Sri Lanka v Australia betting tips & preview for 1st ODI - Can Sri Lanka continue with their wood over Australia

Sri Lanka will take on Australia in the first of five ODIs when the two sides meet at the R. Premadasa stadium in Colombo. The match will be played on Sunday, August 21.

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Prior to coming into the ODIs, Sri Lanka drubbed Australia 3-0 in the Test match series. Sri Lanka played a couple of ODIs against Ireland and featured in a five-match ODI series against England as a part of their tour of England this summer Live Cricket Bet tips . While they put Ireland to the sword quite easily, the Sri Lankans were well beaten by England, failing to win even one game.

Australia featured in a tri-series in West Indies prior to coming to Sri Lanka. They were the best team in the league stage against South Africa and West Indies and went on to win the series by beating West Indies.

The visitors have made some significant changes to the squad for the ODIs after a lot of their batsmen struggled in the Tests Cricket bet Tips. Glenn Maxwell missed out as Steve Smith and David Warner continue in their roles of skipper and vice-captain respectively.

Travis Head has been included in the squad alongside George Bailey, Aaron Finch, Mitchell Marsh, Moises Henriques, Shaun Marsh and Usman Khawaja. Nathan Coulter-Nile, James Faulkner, Josh Hazlewood, Mitchell Starc, Nathan Lyon and Adam Zampa will head the bowling attack for the visitors.

Sri Lanka are yet to announce their squad for the ODIs. Kusal Perera, Kusal Mendis, Dinesh Chandimal, and Angelo Mathews are certain to make the side while Upul Tharanga and Danushka Gunathilaka are also in contention.

Nuwan Pradeep and Suranga Lakmal are certain to be picked with Seekkuge Prasanna and Kusal Mendis also set to be named in the squad Live Cricket bet tips . Rangana Herath is retired from ODIs and Sri Lanka will miss his influence after such a stellar performance in the Test series.

Australia toured Sri Lanka in August 2011 and won the five-match ODI series 3-2. The last time these two sides met was at the 2015 ICC World Cup where Australia won by 64 runs Cricket bet tips.

England v Pakistan preview, betting tips 3rd Test - Who will replace Ben Stokes?

England might have levelled their Test series against Pakistan at Old Trafford but there's one selection quandary they still to answer. Who do they get in for Ben Stokes in the third Test at Birmingham?

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Stokes suffered a right calf injury during the second Test and that has ruled him out of the remaining two Tests against Pakistan including this one at Birmingham. Online cricket Bet tips The selectors have named an unchanged squad though, which means the captain and coach have three options to choose from - Steven Finn, Jake Ball and Adil Rashid - for his replacement.

So who has the best chance of making it to the playing XI?

Neither of those three is a like for like replacement for Stokes. Stokes is a lower-order batsman with an average of 33.23, having hit three centuries and six fifties. His medium-pace bowling has already seen him pick up 60 Test wickets from 25 games, Live Cricket Bet tips  making him this format's genuine all-rounder. Finn and Ball are frontline pace bowlers, while Rashid is a leggie who can hold the bat in the shorter formats.

In fact, if England are really looking to bolster their batting in the absence of Stokes, then Rashid could be their best bet. Rashid is a frontline spinner in the shorter format and while he has played just three Test matches, if the conditions demand, he could make for a reasonable bowling option. And with an ODI batting average of 24.5 and a first-class average of 35, his batting skills will never be in doubt.

The problem arises in case the pitch at Birmingham turns out to be a green one or a bouncy surface. Can the English management then take that kind of a chance by going in with just three seamers? They have already won a Test, the last one, playing three seamers because Stoke's injury came quite in the second innings. 

But if the management does decide the pitch isn't suitable for spinners, then it boils down to a toss-up between Finn and Ball.

Finn has the advantage of experience but he has been lacking his rhythm and hence his confidence. Online cricket bet tips He played in the first Test when James Anderson was injured and was tipped to be the one to bite the dust for the second Test when the stalwart came back. That's what happened.

However, Finn also has the advantage of having played in the last Test that was played at Edgbaston and he had gone to scalp eight wickets in the game. Live cricket bet tips That Test, incidentally, was an Ashes Test and was also seeing Finn make a comeback into the Test set-up, so there's something his memory could rely on to get back to rhythm.

Ball's advantage is his rawness and his ability to crank up the pace. Cricket Bet Tips That's also his disadvantage, having played just one Test - the first one against Pakistan at Lord's - and since then, he has picked up four wickets from four List A and T20 games. That Ball has been selected to the squad means the selectors have seen something in him but does he still get the nod over Finn? Will be an interesting call and could lead to even more undermining of Finn's confidence.

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