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

[YorksLanka]

Well done Silva, keep going lad...

 

[Furball]

that picture of Willis

 

[YorksLanka]

I know meldrew eat your heart out..he is a miserable so and so tho...

 

[King Pietersen]

That was awesome.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Just checked the cricket after sessioning last night/today. Unbelieveable from Rooty, going on to big hundreds is no bad habit to have. Did really well to score that many runs that quickly but the Lankan reply looks solid enough so probably a road. Forcing a result will be difficult without a spinner.

Yeah, that's a habit that Kane Williamson needs to push his average up. It looks like a road, but could it break up in June? Root is a useful partnership breaker; is Moeen a bit more than that?

 

[YorksLanka]

England's day and well done to them on a great effort..am fairly happy with our response with the bat and hopefully we can bat our way out of trouble..

 

[Furball]

Yeah, that's a habit that Kane Williamson needs to push his average up. It looks like a road, but could it break up in June? Root is a useful partnership breaker; is Moeen a bit more than that?

Kohli as well.

 

[Migara]

Great effort by Root.

Ball is reverse swinging by overs 30. Even with dust bowls in Sl that does not happen, even when Vaas and Malinga were bowling. Eranga is known to hoop it around with the old ball and there was hardly any. Either English seamers are very good at producing reverse swing or there's something suspicious going on. Better to test that ball for Murray mints.

 

[91Jmay]

Yeah, that's a habit that Kane Williamson needs to push his average up. It looks like a road, but could it break up in June? Root is a useful partnership breaker; is Moeen a bit more than that?

Moeen is for sure a better bowler than Root. Could rely on him to get through 10 cheapish overs where as Root could get plundered. Neither are going to take wickets though unfortunately. Basically have to be picking both solely as batsmen and the bowling is a bonus.

 

[Migara]

Moeen Ali's off breaks are impressive. That funky RPM meter shows Herath spins it 1400-1600 rpm, while Moeen gives it a tweak between 2.1-2.6k rpm. On a spinning pitch would be taking some serious turn if he can land it on the seam.

 

[ImpatientLime]

Liam Plunkett is still absolute gash.

 

[hendrix]

Great effort by Root.

Ball is reverse swinging by overs 30. Even with dust bowls in Sl that does not happen, even when Vaas and Malinga were bowling. Eranga is known to hoop it around with the old ball and there was hardly any. Either English seamers are very good at producing reverse swing or there's something suspicious going on. Better to test that ball for Murray mints.

1. English seamers are very good at producing reverse swing. Particularly Anderson.

2. It's the second innings and the pitch has dried out.

 

[Migara]

Anderson is nowhere as good as Vaas in producing reverse swing
Even Vaas got it around overs 50 on much much drier pitches in SC.

 

[hendrix]

Anderson is nowhere as good as Vaas in producing reverse swing
Even Vaas got it around overs 50 on much much drier pitches in SC.

Vaas is not playing.
Eranga is not Vaas.
This is not being played in Sri Lanka.
The Duke ball swings more than the Kookaburra.

But anyway, junk posting. Are you calling England cheats?

 

[Goughy]

Liam Plunkett is still absolute gash.

Yep and he has improved!

 

[Prince EWS]

Anderson is nowhere as good as Vaas in producing reverse swing
Even Vaas got it around overs 50 on much much drier pitches in SC.

You'll obviously never think Anderson is as good at producing reverse swing as Vaas if you use Vaas > Anderson as a fact in your assessment of whether his reverse swing was legitimate.

Seriously, it would literally be impossible for anyone to ever be as good as Vaas at producing reverse swing by this logic. The minute anyone provided evidence to the contrary it'd automatically just be used to show they cheated. You can't use someone's inferiority as evidence of their cheating and then use their cheating to back up your assessment of their inferiority. It's circular reasoning at its absolute finest.

A is always better than B, because when B performs better than A it means B has cheated, because A is always better than B, because when...

 

[hendrix]

Anyway, I just watched the highlights and the ball was reversing quite dramatically for Eranga.

Honestly, terrible posting.

 

[Shri]

Could Warner please call Rohit to Aus and punch him on the head before he leaves for England?

 

[ohnoitsyou]

Great effort by Root.

Ball is reverse swinging by overs 30. Even with dust bowls in Sl that does not happen, even when Vaas and Malinga were bowling. Eranga is known to hoop it around with the old ball and there was hardly any. Either English seamers are very good at producing reverse swing or there's something suspicious going on. Better to test that ball for Murray mints.

Ball was reversing at the 20th in the WI the other day

 

[Maximas]

Looks like this game will either be a draw or a pretty heavy English victory, depends how today goes. Although if Sri Lanka can somehow match England's score they might have a chance to have a bowl at England on what may be a turning and inconsistent pitch, who knows. Hopefully we get up to around 450 today about 6 or 7 down.