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

[Spark]

SL fielding a two-man attack today, it seems

 

[BoyBrumby]

Somebody in England management must realy think KP is the chosen one.

Last ODI century was 2008, and in his 30 knocks since then his average is 23 with 2 x 50's.

Almost makes you wonder if we should put Bell at 3 and bring back Ravi.

Glad you qualified that with "almost". Taylor or (my choice) Hales to be given a shot before, surely?

Jos Buttler back in the runs now too.

 

[The_roc]

Trott looking a lot better today.

He's had a bit of stick recently, but don't know why. Averaging 52 must put him top of the England ODI stats

 

[Spark]

Ball-watching. Tsk tsk.

 

[Uppercut]

Good partnership, this. Swann later should be fun.

 

[vcs]

Trott is so good. The new Kallis.

 

[Spark]

These two making it look comfortable without making the pitch look a road - which is what the score suggests.

ED: Botham. Not the brightest bulb in the store, is he?

 

[The_roc]

Double your score from the 30 over mark?

 

[grecian]

Bell deserves dropping before Pietersen does.

Both need dropping.

 

[Spark]

Double your score from the 30 over mark?

Possibly. No PP, but considering England's record, that might not be a bad thing at all.

Even if they don't, they're well on track for a massive score considering the pitch, outfield, weather etc.

 

[vcs]

Wish the commentators would stop talking about ****ing football just because the ground shares its name with a certain football club's ground.

 

[grecian]

Double your score from the 30 over mark?

Depends on Morgan really if he scores big, anythings possible, Bell is in next so he'll slow the scoring down with about a 45 ball 30. Hope Samit can give a boost to the innings, but a lot of pressure on him, just being picked for this decider.

 

[Jacknife]

Wish the commentators would stop talking about ****ing football just because the ground shares its name with a certain football club's ground.

More a talking point because it's next door, to the ground.

 

[wpdavid]

Double your score from the 30 over mark?

354 would be nice, but I don't see it happening. Maybe 300 if we don't lose too many wickets.

 

[Spark]

When you get to 200 with only 3 down in the 35th, you should be looking some way past 300.

 

[Manee]

This is some of the greatest commentary in the history of time.

 

[Jacknife]

Only one boundary for Morgan in his 50 but really good batting, none the less.
There's the second, lovely shot.

 

[wpdavid]

When you get to 200 with only 3 down in the 35th, you should be looking some way past 300.

I guess. But these two are going at five and a bit an over, which would take us to 280. Obviously they'll want to accelerate, so it's a question of how successfully they do that. I still don't think they'll double the score of 177 after 30 overs, but point taken that 300 would be disappointing from where we are now. tbh I hadn't looked at the score too closely with my previous post.

 

[Spark]

Dilshan gets one! Maybe that'll peg England back a bit.

 

[Burgey]

Enjoy seeing cricket at Old Trafford as it's a great old ground. Personally think it the scene of Steve Waugh's greatest moment.

But tbh it looks rank village as a venue ATM. Not souch the pitch bit the outfield.

Morgan gone.