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Tom Mann Centuria

Another one gone........

Strumms

The flurry of runs at the end should be enough to see England win.

Sri Lanka have had some very mixed form in the limited overs format of late, last couple of years in fact, not great at chasing biggish/challenging totals... England have posted one... first six overs will be all telling..

Inquitus

Strumms wrote: »

The flurry of runs at the end should be enough to see England win.

Sri Lanka have had some very mixed form in the limited overs format of late, last couple of years in fact, not great at chasing biggish/challenging totals... England have posted one... first six overs will be all telling..

Its an achievable target, especially when batting second and knowing how hard you need to go, hopefully it's a closer game than the 1st 2!

Edit: Commentator's curse, 2nd wicket goes down immediately as I post! 23/2

Strumms

12.09 an over required now, game over. Morgan could bowl himself and Jonny Bairstow and still win

Inquitus

Strumms wrote: »

12.09 an over required now, game over. Morgan could bowl himself and Jonny Bairstow and still win

Indeed the lack of urgency of the Sri Lankan batsmen is hard to understand!

Inquitus

Great throw, out by the proverbial country mile!

Strumms

Indeed, WTF are the Sri Lanka batsmen at,, two wide balls left go through to the keeper... not really trying.

A real gulf in class.

Sri Lanka might struggle to score a hundred runs here. 64/6 now.

Inquitus

Strumms wrote: »

Indeed, WTF are the Sri Lanka batsmen at,, two wide balls left go through to the keeper... not really trying.

A real gulf in class.

Sri Lanka might struggle to score a hundred runs here. 64/6 now.

Agreed, men against boys!

Strumms

You don’t see many maidens in T20 cricket, especially the 14th over.

Inquitus

Strumms wrote: »

You don’t see many maidens in T20 cricket, especially the 14th over.

Another one down 64/8 off 14.5 overs

Inquitus

WICKET
B Fernando b Livingstone 20 (SL 88-9) 18.3 overs

Liam Livingstone gets revenge straight away.

Binura Fernando tries to heave him again, but it is the top-spinner from the Lancashire all-rounder and the ball crashes into middle stump.

Inquitus

Game over

Another complete mismatch to finish this most one-sided of series. At least we have the Euro's to give us some competitive sport on the TV Today. Well done to England, but Sri Lanka were just brutal, with both Bat, and Ball, and offered nothing to trouble England.

That said the England Test Team could be in for this sort of mauling in the upcoming Ashes series in dear auld Australia!

Strumms

Australia have won 9 out of the last 10 Ashes tests on their own soil I’m reading.... doesn’t bode well for England.

Gillespy

You say that but Australia were simply awful against a very weakened India. A lot of holes in their team, starting with the captain and everyone else other than Warner, Smith, Labuschagne, Cummins and Hazlewood. They usually are at their best for the Ashes but that India series should give England hope.

Strumms

Gillespy wrote: »

You say that but Australia were simply awful against a very weakened India. A lot of holes in their team, starting with the captain and everyone else other than Warner, Smith, Labuschagne, Cummins and Hazlewood. They usually are at their best for the Ashes but that India series should give England hope.

It should, true....

Paddy Power odds are

Australia 2/5

England 10/3

Draw 6/1

India vs Australia was 2-1 to India which India just scraped to victory... I think they chased down the Australian total with something like 16 balls left on day 5 to take the final test and series.

That should give England hope alright but their own record there recently won’t be really much to give them confidence...2011 was their last Ashes series win abroad...

Gillespy

India only needed to draw the series, they were doing that comfortable until Pant decided to win the game. After the 36 first test, India were the better team despite them losing so many players. Australia were full strength and at home. It was a terrible defeat and Paine is very lucky to be seeing another series.

Strumms

Gillespy wrote: »

India only needed to draw the series, they were doing that comfortable until Pant decided to win the game. After the 36 first test, India were the better team despite them losing so many players. Australia were full strength and at home. It was a terrible defeat and Paine is very lucky to be seeing another series.

Hugely lucky, in the aftermath of the Smith Saga...
Paine has a record of..

Won : 11
Lost : 8
Drawn : 4

He lost all 5 one day internationals he’s captained. Not a great record..

Could be post Smith and ball tampering they wanted a safe pair of hands and a reliable personality... you can bet what went down with Smith was probably indicative of a culture that existed around the team as a whole, they just needed a fall guy.

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England ladies going well, India will be lucky to score 200 off their 50...

Mysterypunter

Sri Lanka 185 all out, a 99 run partnership for the 4th wicket between Perera and Hasaranga and the rest were incompetent, including lots of comedy running

Beasty

Think the England lads are conscious of the 5pm ko for the Euros later on....

Strumms

Sri Lanka’s form in one day cricket is in the doldrums... this has 3-0 written all over it...

Beasty

England bat very deep, and even a team with 2 or 3 of their top stars missing are showing themselves across both white-ball formats to be a different class. Unsurprising though as England are top of the T20 rankings with Sri Lanka 8th, and in ODIs England are 4th but not very far adrift from #1, with Sri Lanka in 9th. I suspect England have been able to maintain form throughout the current pandemic much better than places like the sub-continent where Covid has been much more rampant

Strumms

England ladies going well enough against India... India batting and after 17 overs they are 77/3... two new batters at the crease.

Tom Mann Centuria

As the Guardian pointed out, Northampton born (to former Northants players) England bowlers took all the wickets in that innings :pac:

Strumms

4.84 required from the off... 2-0

Strumms

2-0 it ended...

Sri Lanka are muck to be fair... they did not post a competitive score, that can happen but the bowling has been just awful, short, wide and generally shït...

England will win with about 7 overs to spare, 8 wickets to spare...just not competitive by Sri Lanka...

MFPM

Good knock by Dhananjaya for 91 but just not a competitive score for SL. Nice to see Morgan in the runs, he needed a few.

WI and SA are in Twenty/20 action, five overs remaining SA need 58 to win, 11 an over, 4 wickets in hand - currently going at just over 7, this will be tight unless they up the rate. SA leading 2-1 in the series.

MFPM

Did I say it would be tight? Some decent bowling by the WI as SA forcing the run chase - SA need 41 from 12, 2-2 in the series, decider to come.

WI win by 21 runs.

byronbay2

Strumms wrote: »

2-0 it ended...

Sri Lanka are muck to be fair... they did not post a competitive score, that can happen but the bowling has been just awful, short, wide and generally shït...

England will win with about 7 overs to spare, 8 wickets to spare...just not competitive by Sri Lanka...

Just watched today's ODI and it was a walk in the park for England. Disappointing how low SL have sunk, for a long time they were a very good limited-overs side. Batting was poor (241 was a long way short of par) and bowling/fielding was awful.

Strumms

byronbay2 wrote: »

Just watched today's ODI and it was a walk in the park for England. Disappointing how low SL have sunk, for a long time they were a very good limited-overs side. Batting was poor (241 was a long way short of par) and bowling/fielding was awful.

Yep, not to make a competitive score with the bat is one thing but the fielding and dreadful bowling was really the nail in the coffin....

Watching the girls now, interesting opening, some good batting, one wicket a couple of lbw shouts and an almost stumping/run out. Only 4.2 overs gone.

Strumms

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e_rQYc2b5YI

SA vs West Indies live on YouTube now...