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***Official*** Sri Lanka in England and Ireland 2014
- Thread starter Maximas
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wpdavid
Hall of Fame Member
Always great when someone makes his first test match 100. Doubly so given the situation and then the way he reached three figures.
Luckily I missed the afternoon collapse, so I don't know how the pitch changed from a turgid road to something more interesting. Or whether it swung under the cloud cover. Or whether England just did what the do best and collapsed like a pack of cards.
Tomorrow should now be quite a day's cricket. Perhaps our openers can show up and do their job at the start of the SL innings.
Luckily I missed the afternoon collapse, so I don't know how the pitch changed from a turgid road to something more interesting. Or whether it swung under the cloud cover. Or whether England just did what the do best and collapsed like a pack of cards.
Tomorrow should now be quite a day's cricket. Perhaps our openers can show up and do their job at the start of the SL innings.
YorksLanka
International Debutant
just finished watching highlights and must say, well done Ballance, very good ton..also follwoing on from previuos posts about the jordan bouncer to pradeep, i noticed in the highlights that CJ actually checked to see if pradeep was ok both at the time and as they walked off so certainly nothing malicious in it..
i was impressed with our "county line up" bowlers too, did a decent job...also forgot, congrats to Angelo on a great first ton at Lords, hopefully the first of many more..
i was impressed with our "county line up" bowlers too, did a decent job...also forgot, congrats to Angelo on a great first ton at Lords, hopefully the first of many more..
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hendrix
Hall of Fame Member
umm why not?
grecian
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
It's quite clear Shri has travelled in a time-machine back to the 1970s when bowlers didn't do that. I thought it was obvious.
Maximas
Cricketer Of The Year
Good to see Eranga come good, I thought he might enjoy English conditions, Herath is all class as usual. Bit of a shame we couldn't press on and bowl England out with a lead of under 300 but once again their batting depth thwarted us, Ballance played rather well too. I don't think we'll go near the target, but I'm hoping we get a rather dull final day as we bat out and lose 4 or 5 wickets at most.
superkingdave
Hall of Fame Member
Good to see 'lose to win' got some more airtime today
King Pietersen
International Captain
Warne and Botham spend half their time talking about negative field placements/bowling, and the other half talking about other sports. Won't be long till Botham brings up S****horpe. Terrible combination.
King Pietersen
International Captain
He's really good to watch. Lovely flowing bat, good on the drive, just needs to stop falling across his stumps to the in-swinger. Looks a good player though.
hendrix
Hall of Fame Member
yeah. He's been out LBW a couple of times to the inswinger. Southee got him - which of course then makes him vulnerable to the one going across him too.
Something that can be fixed.
Anyway, Kaushal Silva needs to start pulling those short balls. Honestly, they're long hops. Rubbish bowling - I guess he's safer if he just lets them bowl it.
King Pietersen
International Captain
Jinxed him. Good start for England, needed an early wicket. Sanga and Mahela obviously the big wickets though, they're the only chance Sri Lanka have.