That’s all for today. We’ll have a match report shortly, and Jim and I will be back on Friday for the second game. See you then.
Steve Smith’s reaction
I don’t think the toss was too important – the wicket was pretty similar throughout. Charith was the difference, he played beautifully through the middle. I thought our bowlers did a really good job; unfortunately none of our batters were able to get going. Sometimes that happens.
It was a tricky wicket to bat on. The seamers were getting a lot of movement. There wasn’t a whole heap of spin but it was skidding on and we didn’t get going with the bat. We’ll be better for the run.
We’ve got a big ICC tournament coming up but we want to win these games. We were outplayed today; we’ll come again on Friday.
