***Official*** Sri Lanka in England and Ireland 2014

[Dan]

If they really wanted to "look to the future" and still pick a pure 'keeper, everything I've heard about Michael Bates from Hampshire suggests he's an absolute gun with the gloves, if pretty mediocre with the bat.

 

[wpdavid]

I was about to say what a good start this was for SL, then Perera did that. Maybe because of Anderson's maiden for the previous over?

 

[91Jmay]

Sri Lanka well placed to post a pretty big total here, anything over 270 is going to be a huge chase for England.

 

[Pothas]

Love watching a class player find his touch during an innings.

 

[91Jmay]

Gorgeous player to watch is Sangakarra.

 

[91Jmay]

Revising their total up to 300-320. Sad thought that England are going to think they need another bowler (maybe they do, I'm not sure) and bring in Ben Stokes. Not sold on him as a white ball player at all yet.

 

[Adders]

Cook's gotta bring back one of the quicks........this is all too easy for the Lankans atm.

 

[Adders]

Good man.

Edit:

Agree with KNight though, should give Jordan a slip.........we need wickets.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Be quite good if SL win this really and set up a decider.

 

[91Jmay]

That should probably be a dead ball rather than a dot IMO. Root just trying to play the ball but he clearly took Dilshan out.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Think ambition rather got the better of Dilshan there. An attempted scoop to an 89.4mph yorker maybe not the best option.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

SL should get 330+ here

 

[91Jmay]

Botham explaining to us that Kumar Sangakarra's first hundred at Lords is his highest score here. Really beef, thanks.

 

[91Jmay]

Why has Gurney come around the wicket? Was bowling great over it. FFS

 

[Jarquis]

If they really wanted to "look to the future" and still pick a pure 'keeper, everything I've heard about Michael Bates from Hampshire suggests he's an absolute gun with the gloves, if pretty mediocre with the bat.

Bates is a freak of a keeper but would bat at 10 in the Test side

 

[91Jmay]

Tredwell another good spell 1-39, fast becoming one of our most reliable + useful ODI players.

 

[grecian]

Tredwell another good spell 1-39, fast becoming one of our most reliable + useful ODI players.

It's amazing isn't it, keeps on performing, 50 wickets at 25 going at well under 5 an over.

Sometimes comms can be so old-fashioned, saying it was good for the Lankans to just pick off singles after Jimmeh's bad start to the over. That's fair enough in the middle-overs, but at the death with wickets in hand they should have been hoping for a really big over.

 

[Adders]

Never gonna give this out, even if it is.

 

[Adders]

****, that's a surprise. Reckon it was out but there must be some doubt there.

 

[Dan]

Bates is a freak of a keeper but would bat at 10 in the Test side

Which isn't necessarily a problem if they were going to pick Moeen-Prior-Stokes as the 6-7-8

Cook/Robson/Bell/Root/Ballance/Moeen/Stokes/Woakes/Broad/Bates/Anderson

Sub in whoever you want as the third seamer for Woakes; just chucked him in there because I cbf thinking about who to pick and I like him.