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If experience counts in finals footy then Gold Coast may as well not turn up for Fridays elimination clash with Brisbane.The Titans head up the Pacific Motorway for their first finals appearance in six years with an accumulated 30 finals matches across their starting 13 with Chris McQueen the only premiership winner in their team.Brisbane, last years grand finalists, boast 124 finals across their starting lineup with Darius Boyd, Sam Thaiday, Corey Parker having all won premierships.Adam Blair has also tasted grand final success as a member of the 2009 Melbourne team which would later have their premiership win stripped for salary cap breaches.The Titans boast four players making their finals debut in Konrad Hurrell, Nene MacDonald, Ashley Taylor and Ryan James while only two of Brisbanes starting 13 - centres Tom Opacic and James Roberts - are new to finals football.Veteran backrower Thaiday doesnt however buy into the argument the Titans are lambs heading to a Suncorp Stadium slaughter.Yeah we made the grand final last year, weve got the 13 players from that (game) playing again now but weve got some young guys in our team that dont have that semi-final experience, Thaiday told AAP.Anything can happen in semi-finals. Everyones playing to get through to the next week.Im sure theyre going to bring their best brand of footy all year because they want to rub peoples face in it, the ones who doubted them.Thaiday is also backing Roberts, who established himself as a rising star of the game last year at Gold Coast before a bungled contract resulted in a move to the Broncos.The 23-year-old also recently copped a $20,000 fine and has been ordered to undertake community service after two separate drunken incidents at Brisbane nightspots.Jimmys one of those players thats pretty chilled and pretty laidback, Thaiday said.It wont faze him too much coming up against the Titans.Hell enjoy the challenge like he does every week and go out there and do a job for the Broncos.Bob Gainey Canadiens Jersey . -- Mike Smith never saw his first NHL goal go in. Larry Robinson Jersey . Hamelin, who triumphed in the 500 on Saturday, edged out Victor An of Russia by 0.021 seconds to maintain his lead in the World Cup standings. 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Traded from Seattle to Baltimore on Aug. 30, Morse also can play first base and right field to give manager Bruce Bochy some flexibility in writing his lineup.5 for 62 The previous best by an Australia seamer in Tests in Sri Lanka - by Ryan Harris at the same venue in Sri Lankas second innings in 2011. Mitchell Starcs 5 for 44 is now the best and only the second five-for by an Australia seamer in Tests against Sri Lanka. Starcs is also the fourth-best haul by an Australia bowler in Tests in Sri Lanka. Three of the four best efforts by Australia bowlers in Sri Lanka have come in Galle.1 Number of times a seamer has returned better figures in Tests in Galle than Mitchell Starcs in Sri Lankas first innings. Dilhara Fernando had taken 5 for 42 in Indias first innings in 2001. Starcs returns bettered the previous best by an overseas seamer at this venue - Dale Steyns 5 for 54 in 2014.3 Number of Australia left-arm seamers to take 100 or more wickets in Tests before Mitchell Starc, who reached the milestone with the wicket of Kusal Mendis. Mitchell Johnson (313), Alan Davidson (186) and Bruce Reid (113) are the others to do it. Including Starc, only 13 left-arm fast bowlers have taken 100-plus wickets in Tests.16.27 Starcs bowling average in this series; he has taken 11 wickets at a strike rate of 25.10. In two Tests against Sri Lanka at home in 2013-14, he had taken 10 wickets at 28.70. Starcs numbers in Tests since 2015 have mirrored his excellent form in limited-overs cricket in this period: he has taken 57 wickets at an average of 23.36 and a strike rate of 40.90 in 13 Tests. Before 2015, he had 45 wickets at an average of 36.22 and a strike rate of 62.90.262 Runs by Kusal Mendis in two back-to-back Test innings against Australia - the most by any Sri Lanka batsman, beating Kumar Sangakkaras 249 runs. Mendis followed his 176 in the last Test witth an 86 in this innings.dddddddddddd. Sangakkara had made 57 and 192 in the Hobart Test in 2007-08.20Fifty-plus scores by Angelo Mathews as Sri Lankas captain in Tests. Only Mahela Jayawardene (24) and Arjuna Ranatunga (24) have made more such scores while leading Sri Lanka. Overall this was his 32nd fifty-plus scores in Tests. Mathews last ten innings have fetched only 282 runs at an average of 28.20 with three fifties. He had got out for single-digit scores in five of the other seven innings. He had scored 3936 runs at 50.46 before that.8.33 Openers average in this series - the worst in any series with a minimum of ten innings from them. David Warners 42 in Australias innings was only the second score of 10 or more from an opener in this series. Joe Burns had made 29 runs in the second innings of the Pallekele Test. The other ten scores by them have all been in single-digits.1999 The last time before Dimuth Karunaratne a Sri Lanka opener was dismissed on the first ball of a Test. Sanath Jayasuriya had got out on that occasion to Glenn McGrath at the same venue. Click here for a list of batsmen to be dismissed on the first ball of Tests.2 Number of third-wicket stands for Sri Lanka in Tests against Australia that have added more runs than the one in this Test. Sanath Jayasuirya and Arjuna Ranatunga added 125 in Adelaide in 1996, which is the highest third-wicket stand for Sri Lanka against Australia. Marvan Atapattu and Mahela Jayawardene added 124 in Sri Lankas first innings in Cairns in 2004, which is the only other higher stand than the one in this Test. ' ' '