ashley bach
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You can say it brings lots of runs and it's a normal scoring shot, but anytime you play a reverse sweep you're dicing with danger.
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***Official*** England vs Sri Lanka 21st August-10th September 2024
- Thread starter LangleyburyCCPlayer
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SillyCowCorner1
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centurymaker
Cricketer Of The Year
England were 3/80. But it still looked like England would get 400+
GIMH
Norwood's on Fire
Think it’s my favourite thing about this era. Mini-collapses remain regular but completely sub par first innings scores are pretty rare
LangleyburyCCPlayer
State Regular
England are in a decent enough position and I’m sure it’ll get trickier later on (I haven’t checked the forecast!) but is 400 even par? The Sri Lankan bowlers are game (though Kumara looks to have tired), but the pitch is doing nothing and 4 of the wickets have fallen to ugly slogs, if numbers 8 and 9 can put on the runs they have while looking pretty untroubled it doesn’t reflect well on those batting above them…
Hungry Llama
U19 Debutant
I wonder how many more tests before brooks average drops below 50?
LangleyburyCCPlayer
State Regular
He’s 199 runs ahead of the mark with 3 more innings to come this summer (where he’s averaged 45) with a winter in Pakistan (where absolutely blitzed the hilariously flat pitch at Rawalpindi last time out) and New Zealand where the pitches are pretty flat, and where he did well last time, I’d say he’ll stay above the mark for a while yet
Chin Music
State Vice-Captain
But there was plenty of danger of being bowled out for less than 300 as well. Sri Lanka have preyed successfully on the weakness of the top three, but they lacked the depth to trouble the middle order enough. The likes of Kumara looked all too weary by the end of play. The Sri Lanka batting lineup has depth so it is hard to know how this plays out but they should feel disappointed not to already be batting and have taken a not insignificant chunk out of the deficit they might have had.
MW1304
Cricketer Of The Year
Man I'm just so grateful to be experiencing the entirety of Root's career, hope he goes on for a while yet.
Also, getting Mitchell Johnson vibes from Atkinson's batting. Stays still and hits the ball so cleanly. Feel like Johnson underperformed a little relative to his talent, but a similar career for Atkinson would make him a great 9.
Also, getting Mitchell Johnson vibes from Atkinson's batting. Stays still and hits the ball so cleanly. Feel like Johnson underperformed a little relative to his talent, but a similar career for Atkinson would make him a great 9.
Red_Ink_Squid
Global Moderator
The cricviz folks were saying this is the lowest amount of swing for Lords they had on record, and very low for lateral seam movement too. Which fits with the feeling the England batsmen have gotten themselves out rather than the bowling forcing wickets.
LangleyburyCCPlayer
State Regular
Just hope he can sledge better than Johnson!
Red_Ink_Squid
Global Moderator
Fun start.
LangleyburyCCPlayer
State Regular
Phew!
flibbertyjibber
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Fun start to the day. Spudgun with another bad decision.
King Kane
International Regular
He's normally pretty good with his lbw calls but he's had a couple of dodgy calls so far in this test, he's either out of form or he doesn't like England.
SillyCowCorner1
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Come on Gus