*Official* England Tour of Sri Lanka 2018

[trundler]

B-b-but remember that time he did well in Australia when Shane Watson was their only good batsman? That proves he's a great overseas bowler. Not the million other overseas games where he looks more toothless than a 102 year old grandma.

That's only cause he's British

 

[Adders]

B-b-but remember that time he did well in Australia when Shane Watson was their only good batsman? That proves he's a great overseas bowler. Not the million other overseas games where he looks more toothless than a 102 year old grandma.

2 things to say here.....

1st.....take back that like you just give me you utter utter ****.

2nd....560+{ wickets mother****er.

 

[Daemon]

Only 56 in the absence of clouds though

This is one of the reasons why i never get far in botm isn't it

 

[OverratedSanity]

Kumble has 600+. You don't see us pretending he's some all time great on the level of Courtney Walsh or anything.

 

[Adders]

Only 56 in the absence of clouds though

This is one of the reasons why i never get far in botm isn't it

They don't play cricket in England in June???

And yes....yes it is (same probably goes for me too itbt)

 

[Gomez656]

Playing XI: Joe Burns, Keaton Jennings, Jonny Bairstow, Joe Root (c), Ben Stokes, Jos Buttler, Moeen Ali, Ben Foakes (wk), Adil Rashid, Jack Leach, Stuart Broad.

Possible XI: Kaushal Silva/Danushka Gunathilaka, Dimuth Karunaratne, Dhananjaya de Silva, Kusal Mendis, Roshen Silva, Angelo Matthews, Niroshan Dickwella (wk), Dilruwan Perera, Malinda Pushpakumara, Suranga Lakmal (c), Lakshan Sandakan.



Did you know?



- Sri Lanka have a 9-2 win-loss record at the SSC since August 2004, with both their defeats at this venue coming against India.



- Joe Root is 115 runs away from becoming the first player to aggregate 2000+ runs in international cricket in four consecutive years.



- Since Jan 2014, England have featured in 18 series and lost at least one Test every series barring two - against Sri Lanka at home in 2016 and the ongoing one.

 

[Gomez656]

Kumble has 600+. You don't see us pretending he's some all time great on the level of Courtney Walsh or anything.

Both Anderson and MSD out temporary
Both will returns when their country need them
Anderson for test and Dhoni for limited over cricket

 

[Adders]

Yeah....not quite the same though is it. MSD is done.....Jimmy has just had the best 2 years of his career.

 

[harsh.ag]

Yeah....not quite the same though is it. MSD is done.....Jimmy has just had the best 2 years of his career.

Quoting this on the million to one shot of Dhoni winning another WC with a six next year as Jimmy watches the game from outside the dressing room.

 

[Adders]

More chance of you infracting/banning the right person than MSD lifting the WC next year Harsh. And Jimmy won't be watching the WC.......he'll be working hard preparing to chase down Kumbles record.

 

[harsh.ag]

More chance of you infracting/banning the right person than MSD lifting the WC next year Harsh.

Well obviously, that's just a hundred to one shot.

And Jimmy won't be watching the WC.......he'll be working hard preparing to chase down Kumbles record.

This is just sad.

 

[Burgey]

Kumble has 600+. You don't see us pretending he's some all time great on the level of Courtney Walsh or anything.

He probably is spin bowling’s Courtney Walsh tbh. Prolific and very good without the touch of genius which others have/ had.

But as you correctly point out, Anderson is basically **** without cloud cover.

 

[theegyptian]

Apparently Foakes will bat at 8, with Ali at 7. Wouldn't have been my choice either.

It's kinda crazy if that happens. Foakes has been the best batsman on the England side in the series and yet he's going to be batting 8. Yes he's played well with the tail but he's also looked more capable than any of the other batsman in the team including Root imo. They are losing out on runs scored by batting him 8, especially with no Curran behind him to bat with. Ali has scored 23 runs across the series so far.

 

[Gremlin]

Agreed. Unless this is one of those flexible order things.

 

[vcs]

8 tosses in a row for Root.

 

[social]

Pretty awful innings from Jennings

 

[Flametree]

With Silva not playing, this will be the first time in a while that Sri Lanka have fewer wicket-keepers than their opponents...

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Not seen anything yet, good pitch to bat on I presume. Be nice to get a big first innings score for a change.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Batted YJB.

Hope my dream is wrong, before I woke up I saw a scorecard with him out LBW 50.

 

[trundler]

When will they realise that #intent is stupid.