**Official** Sri Lanka in England and Ireland 2016

[91Jmay]

Good bowling from Sri Lankans rewarded. Would have taken 320 before play, would snap your hand off for it now.

 

[The Battlers Prince]

It's only 3 down, but SL would have to be happy with Cook and a Root out

 

[StephenZA]

Good morning for SL after a solid start by Eng.

Best thing for me is to have test cricket back on.... what does the weather look like for the afternoon session?

 

[91Jmay]

Should be ok for most of today I think, might get the odd shower.

 

[Adders]

Yeah, certainly sounds like a bowl first day.........but **** I'm itching to see Ali Cook punch out 36 runs, so I wont be too disappointed if we lose the toss tbh.

Really wish I hadn't said that.......

 

[OverratedSanity]

Strange times for sri lanka. I really rate Eranga and Chameera, Mathews is good for a 3rd seamer and while I haven't seen Shanaka at all, it looks like he's bowled well. Not often you have several decent lankan pacers but seemingly no good young batsmen coming though.

 

[StephenZA]

Some more good bowling from SL....

 

[Gnske]

Made a mince of that shot

If that's going to be the theme of the day Stokes won't be out there long (guaranteed to be now)

 

[StephenZA]

... or he scores 200... still sore about that one.

 

[vic_orthdox]

Great start from Stokes.

 

[vic_orthdox]

Mahela just talked about a plan when he nearly got caught on the leg side before.

 

[Pratters]

Gonners.

 

[StephenZA]

That is so bad from Stokes...

Eng trying to negate the rain factor and complete the game in 2 days?

 

[Spark]

That's not good batting.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Absolutely crap from England.

 

[91Jmay]

4 wickets, 4 nicks to loose drives. Very, very poor. Good bowling though, kept it nice and full even after we got off to solid start.

 

[YorksLanka]

Yorkshire to the rescue...poor dismissal from stokes there tbh..

 

[Pratters]

Some more good bowling from SL....

It's good bowling and tricky but not impossible to negotiate with a bit more defense. Too many shots from England today.

 

[StephenZA]

It's good bowling and tricky but not impossible to negotiate with a bit more defense. Too many shots from England today.

Oh yes. Eng have been pretty loose overall. But think SL have bowled to good simple plans well.

 

[wpdavid]

One of these gone and we're looking at sub-150, aren't we. Not the smartest start to a series that you'll ever see.