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***Official*** Sri Lanka in England and Ireland 2014

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Fuller Pilch

Hall of Fame Member
Dissector said:
Is this the first time DRS has changed the result of a test match ?

Also a disappointingly small crowd for Lords. Is it because it was Sri Lanka?
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When NZ beat Australia, the no 11 (Lyon) was given out LBW twice and escaped with reviews (although it looked very dubious - one looked like it was crashing into middle but the ball tracking made it appear to be missing leg), but then bracewell bowled him anyway.


Excellent performance by the English seamers, guts from Matthews and the tail (apart from Herath's foolish non-review). Tbh - great test match. I also guess Root deserves man of the match, but had England won I would've liked to see Anderson get it (he was almost Southeesque there:)) and had Matthews lasted to the very end I thinking he would've been deserving.

Last point - I wonder if Ballance now wishes he'd been dismissed for 80ish yesterday.
 
BeeGee

BeeGee

International Captain
I'm not really being critical because hindsight is 20/20, but I'm a long time hater of teams playing for personal milestones and I can't help wondering if England waiting for Root to reach his 200 before declaring may have hurt them here. Of course they may have batted longer in their second innings if they had declared earlier in the first, but personally I still don't like it.
 
grecian

grecian

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
I reckon Sri Lanka should go with Sanga as 'keeper, anything that knocks 30-an-innings of his batting is okay with me:ph34r:

I'm hoping they do go unchanged, in the end you can't judge Plunkers and the Beards bowling on this road, and obviously you need to give Robson a run.
 
YorksLanka

YorksLanka

International Debutant
Congrats to my team for hanging in (just) to secure the draw. We batted well to keep ourselves in this game following England's first innings and more rewardingly, our seamers bowled very well during England's second innings. Finally I was very happy with the character we showed today. Well played to England also and nice to see Yorkshire propping up England again:ph34r:..seriously , England's seamers were awesome today and I so glad that our tailenders managed to resist their advance( despite the s**t effort of reiffel who I feel had a very ordinary game for both sides.).. Onwards to Headingley and I am looking forward to being there on Sunday...
 
Stapel

Stapel

International Regular
Spark said:
It really is frightening how ****ing destructive Broad can be when he really, really wants to be
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I think it was Mike Atherton refering to Broad being like Pietersen, but as a bowler: thriving on situations like this.
 
Furball

Furball

Evil Scotsman
grecian said:
I certainly wouldn't mind seeing them banned, would put a stop to it. Yet I don't really see why the common-sense option of those overs actually being bowled it's "Sunny" in England until about 9 British Summer Time. Yet they traipsed off each day without the right overs being bowled.
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Haha indeed. It's the height of summer, light isn't going to be an issue until at least 9 o'clock, and as we saw at the Oval last summer, it's not an issue for batsmen anyway, you don't get to leave the field until all overs have been bowled. If that means you're in the field for 3 hours in the final session, then bowl your overs quicker.
 
Burgey

Burgey

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**** you Fox Sports, depriving us from seeing a great end to a test match.

Kudos to both sides here. Sounds a thoroughly epic finale.
 
stumpski

stumpski

International Captain
Dissector said:
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This is the 22nd time the team batting last has lost 9 wickets in a draw. Of those the last 11 have been since 2003 . Of those 11 England have been involved in 8, 4 each with the bat and ball.

This is the first time Sri Lanka have pulled it off becoming the 7th team to do it. Can you guess which of the top 8 teams has never done it?
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I don't recall West Indies doing it - for many years they were rarely in that sort of predicament - although they might have been on the receiving end once or twice.
 
King Pietersen

King Pietersen

International Captain
Such an awesome finish. Knew Broadeh would come good at the end. :ph34r: Shame we couldn't pull off the win, but what a final day. Looked all over at Tea! Hopefully we'll be able to finish the job in the second.
 
Stapel

Stapel

International Regular
Fuller Pilch said:
Last point - I wonder if Ballance now wishes he'd been dismissed for 80ish yesterday.
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With the benefit of hindsight...... I'm not too sure it would have helped England a lot if Ballance had gotten out (or if Cook had declared earlier). Sri Lanka were 164/3 at tea, needing 390 with 35 overs left. If they would have been 164/3 chasing 320 with 50 overs left, things would have looked different.
 
Furball

Furball

Evil Scotsman
stumpski said:
I don't recall West Indies doing it - for many years they were rarely in that sort of predicament - although they might have been on the receiving end once or twice.
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The West Indies did it at least once the last time England were out there.

I'm guessing New Zealand have never done it.
 
Dissector

Dissector

International Debutant
The list of games with 9 wickets/draw is in the link. The team which has never done it is South Africa. Surprised?:ph34r:
 
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