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

[Thala_0710]

219 to win for SL.
Eng 55-45 for me

 

[GIMH]

30 short of being favourites but it won’t be easy

 

[BazBall21]

England ahead just if Atkinson can bowl, imo. Kind of hope Sri Lanka win though.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Hope we lose. Deserve to after the brainless cricket in this test.

 

[Pothas]

Hope we lose. Deserve to after the brainless cricket in this test.

So weird

 

[flibbertyjibber]

So weird

What, hoping a lesson can be learnt by not being so stupid and gung ho all the time?

 

[Silver Silva]

219 to win for SL.
Eng 55-45 for me

I think Sri Lanka should back themselves to win, just for personal pride, a lot of good batters in this team that haven't turned up , they can make that right .

 

[Thala_0710]

I think Sri Lanka should back themselves to win, just for personal pride, a lot of good batters in this team that haven't turned up , they can make that right .

I'm hoping for the same

 

[Qlder]

Haha England bowled out for 156 trying to bazball 5 an over

 

[Molehill]

What, hoping a lesson can be learnt by not being so stupid and gung ho all the time?

The biggest bit of stupidity in this game was bowling spin for so long instead of going off.

 

[BazBall21]

England deserve to lose this game for a number of reasons.

 

[PlayerComparisons]

They got mahelas average wrong

 

[Silver Silva]

7000 Test runs for Karunaratne

Went past Jayasuriya in this test. Been a great player for Sri Lanka

 

[Chin Music]

That was unlucky. Surprised it nipped back so much.

 

[Silver Silva]

It's amazing how Nissanka has transformed, he never was considered an ultra attacking batter until the last couple of years or so ..

Test strike rate in 2021 - 43.31
Test strike rate in 2022 - 45.83

Test Strike rate this series - 102.23


ODI Cricket 2021-2022 : 577 runs in 20 inns @30.37 , SR - 79.81

ODI Cricket 2023-2024 : 1749 runs in 39 inns @51.44 , SR 93.83

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Needed that

 

[BazBall21]

Woakes hasn't shown much patience which is disappointing. He needed to set the example to a much less experienced attack (and an inexperienced captain) - when defending a low total you need to stick to processes and not get drawn in to chasing magic balls.

 

[PlayerComparisons]

Anderson would have been useful in these conditions

 

[GIMH]

Looking like they’ll breeze home currently, of course we all know these chases can shift suddenly.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Excellent batting this. Not high risk like ours, just putting away crap balls of which there have been plenty.