***Official*** England in Sri Lanka 2012

[stumpski]

I'd be tempted to give Trott an over I think.

 

[Spark]

Mahela Jayawardene, you little beauty

I already moved your post

 

[stumpski]

Before this series Mahela went 12 innings without reaching 40. We seem to play everyone back into form.

 

[Prince EWS]

I already moved your post

Brothers in arms eh?

 

[vic_orthdox]

Mahela, WAG.

And what a cricinfo profile shot.

 

[Arachnodouche]

Looks like a bit of a smug **** if you ask me. Home track bully

Great knock, though.

 

[Lostman]

Mahela, WAG.

And what a cricinfo profile shot.

The peoples unibrow

 

[Burgey]

Does Patel actually, well, turn them at all?

 

[Spark]

Before this series Mahela went 12 innings without reaching 40. We seem to play everyone back into form.

Wish Clarke and Ponting could've recieved a dose of this "playing people into form" of which you speak.

 

[Spikey]

turns his (x) over when he's baking them iirc



boy that was a struggle. I really thought there was a food joke there for the taking.

 

[Cabinet96]

Does Patel actually, well, turn them at all?

Doesn't seem so. Just doesn't get any revs on the ball. Struass obviously feeling Pietersen is the better option.

 

[CWB304]

bye bye England..........

Unfortunately you're right. Given the continued refusal to replace the non-performing middle order batsmen, all it takes is for one opposition batsman to play well and cash in properly for England to be utterly stuffed in conditions like these.

When you just *know* that your key batsmen at 4 and 5 are not going to get a hundred runs across their four innings - and are in fact statistically much likelier to aggregate closer to fifty -, you tend to lose hope the minute an opposing batsman scores a century and looks like possibly making it a "daddy". The England team themselves are probably aware that the most likely consequence of Mahela's innings is a thumping defeat.

 

[Spark]

Well that surprised me.

 

[Burgey]

Height?

 

[Spark]

Fair enough then. Wasn't giving it myself, but it looks like it'd been overturned even if given not out. Good call.

 

[Burgey]

Big wicket just before the new ball.

He looks pissed.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Strauss 'only' costs us 30 runs this time. He might just get them back, across two innings. Then again he might not.

 

[Cabinet96]

HUGE wicket with the new ball coming up. Great appeal be England as well.

 

[theegyptian]

Unfortunately you're right. Given the continued refusal to replace the non-performing middle order batsmen, all it takes is for one opposition batsman to play well and cash in properly for England to be utterly stuffed in conditions like these.

When you just *know* that your key batsmen at 4 and 5 are not going to get a hundred runs across their four innings - and are in fact statistically much likelier to aggregate closer to fifty -, you tend to lose hope the minute an opposing batsman scores a century and looks like possibly making it a "daddy". The England team themselves are probably aware that the most likely consequence of Mahela's innings is a thumping defeat.

broken record.

 

[wpdavid]

Need to give him some recovery time before he takes the new ball, tbf.

That's the only reason I could think of at the time, but it was still captaincy by numbers, with no evidence of reading the situation. Anderson was bowling such a magic spell and Matthews was so completely all over the place that it was worth another over or so. If it came to nothing, the new ball could have been delayed if need be. As it is, Matthews is now set and the new ball may not be such a factor anyway.