Cricket Tragic Posted March 15, 2012 Posted March 15, 2012 Good performance from the English bowlers in the first warm-up. Panesar among the wickets again. http://www.espncricinfo.com/sri-lanka-v-england-2012/engine/current/match/536300.html Any early predictions for this series?
zep1706 Posted March 15, 2012 Posted March 15, 2012 England1-0, SL don't have the bowlers to trouble England even on turning tracks.
Stuge Posted March 15, 2012 Posted March 15, 2012 England1-0' date=' SL don't have the bowlers to trouble England even on turning tracks.[/quote'] lets see how ENG cope with mendis .
J P K Posted March 15, 2012 Posted March 15, 2012 srilankan players are drained out i think england will win it
India-KXIP fan Posted March 15, 2012 Posted March 15, 2012 My prediction is 0-0 draw with batsmen from both teams doing well.
Cricket Tragic Posted March 16, 2012 Author Posted March 16, 2012 Monty again outbowls Swan! Does not really matter because both wil play.
Cricket Tragic Posted March 16, 2012 Author Posted March 16, 2012 303/8 with Cook making 160 odd. Not a great batting performance.
Laaloo Posted March 16, 2012 Posted March 16, 2012 Respect!! Cook just keeps on piling on runs and runs :adore:
Cricket Tragic Posted March 17, 2012 Author Posted March 17, 2012 England win by an innings. Good bowling performance once again. 3 for Pussy, Finn and Swann.
CG Posted March 17, 2012 Posted March 17, 2012 england have the best chance ,but i feel they will screw up.
hari504504 Posted March 17, 2012 Posted March 17, 2012 Mendis and Herath to run through the English batting - they are as clueless against spin as we are against pace and bounce.
Cricket Tragic Posted March 17, 2012 Author Posted March 17, 2012 England to win 1-0. I'll go with that as well unless SL prepare some real turners which will bring their decent (but not outstanding) spinners into play.
saneindian Posted March 17, 2012 Posted March 17, 2012 SL will be tough to beat. Their batting now with Dilshan, Sanga, Mahela, Samara and Chandimal will be stronger. Bowling is weak but on turing tracks Herath will be tough to handle.
vvvslaxman Posted March 19, 2012 Posted March 19, 2012 England boil over as Sri Lankan Perera refuses to walk in Colombo http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/cricket/article-2116290/England-boil-defeating-Sri-Lankan-Board-XI.html England boil over as Sri Lankan Perera refuses to walk in Colombo By CHRIS POWER England opened their tour with a convincing victory by an innings and 15 runs against a Sri Lankan Board XI at the Premadasa Stadium. However, the match was overshadowed by an ugly incident in Saturday's afternoon session which saw captain Andrew Strauss and several of his players involved in a heated row with both umpires and opposition batsman Dilruwan Perera. Flashpoint: James Anderson lets Dilruwan Perera just how he feels It followed a passage of play which had seen Perera edge a James Anderson delivery to first slip. To the naked eye, the catch looked good as Strauss dived forward to scoop the ball up into his hands. Yet Perera, a 29-year-old off-spinner who has played four one-day internationals, insisted the ball had not carried and, after consultation between Sri Lankan umpires Ravindra Kottahachchi and Ravindra Wimalasiri, he was reprieved. It led to an unsavoury confrontation involving England's players, led by Strauss, Perera and both umpires, which threatened to boil over. Anderson later admitted a valuable lesson has been learned about cricket in the subcontinent, where suffocating humidity and slow wickets can often see tempers rise in direct correlation with the temperature. 'It was just frustrating,' he said. 'With Straussy being the honest upstanding citizen that he is, he wouldn't lie about something like that. You have to take his word on it and the other slip and keeper thought he'd taken it, too. 'Add the heat into it and it was a good lesson for us. Situations like that are going to be hard to deal with in the Test matches and we have to deal with them well. 'You're working very hard to take wickets, and seamers aren't going to bowl a huge amount of overs in a spell, so when you get someone out, it is frustrating to have it taken away. 'We could have handled it better but I'm sure it's something we'll talk about.' The argument, which took place with their opponents in a hopeless position on 63-7, shows how seriously England are taking these warm-up games before their two-Test series against Sri Lanka, which starts in Galle on Monday week. It is also evidence of the burning desire among England's players to set the record straight following their humiliating 3-0 Test series whitewash against Pakistan in the UAE. There were numerous positives to take from the Colombo game. The runs of Alastair Cook, whose unbeaten 163 allowed England to declare on 303-8 overnight, and wickets yesterday for a previously out-of-sorts Graeme Swann were two, while Anderson finished with match figures of 7-40 as the Sri Lankan Board XI were bowled out for just 119 in 56.4 strength-sapping overs
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