archie mac
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Give them the light, even I am feeling sorry for them
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***Official*** England in Sri Lanka
- Thread starter JASON
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ohtani's jacket
State Vice-Captain
Dude has a 213 run stake in the 418 runs England trail by.
Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
Third-biggest, I think. The lead in that game (we did indeed bat first) was actually only 363, I'd thought it was bigger than that.
Nope, but he doesn't need to enfore the follow-on. I'd always only ever enforce follow-on if it's essential. Too many people, for mine, take the "follow-on as a rule, don't use follow-on as an exception".
As I said - the series is wrapped-up, you could inflict an even more impressive defeat by batting again. And if it rains and mucks it up, it doesn't matter.
They want to be home before Christmas Eve...
Prince EWS
Global Moderator
Really, I could see the logic to that if it wasn't for the bad weather around. Enforcing the follow on gives Sri Lanka the best chance of winning the match, so it's definitely the right decision for mine.
What an awesome start for the New Galle Stadium from a SriLankan view point....
Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
Langeveldt
Soutie
I've seen far worse batting performances to be honest, and I don't think the wicket was as good as it's been made out to be.. I'm struggling to think of the worse batting performances, but I think they all involve England anyway..
He (Vaas) deserved a 5 'fer.What an extraordinary run-out! That livens things up a bit. Shame Vaas is denied a five-for by that a bit, but never mind.
I really would love it if he batted again here TBH.
Vaughan's poor decision to put the opposition in after winning the toss IMO was the most crucial mistake of all....
As I said repeatedly before, IN SL the Team winning the toss is stupid not to bat first...Australia pulled off a 3-0 whitewash easily mainly because they won three tosses and batted first in all 3 Tests...Vaughan made the correct decision in the second Test but on this occasion the pitch being an uncertain quantity may have swayed him yo not bat first....but still a poor decision..
As I said repeatedly before, IN SL the Team winning the toss is stupid not to bat first...Australia pulled off a 3-0 whitewash easily mainly because they won three tosses and batted first in all 3 Tests...Vaughan made the correct decision in the second Test but on this occasion the pitch being an uncertain quantity may have swayed him yo not bat first....but still a poor decision..
Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
Reckon had Vaughan batted first Vaas, Chanaka and Maaalinga would've knocked us over TBH.
Did you not see how much the ball was moving? It may have been Galle in name, it was as good as Derby in May in nature. It wasn't Vaughan's fault, it was just dreadful bowling and execrably pathetic catching.
Did you not see how much the ball was moving? It may have been Galle in name, it was as good as Derby in May in nature. It wasn't Vaughan's fault, it was just dreadful bowling and execrably pathetic catching.
Basically. England's bowling performance was far too schizophrenic to pressure SL for any concerted period of time. That coupled with some dire work in the field and overall lack of intensity, explains why the game is at where it is right now. Had SL bowled first, Vaas et al wouldn't have bowled a great deal differently.
What are people’s feelings about Welegedara?
I've never seen him bowl before but liked what I saw. If he can add a few more toys to his armoury, I'd be inclined to pick him ahead of Front Foot Fernando every time. Admittedly, I was disappointed Sujeewa De Silva get a go in this test, but I hope Welegedaragets an extended run with the side - i.e. the up-coming ODI series against Australia.
Langeveldt
Soutie
he looked a bit flat to me, maybe it was the pitch.. People are already comparing him to Vaas, and I think the only similarity is the Left Arm-ness..
Don't get me wrong, it's his first test and he doesn't look bad, but I wasn't particularly excited by him..
Don't get me wrong, it's his first test and he doesn't look bad, but I wasn't particularly excited by him..
TT Boy
Hall of Fame Member
LOL.
Bopara is a throwback to the late 90s and England’s fascination with bits and pieces cricketers who sadly are not good enough in both disciplines to warrant test selection.
Langeveldt
Soutie
I bet his mum makes a mean chocolate roulade..
silentstriker
The Wheel is Forever
I don't understand how two SL batsmen can embarrass the English bowlers and then twenty minutes later, the same pitch causes England to fold like that?
WTH is going on?
WTH is going on?
Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
Yeah, little in common with Vaas other than the arm he bowls with. Given his First-Class economy-rate is poor TSTL, his accuracy today was impressive. Looked like he could get it down fairly heavily, too, which is always a plus, and pushed the speedster up towards 140kph. But it was alarming how little he swung the ball, and his only 2 wickets came from batsmen playing down the wrong line of straight balls.
Nonetheless, as my namesake says, many have gone far, far worse on Test deubts.