***Official***Match #25- England vs Sri Lanka- October 26th-Bengaluru(D/N)#BottomDwellers

[Red_Ink_Squid]

Srilanka will regret losing to Pakistan now . They had a serious chance of making to semi-finals.

Similarly, England are going to regret losing to New Zealand, Afghanistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka, India, Australia, Pakistan and possibly the Dutch.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Randomly comes back into the side, looks 10 kilos overweight, but still gets two wickets and runs out Root. #JustMathewsThings against England. Would probably have made a match winning ton if it was needed.

 

[OverratedSanity]

The hilarious thing is that you absolutely know that this exact same XI playing with more confidence could easily come out and blow every other side out of the water at their best. Shows how fine the margins are between dominance and, well, not.

Their bowling's got real issues but yeah the batting lineup should be doing so much better.

 

[OverratedSanity]

guys is buttler being meta with the "not defending anything" line because he knows they never won it?

You're on to something here.

 

[centurymaker]

The hilarious thing is that you absolutely know that this exact same XI playing with more confidence could easily come out and blow every other side out of the water at their best. Shows how fine the margins are between dominance and, well, not.

Not in India, but on harder/faster surfaces.

 

[BeeGee]

ENGLAND 2.0 will be launched today

Sit back and enjoy folks

I did enjoy. Thanks!

 

[h_hurricane]

Looks like England wanted to get a feel of the infamous Bengaluru traffic and played bad enough to be on the roads in the evening.

 

[Sunil1z]

ICC might rate this pitch as average pitch after rating Chennai pitch (IND vs Aus) and Ahmedabad ( IND vs PAK ) as average pitch.

 

[Silver Silva]

Srilanka will regret losing to Pakistan now . They had a serious chance of making to semi-finals.

Losing Chameera and Hasaranga before the tournament really hurt us ..If those two play with the way our batting has been firing, I think we add minimum 1 more win to our tally so far .

Also I don't think it's a coincidence that results improve with Shanaka out the team either..

We took a bit of gamble putting faith in Maheesha Pathirana and Dunith Wellalage in the beginning, it didn't pay off but the Madushanka selection most certainly did, overall the sentiment back home is not one of expectations that this team makes top 4 , but we did want to see signs of progress for the future and we have definitely seen that.

I think this is a very talented young group , who will be better for this experience. Maybe the next World Cup we can do something.

 

[wpdavid]

Spare a thought for Bangladesh, who must need therapy after losing to this shower.

 

[Sunil1z]

Losing Chameera and Hasaranga before the tournament really hurt us ..If those two play with the way our batting has been firing, I think we add minimum 1 more win to our tally so far .

Also I don't think it's a coincidence that results improve with Shanaka out the team either..

We took a bit of gamble putting faith in Maheesha Pathirana and Dunith Wellalage in the beginning, it didn't pay off but the Madushanka selection most certainly did, overall the sentiment back home is not one of expectations that this team makes top 4 , but we did want to see signs of progress for the future and we have definitely seen that.

I think this is a very talented young group , who will be better for this experience. Maybe the next World Cup we can do something.

SL is a very good young side . One very good pacer and one good spinner and they will be back to Top 4 side .

 

[number11]

Yeah, Lanka look very talented. Esp Mendis and the young seamers.
England are out, and after tomorrow's Pakistan - Saffers game, we'll pretty much know the last 4.

 

[Silver Silva]

Samarawickrama has had an outstanding tournament, he is so aesthetically pleasing to watch when in full flow, he's batted like prime Mahela Jayawardene at times in this WC.

 

[Gob]

This is easily the most embarrassing defense by a reigning champion in cricket I've ever seen.

Sri Lanka in 99 was pretty meek

 

[Gob]

Wtf happened to England though. Had them penciled in for the semis over anyone but team India

 

[Adorable Asshole]

Wtf happened to England though. Had them penciled in for the semis over anyone but team India

You were wrong as usual

 

[Andy19]

England at this world Cup are a compete joke

Even Afghanistan and Netherlands are better teams compared to England poms are Embarrassing mess.

 

[shortpitched713]

Sad that Sri Lanka would pick on such minnows like England. Really need to work on their sporting sense for such an occasion.

YES THIS POST IS IN JEST

 

[NZTailender]

Considering England's form this world cup this doesn't really feel like an upset, not does it seem like a classy thing to revel in one sides continued humiliation by posting a meme at their expense...

 

[ankitj]

The hilarious thing is that you absolutely know that this exact same XI playing with more confidence could easily come out and blow every other side out of the water at their best. Shows how fine the margins are between dominance and, well, not.

Surely there are cricketing reasons that explain their failures more than "lack of confidence". In any case, confidence hasn't been an issue with English side for about 5 years.