**Official** Sri Lanka in England / Scotland - 2011

[vcs]

Should just use him the same way England used Simon Jones.

This method would also improve the fielding.

Prepare to see a lot of Raina filling in for Zaheer in the field later this summer.

 

[TopCat]

I hope we see a bit more action in this session, I'm a bit fed up with the pace of the game.

 

[Spark]

Finally, someone else gets a bowl. Why choose 5 bowlers if 2 of them do most of the work?

 

[Spark]

150 for Trott. He's absurd.

 

[BoyBrumby]

150 for Trotters.

4 score of 150 in (IIRC) 19 tests. That must stand comparison to some of the greats.

 

[Howe_zat]

Well played Trotty, though if we're being honest, the job was done yesterday. These aren't the most relevant runs in the world.

150 for Trott. He's absurd.

He thinks you're absurd.

 

[vcs]

Yeah, Trott is brilliant. What impressed me even more was the way he has knuckled down and become a gun ODI player, though he doesn't look like a natural for that format. Was superb in the WC on slow, low tracks that aren't really suited to the way he plays. Great mentality.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

The machine goes on, such an appetite for runs it is unreal.

Wonder if he can carry it on at anything like the rate he is now. Obviously he isn't going to average 67 after 50 or so tests but i wonder how far it will drop off in that time. Is he another Jimmy Adams for example?

 

[Spark]

There's enough happening in the pitch for England to want to get a move on IMO.

 

[TopCat]

I hope we see a bit more action in this session, I'm a bit fed up with the pace of the game.

It seems I was asking for too much.

 

[Shri]

You're confusing Top_Cat with TopCat.

Oh yeah. Just checked the members list.

 

[Howe_zat]

Jonathan Trott is relentless

 

[Spark]

Sigh. So annoying.

 

[TopCat]

Run rate for the last 10 overs is just 1.3

 

[akilana]

Run rate for the last 10 overs is just 1.3

Comon, they're trying to win it.

 

[Spark]

 

[Jacknife]

There could be a argument made, for getting up to 400 and then playing like a 20/20 game, get as many as you can, as quick as you can and having a crack at the SL's. The pitch is defo doing a bit more today, variable bounce and a little bit more turn, even with 3 bowlers on the last day, it must be worth a crack.

 

[TopCat]

Those Sri Lankans are superb fielders!

 

[Neil Pickup]

Comon, they're trying to win it.

How many balls have the seamers bowled that would have hit the stumps?

Memo to Stuart Law: sign a fielding coach.

 

[Jacknife]

Top shot 53 up for Belly.