***Official*** England vs Sri Lanka 21st August-10th September 2024

[SillyCowCorner1]

Getting Brook to play the horizontal bat shot way outside off. Double edged sword

 

[BazBall21]

Very hard to dispute that. Lawrence you can sympathise with as he's a fish out of water. The other two have been just daft. They say that you should get at least 3 wickets if you put the oppo in. Minimum job done from Sri Lanka.

SL bowled first because this top 3 is so flakey and they've been vindicated.

Lawrence - I reckon they've asked him to him open because an actual opener coming in and scoring a boat-load would give them a selection headache.

 

[LangleyburyCCPlayer]

Wouldn’t say I’m tooooo concerned yet, Root, Brook and Smith is very much the engine room of this team, Woakes very able to stick around too

 

[Howe_zat]

this is unreasonable from cricinfo

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Do not replace 94/3 with 97/5 without a substantial change in format please

 

[ImpatientLime]

When in doubt, play a switch-hit

/dumba$s

it may have been a dumb shot, but don't you feel that test cricket is closer to being saved now that he played it?

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

it may have been a dumb shot, but don't you feel that test cricket is closer to being saved now that he played it?

Jay Shah saved test cricket

 

[BazBall21]

At least 40-2 will help Root. Convinced he'd get bored if he came in and we were well on top.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

That over rate tho…Shannon Gabriel would be proud of it.

 

[Molehill]

SL bowled first because this top 3 is so flakey and they've been vindicated.

Which is why I'd still pick a batsman at 6 instead of a bowler at 8 to replace Stokes.

 

[Molehill]

24 overs from SL in that session, that's even worse than England normally achieve.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

1111

@ashley bach

 

[BazBall21]

Which is why I'd still pick a batsman at 6 instead of a bowler at 8 to replace Stokes.

Woakes is a good enough batsman at home to play no7 v SL and they want the extra bowler in there to help workloads.

 

[The Brian Hardie Stance]

So we are on course for a whopping 72 overs bowled by the time 6pm comes around. Paying public are truly being conned.

 

[Spark]

24 overs from SL in that session, that's even worse than England normally achieve.

No better evidence that no one really, truly cares about the WTC at the end of the day than the fact that over rates have not improved at all across the board since the points penalty came in.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Woakes is a good enough batsman at home to play no7 v SL and they want the extra bowler in there to help workloads.

More than competent at home.

 

[Kenneth Viljoen]

24 overs in a session is pathetic

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

So we are on course for a whopping 72 overs bowled by the time 6pm comes around. Paying public are truly being conned.

Jayasuriya will hold down one end post lunch. Expect to see the over rate going up. He’s bowled only a single over.

 

[chris.hinton]

Not a good start. But 300 should be on

 

[Hungry Llama]

3 soft dismissals, very bazball. at least we wont have to bat last, but pitch looks fine.

 

[King Kane]

Not a great session for England but at least they have a few of their most sensible batsmen left in Root, Smith and Woakes.

I wouldn't call Brook sensible at this stage of his test career but he could be quite damaging if he can get going after lunch.