*Official* England in Sri Lanka 2021

[Starfighter]

I see on the commentary that Lawrence put down a chance. Big Bash yet to wear off I assume.

 

[cnerd123]

Broad's gonna be a handful in India hey.

Loose shot from Mathews tbf

 

[BoyBrumby]

Pretty ordinary shot from Mathews that.

Good grab from Root though, looked to be travelling.

Disciplined stuff from Broad too.

And Chandimal goes as I type! Leach loops one up and the batter bites. Another smart grab, this time from SCurran.

Different game suddenly.

Catches win etc.

 

[TT Boy]

England not having to work too hard. 5 down on a good batting surface.

 

[cnerd123]

Lanka imploding. Who is their batting coach? Showed no application in SA and seemed to have not learnt from that.

 

[Bahseph]

Chandimal must think he is in the side to add some icing. You know,because Kusal,Dickwella and Shanaka don't exist.

 

[Burgey]

Is Anderson not on this tour?

 

[MW1304]

Is Anderson not on this tour?

He's there, and almost took a hattrick in the warm-up.

 

[Bahseph]

Is Anderson not on this tour?

Apparently he has been left out of the team. One of the commentators said that England must be "pleased with having Sri Lanka 5 down so soon without Anderson". Hold on, they didn't pick him. He doesn't have an injury/family/isolation issue.

 

[cnerd123]

**** gets wickets

 

[Bahnz]

Haha, you've gotta be kidding me.

 

[wpdavid]

Someone on 5Live reckoned that Broad's taken more wickets today that in his previous 3 series in SL combined.

 

[cnerd123]

Someone on 5Live reckoned that Broad's taken more wickets today that in his previous 3 series in SL combined.

yea saw that on Instagram too. Apparently he's taken 1 wicket per test for his last 3 Tests in SL, which also happened to have been in 3 different series.

 

[Spark]

This is abject.

 

[TheJammyTurtle]

Dilruwan is way past his sell by date in this side.

 

[duffer]

Is this great from England, abject from the Lankans or is the pitch difficult?

 

[Spark]

Broad's gonna be a handful in India hey.

Loose shot from Mathews tbf

I mean, ones assumes that he'll be facing better opposition than... whatever this has been today.

 

[cnerd123]

Is this great from England, abject from the Lankans or is the pitch difficult?

Abject would be an understatement. It's like they don't want to be there

 

[Spark]

Is this great from England, abject from the Lankans or is the pitch difficult?

There's a bit of turn there but that's not where most of the dismissals have come from.

 

[Spark]

this is just an ATG Bad Day for SL