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

[hazsa19]

Gah i'de just put the tennis on!

 

[Outswinger@Pace]

The baby-faced big fast bowler is pumped up. A good couple of balls to Thilan.

 

[Prince EWS]

Don't really know where I stand with Finn. I watch him bowl and what he sends down doesn't seem quite Test standard yet - not for such a good team anyway - but he keeps taking wickets. I keep thinking sanity will prevail and it'll just stop, but even when he's sending down some real crap like here and in Australia he keeps taking 'em... there's something to letting the game itself do the analysis.

 

[Blaze 18]

Good to see England reverting to type after their attack's fluking the Ashes last summer.

 

[Spark]

Don't really know where I stand with Finn. I watch him bowl and what he sends down doesn't seem quite Test standard yet - not for such a good team anyway - but he keeps taking wickets. I keep thinking sanity will prevail and it'll just stop, but even when he's sending down some real crap like here and in Australia he keeps taking 'em... there's something to letting the game itself do the analysis.

Has enough natural gifts for his really good balls to be genuinely wicket taking in their own right, tbf. Anyway, us Aussies should used to dross picking up wickets at very regular intervals...

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Get deep backward square up! Worst position.

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Sameraweera looks village out there

 

[TopCat]

Crikey, Finn's been transformed since lunch.

 

[Outswinger@Pace]

Sameraweera looks village out there

When was the last time he looked anything else outside of his nation against bowlers with some bounce and movement.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Sameraweera looks village out there

Yup.

Fully aware I'm probably cueing him up for a ton, but I don't think I've ever seen a chap who averages 50+ over such a long period look so meh. & it seems to be whenever I've seen him too.

 

[TopCat]

Hmmm...........drizzle stopped play.

 

[MW1304]

Well I've been revising all morning so didn't get to watch, but looks like another thoroughly disappointing bowling display.

England fans should never ever get too far ahead of themselves. Remain pessimistic and we'll always exceed expectations, IMO.

 

[GIMH]

It's really not very heavy tbh

 

[Xuhaib]

Don't really know where I stand with Finn. I watch him bowl and what he sends down doesn't seem quite Test standard yet - not for such a good team anyway - but he keeps taking wickets. I keep thinking sanity will prevail and it'll just stop, but even when he's sending down some real crap like here and in Australia he keeps taking 'em... there's something to letting the game itself do the analysis.

Him and Sreesanth are quite simillar both bowl a lot of rubbish but bowl enough wicket taking balls that they are able to end up with decent hauls.

 

[Prince EWS]

Him and Sreesanth are quite simillar both bowl a lot of rubbish but bowl enough wicket taking balls that they are able to end up with decent hauls.

Don't think he's similar to Sreesanth at all tbh.

 

[benchmark00]

Yup.

Fully aware I'm probably cueing him up for a ton, but I don't think I've ever seen a chap who averages 50+ over such a long period look so meh. & it seems to be whenever I've seen him too.

Is a victim of black magic tbf.

 

[TopCat]

Play about to resume, but looking at the rain radar it may only be 15-20 minutes before they are taken off again.

EDIT: It's raining again already.

 

[Spark]

Boycott championing innovative, progressive ideas in cricket (on TMS now)? How odd.

 

[Outswinger@Pace]

Boycott championing innovative, progressive ideas in cricket (on TMS now)? How odd.

That 246 against India at Leeds, 1967 was both innovative and progressive!

 

[slowfinger]

Watching Alec Stewert and Nasser Hussain bat , classic!

 

[GIMH]

No relenting

 

[TopCat]

I don't think there will be any more play today tbh.

Looks like there is another hour of light to medium rain to come, if not more as it develops to the SSE and moves inland.