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*Official* England Tour of Sri Lanka 2018

Maximas

Maximas

Cricketer Of The Year
randycricfreak said:
Dimuth Karunaratne
Kaushal Silva
Dhananjaya De Silva
Kusal Mendis
Dinesh Chandimal
Angelo Mathews
Dickwella (wk)
Dilruwan
Akila
Herath
Lakmal

Roshen Silva will have to sit out.
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Is Kaushal Silva pretty much a lock to effectively replace Gunathilaka? Seems the best choice to me, and I'd say he'll be needed for the overseas tours that we'll be making shortly, he formed a decent opening stand with Dimuth and at one point SL openers actually had the best average of all test playing nations (around 2013-15 iirc)

Otherwise no surprises, although if any of the decks offer some assistance to the pace bowlers Lahiru Kumara has been in good form, could potentially come in for Herath at Pallekele
 
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jstenson

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FBU

FBU

International Debutant
Maximas said:
Is Kaushal Silva pretty much a lock to effectively replace Gunathilaka? Seems the best choice to me, and I'd say he'll be needed for the overseas tours that we'll be making shortly, he formed a decent opening stand with Dimuth and at one point SL openers actually had the best average of all test playing nations (around 2013-15 iirc)

Otherwise no surprises, although if any of the decks offer some assistance to the pace bowlers Lahiru Kumara has been in good form, could potentially come in for Herath at Pallekele
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Lahiru Kumara has been found guilty of breaching the team's code of conduct and will be replaced by Dushmantha Chameera in the 16 member Test squad set to face England.
 
Maximas

Maximas

Cricketer Of The Year
Yeah saw that reported a few hours after my post, I think Rajitha would be the incumbent pace bowler after Kumara though given how his performance in WI and some other recent ODIs, I'd say if Kumara stays out of the set-up for decent period of time then Chameera will get a look in on the Aus tour though
 
the big bambino

the big bambino

Cricketer Of The Year
I read a suggestion that Stokes should be at 3. How is he against the new ball? I get an impression he'd be ok and probably better than Moeen. Given the spinners will carry the bowling it might make sense to bat him there now and start against the new nut. Is Stokes the kind of player whose batting becomes more important as he ages? If his future is batting may as well begin it now, especially when the other options at 3 are no more impressive tstl.
 
Gnske

Gnske

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
No Woakes

The selectors had one ****ing job and they ruined the chance of a lifetime.
 
Prince EWS

Prince EWS

Global Moderator
Prince EWS said:
I'd consider Denly's bowling if it helped for the overall balance of the side -- I could theoretically imagine a circumstance in which Sri Lanka were batting last and a different spinner of a different style could get a couple of breakthroughs -- but given they'll be picking at least two if not three better spinners including another leg spinner, it shouldn't factor in much. The existence of Ali and Stokes balances the side in such a way as to make Denly's bowling an irrelevance from a selection perspective.

I'd probably pick him anyway just because I don't think Moeen Ali should bat above five in Test cricket ever again, but his bowling wouldn't really factor in for me.
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So far no taste.
 
cnerd123

cnerd123

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lot of spinners being picked by either side here. Bit of an overkill isn't it? Does SL really need 4 spin options?

And their one quick bowler is on a hattrick now lol.
 
Starfighter

Starfighter

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When you're playing a team with three spinners on a favourable deck collapsing to their lone fast bowler is ill-advised.
 
Prince EWS

Prince EWS

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***** said:
lot of spinners being picked by either side here. Bit of an overkill isn't it? Does SL really need 4 spin options?
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Eh, Dhananjaya de Silva is basically just a batsman who rolls his arm over at this level - 7 wickets in 17 Tests. Three spinners and one quick is a perfectly legitimate balance on an absolute bunsen (assuming that's what they read this pitch as) IMO, especially when your third spinner is an overall much better bowler than who the second quick would be.

England's lineup is weird, but it's always going to be weird with the allrounders they've got I guess. I reckon Curran will be the one who doesn't end up getting much of a bowl (maybe even just one opening spell per new ball), so hopefully he makes it count with the bat. I'd have probably picked two more specialist batsmen than England ended up going with.
 
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