***Official*** Sri Lanka in England

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Don't count your chickens before they hatch (or in our case, Ashes or 400-run totals)

 

[Pedro Delgado]

First time I've seen Malinga's action. Odd innit.

 

[wpdavid]

First time I've seen Malinga's action. Odd innit.

Almost roundarm if TMS are to be believed.

 

[Pedro Delgado]

Almost roundarm if TMS are to be believed.

..then the ball is released in front of the umpires tie. Very interesting.

 

[silentstriker]

Murali gets the wicket again. Its amazing how reliant SL is on him.

 

[Neil Pickup]

Strauss flunks Running Between the Wickets 101. Cook dropped by Jayawardene off Murali soon afterwards.

If Sri Lanka had another bowler, we'd have a game here.

 

[no1_gangsta_786]

Cook gone. LBW to Murali straight after hitting him for four.

 

[Jungle Jumbo]

I said this before in the first Test, but why shouldn't Bandara be playing for Sri Lanka? He is obviously a bit more potent than Kulasekara/Maharoof and by the looks of it, Malinga. Are they afraid to only have two mediocre seamers, rather than three?

I say drop Kulasekara and play Bandara.

 

[Sanz]

I say drop Kulasekara and play Bandara.

Isn't it too late to include Bandara now ?

 

[Anna]

Well that was an awesome day at Edgbaston! Having seen it chuck it down all week in Birmingham, you wouldn't have believed it would be so sunny today. Malinga's action is odd to say the least :S Trescothick's catching was great, Plunkett & Mahmood looked promising....all in all an awesome day with great people

 

[marc71178]

The odds on England winning just went down a little, as they continue to insist on picking the fastest rather than the best bowlers.

Didn't do too much harm did it?

 

[marc71178]

No, leave that until we're next in SA. The pre-match bs between him & Fatboy would be priceless.

Will he still be around by then - his record isn't that good.

 

[marc71178]

Henry Blofeld on form today.

Murali called for overstepping.

"A bowler of his pace, I expect he's barely ever been no-balled in his career"

 

[a massive zebra]

Didn't do too much harm did it?

Maybe not so far this match, but it almost certainly cost us a win in the last game.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Maybe not so far this match, but it almost certainly cost us a win in the last game.

Bowlers creating enough chances for 18 2nd innings wickets isn't good enough?

 

[luckyeddie]

Maybe not so far this match, but it almost certainly cost us a win in the last game.

Catches win matches - and we spurned about half a dozen in the second innings alone at Lord's. The bowlers did their job well enough I reckon.

 

[JASON]

Mahela wins the toss(for a change) and elects to bat.

Given that it had been raining in the Midlands for over a week and all and sundry predicting there was some juice in the wicket for the first few sessions , that certainly was a stupidest decision of all.

Mahela really puzzles me with his inability to even make a winning toss count !!

Either that or 2 successive scores of 500 plus on flat tracks made him too ****y and he made a rash decision to bat first buoyed on by an even dumber coach .

 

[JASON]

Jones is doing alright for himself in this series so far isn't he?

9 catches out of 24 wickets!

If England play SL more often in early Summer he will soon be rated the best wicket keeper in Test History !!

 

[JASON]

Go Sri Lanka!

They have gone !!

*gone and out of this Test even before the end of the second session *

 

[JASON]

Style.

It could still rain for 3 days straight and wash out the Test

or Mahroof could suddenly claim 17 wickets in half a session and rout England .

*I will continue to dream *