Australia 6/417 off 50 overs
Afghanistan 142 off 37.3 overs
Luckily Afghanistan did the right thing and bowled first otherwise Australia would have been chasing a total under 150 giving the Aussies only 20 overs or so to bat.
They had a good hit out today getting a full 50 overs at the crease, but Clarke decided not to bat for a reason unknown to me.
With Sri Lanka coming up and should early wickets fall then Clarke has put the side at risk given his lack of recent match practice and time out in the middle.
He also used up valuable overs by bowling himself instead of giving more overs to Australia's frontline bowlers. I'm sure Faulkner, for example, could have benefited with a near 10 over spell instead of the four overs he got - Clarke himself bowled 5 overs.
He got it wrong IMO - he should have batted whilst he should not have bowled and those decisions might come back to bite him on the butt come Sunday when the Aussies front up against Sri Lanka.
Sri Lanka are a formidable ODI outfit. Their batting is as strong as it gets with Dilshan, Sangakarra, Jayawardene, Thirimanne, Mathews, Chandimal and Perera. Then you have their pace bowling attack headed by Malinga with world-class spin bowling from Herath and it doesn't take much of an imagination to realise that the Aussies will have to play out of their skins to beat them on Sunday.
