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

[vic_orthdox]

Isn't it a bit of a concern that all the players have stood up at some point in the series, and yet it still ended in a loss? I mean, Cook, Bell, Broad and Anderson all have credit built up in the bank (Cook's deteriorating far quicker than the others'), while Robson, Ballance, Moeen, Plunkett and Jordan are all new faces and performed at some point.

That leaves Root, who was very good, and Prior, who was terrible.

The options basically become demolishing the core of the old side even further, and picking a presumably inconsistent youngster in their place, or persisting with the not-quite-as-good-as-they-once-were-but-experienced-customers for the sake of some stability in the team.

Two test series.

As bad as:
Peter Miller
‏@TheCricketGeek
On performances in this game the players that deserve to be dropped are the four that won't be. Cook, Prior, Broad and Anderson

I enjoyed Cabinet96's exchange with this knob following the tweet.

 

[Spikey]

yeah dont really get how you can call root good and prior terrible. they each did one good thing

 

[Burgey]

When does SL move onto the main part of the tour in Ireland?

 

[shrik]

Time to Alister cook to get back in form.....
India are here....They have some great record of getting back batsmen in form :P

 

[flibbertyjibber]

SL you barstewards, if you had done a proper job and got it finished before tea then Cook would be a goner but as we almost saved the game we are stuck with the chump for another series.

Not fair.

 

[Spikey]

http://www.cricketweb.net/forum/ashes-2013-2014/61595-england-post-ashes-13-14-a.html

 

[Athlai]

TLDR version

 

[Spikey]

they all picked KP. dumb****s

 

[a massive zebra]

Trainwreck from Buster Keaton's The General?

 

[the big bambino]

I was just viewing this series through cricinfo mind but I thought it was exciting. Whereas I'd normally pick up on the scores in a coffee break I got up every morning just to find out what happened over night after I went to bed as late as I dared just to keep track on the games. Congrats both teams and especially Lanka on their success. Their good bowling and Eng's bad batting deciding the series.

 

[GotSpin]

Cook forever, a replacement never. Ashes 2015.

 

[Cabinet96]

England haven't had a properly successful opener other than Cook (too early to judge Robson) since about 2009? Given we've had four I'd be pretty happy with a replacement never.

 

[Dan]

Compton.

 

[GotSpin]

Loving his captaincy as well

 

[Cabinet96]

Compton.

In the right context, the Yorkshire bandwagon meant he'd failed



Still bitter though.

 

[GIMH]

Strauss didn't retire until 2012?

 

[Maximas]

ICC news : England tumble to fifth in Test rankings | Cricket News | Cricinfo ICC Site | ESPN Cricinfo

Hmm, England in real danger of slipping further if Sri Lanka can knock off both SA and Pakistan (now ranked 3rd wtf) which will boost their ratings a fair bit

 

[hendrix]

that whole middle group is ridiculously close together. Great times for test cricket.

 

[smash84]

haha.....Pakistan at third

Obviously difficult to see how come

 

[Daemon]

Jarrod Kimber on Shaminda Eranga and Rangana Herath - the pearl and the bank clerk | Cricinfo Magazine | ESPN Cricinfo

Awesome article. Slightly on the emotional side but it really highlights just how great an achievement this win was. It's really sad how a lack of money and infrastructure holds so many potential gun players back all over the world.