t play for a premiership, you play to be number one in the world”.

“Any team that gets knocked off the perch as the No.1 Test team in the world, it would certainly hurt everyone”, Marsh said on Monday.