The Australian cricket team have continued their horror run just 20 days out from the start of the Ashes. Last night the Australians lost the One Day International series against Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka was full of confidence after winning the first match at the MCG in stunning fashion. The tourists won the toss and elected to bat first. In a rain effected innings Sri Lanka reached 240 from 38 overs using the Duckworth-Lewis rule.
Australia now needed a strong batting performance but it wasn't to be. Brad Haddin was bowled for 1 while the skipper Ricky Pointing was caught on the boundary after amassing a "solidly impressive" 10 runs (yeah right). It was more of the same as the innings progressed, Shane Watson scored a high for his team with 44 runs before being trapped by Muralidaran.
Cameron White and Steve Smith got started but ran out of time to score the winning runs as Australia slumped to a 29-run loss, losing the series. Australia's losing streak in all forms of the game has reached seven matches, the longest since the 1996-97 season.
I think that this is just ridiculous, Australia used to be regarded as a powerhouse in cricket. It is shocking to watch such bad cricket, Mitchell Johnson needs to improve his bowling considerably, every over at least one ball is either close to a wide or is a wide. In fact every player needs to improve their cricket before the Ashes. It certainly doesn't help when you have your captain getting out for poor scores. With the Ashes so close I think the result has already been determined. Australia will have to play at their best just to match England's scores. At the moment something is definitely not right within the squad and big changes need to be made.
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