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

[LangleyburyCCPlayer]

Root now has the highest score of the English Test summer, and having reached 12250 Test runs, it also means that he is guaranteed to finish this series with an average of 50

 

[King Kane]

I mean so does Root. have you seen the openers he has played with post Cook?

Yeah that's true but your openers have generally been better than ours even post Cook., not many countries have good test openers these days though.

Even Australia are opening with Smith these days as they don't have a good enough test opener to replace Warner.

 

[ashley bach]

Gus Fring 31*(33) strike rate 93.93 @SillyCowCorner1

 

[Howe_zat]

He resembles a blend of Woakes and Root?

Basically what you get when you get an ai to generate a picture of an England cricketer.

 

[Himannv]

Root has been immense.

 

[Howe_zat]

Basically what you get when you get an ai to generate a picture of an England cricketer.

In the name of science i did this and it created this sort of knock-off Paul Collingwood

Spoiler

 

[LangleyburyCCPlayer]

Yeah that's true but your openers have generally been better than ours even post Cook., not many countries have good test openers these days though.

Even Australia are opening with Smith these days as they don't have a good enough test opener to replace Warner.

Our openers are usually good for a few runs, but not so good at sticking in long enough to get the shine off the ball!

 

[LangleyburyCCPlayer]

In the name of science i did this and it created this sort of knock-off Paul Collingwood

Spoiler

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I’ve seen that guy before, he plays for New Zealand

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Getting some quick overs before the (real) second new ball.

 

[The Brian Hardie Stance]

England's run rate inching towards 4 rpo.

 

[Howe_zat]

I was prepared for 280 all out when leaving work so this state of affairs is quite encouraging. Atkinson going above and beyond here and saving the top order a lot of grief if we can bat out the day

 

[King Kane]

Crawley and Duckett one of the great opening pairs IMO

In this day and age they look like Greenidge and Haynes, Wright and Edgar or Gooch and Atherton.

Good old fashioned test openers are rare to find these days, let alone good old fashioned test opening pairs.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Inconsistent bounce noticed.

 

[govinda indian fan]

Root is white tendulkar or sachin is brown root

 

[LangleyburyCCPlayer]

Fear not, Bazball fans, the run rate has surged above 4 again!

 

[Howe_zat]

Bat Gus Atkinson at #3?

 

[LangleyburyCCPlayer]

Bat Gus Atkinson at #3?

It worked for Moeen!

 

[King Kane]

Fear not, Bazball fans, the run rate has surged above 4 again!

Gus Atkinson saving the day by scoring at close to a run a ball after Root slowed England down with his sensible ton.

 

[Howe_zat]

Root's last 4 tests against Sri Lanka

228 & 1
186 & 11
42 & 62*
142*

672 runs and only 5 dismissals. Two of those were run outs as well. They must be utterly sick of the sight of him.

 

[The Brian Hardie Stance]

Going from a good to decent to sort of okay kind of day for SL.

New ball crucial.