England V Sri Lanka - First Test at Cardiff 26-30 May

[Panther_Daz]

Could be an innings defeat here for Sri Lanka...

 

[African Monkey]

Sri Lanka 207/4 at lunch. Samaraweera beginning to look a bit more comfortable at the crease despite being vulnerable to swing due to his reluctance to come on to the front foot.

 

[hineyrulz]

Very pleased that the openers didn't fall to the new ball in English conditions. Paranavitana seems to be in very good form, got ton's in both warm up games.

Pretty pissed off at Sri Lanka's team selection though, why they would have P.Jayawardene at number 6 is beyond me. There is 2 gun wicket keeper batsman in the squad in Kaushal Silva and Dinesh Chandimal who can handle 6. Jayawardene is the worst batsman of the lot by a country mile!

A couple of early wickets tonight and England will rip through probably.

Jayawardene must have heard you Daz :lol: Well it worked ;-)

 

[African Monkey]

Jayawardene must have heard you Daz :lol: Well it worked ;-)

:lol:

He looked really good out there from what I saw of him.

Sri Lanka got their breakthrough they desperately needed. However, I don't think that playing 2 spinners on this track will do too much to scare England's batting.

Oh well you can put your house on Herath dismissing Pietersen.

 

[Panther_Daz]

My criticism of Jayawardene was warranted He had a test average of 30 before that. We need to pick 6 batsman and Prasanna at 7. However it was a really good performance. Shame about Maharoof's dismissal because he is in decent form.

 

[African Monkey]

My criticism of Jayawardene was warranted He had a test average of 30 before that. We need to pick 6 batsman and Prasanna at 7. However it was a really good performance. Shame about Maharoof's dismissal because he is in decent form.

Yep agreed. Your tail is weak enough at the best of times and having another batsman in there would strengthen your lineup.

 

[Panther_Daz]

Mathews injury caused all of this uncertainty. He will be back for Australia's visit in August. There has not been many times where Sanga and Jayawardene have failed and Sri Lanka still manage 400. The in batting depth in the country is outstanding. There is a lot of pressure being applied on the incumbents.

 

[Panther_Daz]

The Cook and Trott show rolls on from the summer here...

 

[TheParraboy]

Cooky 129no overnight, lots of vacuuming done from Locky im sure..

 

[Sudhir]

Must make the Australian bowlers feel a little better, not even Dale Steyn could stop these two, the form their in. Faultless batting

Cook now with 17 Test tons, yet still only 26.

To put it in perspective, he's already just five short of the England record

 

[Panther_Daz]

Trott refuses to let that average of his drop under 60!

 

[African Monkey]

So much for county cricket form counting for anything lol. Trott shows why he is such a classy player.

 

[Sudhir]

Trott surely has ICC Cricketer of the Year in the bag?

An incredible run he's having, in both forms of the game

 

[African Monkey]

Trott surely has ICC Cricketer of the Year in the bag?

An incredible run he's having, in both forms of the game

Yep can't disagree there. He's been fantastic.

 

[Sudhir]

Rain :x

Think I'm right in saying that Sri Lanka's last 4 Tests have been washouts?

All 3 Tests against the Windies were drawn due to rain

Dreadful luck

 

[African Monkey]

Oh well you can put your house on Herath dismissing Pietersen.

:lol:

The guy has a phobia against left-arm spin.

 

[Patorick]

82.

All out.

WHAT?

 

[Sudhir]

All this without Anderson

England are the real deal

4 innings victories in 5 Tests :shock:

 

[Panther_Daz]

Could be an innings defeat here for Sri Lanka...

In all seriousness, England again show why their quest to be World Number 1 is a very realistic goal... Well played England.

 

[Twizzle]

I thought we were bad