Lillian Thomson
Hall of Fame Member
Yeah. Well played England in this series.
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***Official*** England in Sri Lanka
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Lillian Thomson
Hall of Fame Member
I get the impression that the CricInfo text commentator is not a great fan of Cook.
91.6 Welegedara to Cook, no run, ugly stroke back to the bowler
91.5 Welegedara to Cook, no run, no feet movement and he squirts it out to cover
91.4 Welegedara to Cook, no run, edged just short of second slip. I say edge, he did guide it more than edge it...but it was a loose stroke and he played it away from his body (as he so often does)
91.6 Welegedara to Cook, no run, ugly stroke back to the bowler
91.5 Welegedara to Cook, no run, no feet movement and he squirts it out to cover
91.4 Welegedara to Cook, no run, edged just short of second slip. I say edge, he did guide it more than edge it...but it was a loose stroke and he played it away from his body (as he so often does)
stumpski
International Captain
I hardly think Jayawardene is about to be replaced, as Sri Lanka go to # 2 - or # 3 if they somehow fail to win this. Cook gone, having been missed the ball before - now it's a question of trying to hold out until the light fails. About 90 minutes, would you say?
Jono
Virat Kohli (c)
What the ****? Time for a change in captaincy? SL are about to go equal second best in the test rankings with India and South Africa, and if they win this they go outright second.
They have drawn in England, drawn in NZ, beaten SA and beaten Eng at home.
You want to remove Mahela from captaincy? Ridiculous.
They have drawn in England, drawn in NZ, beaten SA and beaten Eng at home.
You want to remove Mahela from captaincy? Ridiculous.
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Fiery
Banned
And with that, surely England's chances of saving the game
Perm
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
My thoughts exactly. There is no need whatsoever to replace Mahela Jayawardene, especially when you consider how many runs he is churning out, averaging 67.75 with the leadership responsibility.
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Jono
Virat Kohli (c)
Nah its raining atm. England should get away with this one, despite their pathetic display.
Gun innings from Cook though.
This was a home series ...and SL like India have this great reputation of beating teams at home...while getting thumped overseas.
They got thumped worse than they expected in both Tests in Australia. At home V England in the last 2 Tests their ineptitiude to drive home a win is pathetic...Now thats a worrying sign -because previously they were able to do that and it just means now more than ever they are struggling to win even at home...and that's new and therefore worrying..
And the poor Captaincy IMO was definitely at fault in the 2nd Test.
Goughy
Hall of Fame Member
I expect he will. All rather depressing really
Migara
International Coach
There's a question mark or two, but captaincy was generally good. The way he pressurised Cook and Pietersen today was classcial. Pietersen finally cracked undfer pressure and got out. Wet dreams of Pietersen being a super star has well and truely smashed in this series. Pitches old fashioned, spin at Kandy, batting pitch at SSC and a seaming wicket with good pace at Galle. Finally when KP was put on helpful tracks for the bowlers he succumbed to them.
Migara
International Coach
Excuse me, except for Aussie series, I could not remember any recent series they got smashed. Last English tour ws 1-1, New Zealand tour was 1-1, only place where they flopped was in India, even that was not a walk over for the Indians.
ohtani's jacket
State Vice-Captain
C'mon, it rained so much.
BoyBrumby
Englishman
Mainly, yeah. The trouble is that on the rare occasions the bowlers fire (as in the first test when we dismissed SL for 188 when they'd opted to bat) the batsmen don't back them up either. In fact it was only due to the efforts of the lower order we had any kind of a lead to play with at all.
Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
I was greatful the first time they showed them, it helped me with my report.Sky now showing 'highlights' of England's first innings, for anyone (Australians?) who wants to see it one more time.
Either way, one of the most unjust escapes with a draw I've ever seen this, can't think of one this bad that involved England since 1990 and Trinidad (when it was England who were denied). This has been a pathetic performance from England, mostly in the field but the first-innings batting wasn't flash on the parts of Cook (calling and running, costing Bell) and Collingwood. Better in the second, of course, but would probably only have taken another 15 overs and this game'd have had a result.
Only 275 overs were bowled. Really, the day when rain cannot force draws like this can't come soon enough. If a Test is to be drawn, I want it to be 450 overs' worth of draw.
Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
You know, it's interesting, consensus was that England were awful in the first-innings, but they weren't really. Could have been better, sure - awful, certainly not.
Vaughan got a pearler, anyone seriously contending that it was a large misjudgement doesn't know a thing about cricket really. To say Vaughan made a large misjudgement is doing a disgraceful discredit to a magnificent bit of bowling. We're talking about a ball that pitched outside off, from a left-arm-over angle, and would have hit middle.
Cook got another superb ball, though he was at fault for Bell's run-out.
Pietersen got an even more unplayable one than either of the last 2.
Prior got one that kept exceptionally low. No batsman in history would have tried to play that on the front-foot unless they were exceptionally poor.
Really, it's only the selection of an incredibly long tail (always something that's made me wince) and the nonsense of Bopara being picked over Shah, plus Collingwood's poor stroke and Cook's poor calling, that caused that collapse.
Had Prasanna Jayawardene caught Cook on 53 or whatever it was in the second-innings, meanwhile, it'd be interesting to see what'd have happened. For starters, there'd almost certainly have been no English century this series.
Vaughan got a pearler, anyone seriously contending that it was a large misjudgement doesn't know a thing about cricket really. To say Vaughan made a large misjudgement is doing a disgraceful discredit to a magnificent bit of bowling. We're talking about a ball that pitched outside off, from a left-arm-over angle, and would have hit middle.
Cook got another superb ball, though he was at fault for Bell's run-out.
Pietersen got an even more unplayable one than either of the last 2.
Prior got one that kept exceptionally low. No batsman in history would have tried to play that on the front-foot unless they were exceptionally poor.
Really, it's only the selection of an incredibly long tail (always something that's made me wince) and the nonsense of Bopara being picked over Shah, plus Collingwood's poor stroke and Cook's poor calling, that caused that collapse.
Had Prasanna Jayawardene caught Cook on 53 or whatever it was in the second-innings, meanwhile, it'd be interesting to see what'd have happened. For starters, there'd almost certainly have been no English century this series.