**Official** Sri Lanka in England / Scotland - 2011

[Furball]

Toby: "Tempting fate - but you just feel so calm as an England supporter with Trott and Cook at the crease. Has any player with over 5 tons got a better conversion rate than Trott? He's got more tons than 50s; I can't think of anybody else with that record."

Someone needs to point Toby from the cricinfo scorecard in the direction of Bradman's cricinfo profile.

 

[Prince EWS]

Trott scores too slowly etc etc.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Brilliant partnership by these two. Never known an English pair put so many big stands on in such a short space of time.

 

[Furball]

Holding is such a gun when he's criticising players.

Who the **** thought inviting Russel Arnold to commentate was a good idea?

 

[Spark]

Sound is off - what'd he say?

 

[Furball]

Sound is off - what'd he say?

Just a deadpan "what sort of fielding is that" when that misfield allowed Cook 2 runs.

 

[GIMH]

Bloody hell

 

[hang on]

hate to say this but god they are awful.

decent conditions for bowling but still going at 4.5 an over.

of course, cook and trott are batting well but still....come on.

 

[Spark]

Hmmm that's a surprise. Gone in the pursuit of quick runs I think.

 

[TopCat]

Evening all,

Well played Jonathon Trott. Trying to force the pace as England seem to be doing is bound to cause a few lost wickets. But a good innings from the No.3.

 

[hang on]

i will shut up

 

[NasserFan207]

Interesting to see how KP does here.

 

[Howe_zat]

Good bowling from Herath there, nice flight. Get the impression Trott wouldn't have been beaten if he weren't playing a shot every ball though.

I wouldn't have been surprised if Bell had been sent out here...

Nice 50 Cookster.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Nice entertaining knock by Trott, tricky little period for KP now with the SLA on. Can he beat his alleged problem and get a decent score.

Classy innings by Cook this, is there any player in the world in better nick at present?

 

[TopCat]

The bowling in this match, for the most part, by both teams has been rubbish.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

The bowling in this match, for the most part, by both teams has been rubbish.

Agree with that, Tremlett probably the pick though Finn has bowled more very good deliveries than anyone else, he has also bowled the most dross to level that off.

 

[Spark]

Swann easily the pick imo

 

[TopCat]

I really wish Arnold would stop talking for longer than 30 seconds. Jabber, jabber, jabber.

Bring back Benaud.

EDIT: Holding should stop encouraging him too.

 

[hazsa19]

Fed up of hearing this "if England want to be number 1 they need to give Sri Lanka a chance".

Utter nonsense. I don't remember Australia giving anyone a sniff, unless they had the series sealed.

We need to bat them out of the game and say, here you go, bat 40 overs for a draw.

In any case I think that gives more of a chance of victory. If their positive batsmen go into their shell they get in the wrong positions playing negatively they look all at sea.

If they have a chance they'll almost play it like an odi, and we don't want that!

 

[hazsa19]

It's entirely the umpires decision as to when they come off for bad light.

Trott was almost begging to go off.