Sri Lanka vs England 2012

[Cricket Tragic]

the curator has said the first team to bat on the galle pitch will definitely score 400+. the pitch was relaid after the dustbowl v AUS raised questions.

Oh ****.

[indiaregulator]

Matt Prior is England's only hope to score big runs on turners, the rest are as incompetent as they come.

Cook? Trott? Pietersen? Strauss?

[Square Drive]

I am not sure what pitch Asian minnows are going to produce... Hundreds are going to rain from Kooks bat... All the way captain Cook :aha: KP brings the form from Dubail.....

:(( :finger:

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Few scenes from the last Eng test at Galle, Malinga searing throat ball gets Pietersen

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We have played three semers in this match. England fans watch from the Dutch Fort in 2008 and may do the same again this year Hopefully they'll prepare a sporty track this time around as well. Otherwise if it's a slow-low turner, we will be in some trouble.. Last Australia test match for example.. :((

[Square Drive]

But the thing is now we have only one bowler left (Welagedera) from the previous England test at Galle.. others (Vaas, Mali, Murali) have gone.. :(( Also I remember those days we enjoyed great broadband connections, very fast and reliable, unlike now.. :facepalm:

[Old guy]

umm england have swann,panesar..overall good attack for conditions kp,cook looked in good form so it will be a close series ..

[Rick James]

:hysterical: Case of being stiff up their ass, been like this since their Ashes win. It's more like being the honest upstanding hooligans like their football counterparts. English players general on-field conduct has been rather thuggish in recent games.

Nope. the lungan players are known cheats. the worst kind of cheats too. - what about sangakkara cheating at wc final toss and randivs no ball? the lungans are the worst kind of cheats. devious, cunning and slimy.

[Rick James]

15 days of torture.....i agree. watching cricket in sri lanka is a torture. the crowd basically lack cricket knowledge. most of them go in to have a drink and dance with other boys. lungan boys are quite queer that way.

[cameron_black]

15 days of torture.....i agree. watching cricket in sri lanka is a torture. the crowd basically lack cricket knowledge. most of them go in to have a drink and dance with other boys. lungan boys are quite queer that way.

your only business in this forum is to curse sri lankans it seems. got ass raped by one by any chance?

[Magneto]

Still supporting Sri Lanka

[Magneto]

But the thing is now we have only one bowler left (Welagedera) from the previous England test at Galle.. others (Vaas, Mali, Murali) have gone.. :(( Also I remember those days we enjoyed great broadband connections, very fast and reliable, unlike now.. :facepalm:

What happened to your broadband connections?

[deathmonger]

What happened to your broadband connections?

wires got destroyed in the war.

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Anderson to beat Botham - Vaughan Former captain Michael Vaughan says James Anderson will beat Sir Ian Botham's record to become England's highest Test wicket-taker. More...

[adi B]

who cares... more flat tracks

[Old guy]

B->

[Cricket Tragic]

What happened to the ball tampering news? :hmmm:

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Batsmen let bowlers down - Bell Ian Bell believes he and his fellow England batsmen have let the bowlers down too often in recent matches. More...

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Forget the mojo, these English batsmen need to rediscover their tempo More... Forget the mojo, these English batsmen need to rediscover their tempo By LAWRENCE BOOTH 27 March 2012 We are all experts now that England are Not Very Good At Test Cricket again. Is it technique? Is it temperament? The heat, perhaps? Or the prevailing wind on the Sri Lankan coast? Commentating on Test Match Special, Michael Vaughan seemed to come closest. õhey haven't found the right tempo, he said. It was the kind of comment only an ex-pro could have made instinctive and knowing. But he was right: ever since they arrived in the UAE in January, England's Test batsmen have been searching for their blessed tempo. Tempo was what Mahela Jayawardene batted with (as well as class, elegance, daring and a bit of luck). Tempo is the magic ingredient that, when located, makes a batsman look unrushed and at home. All the best batsmen have it. And right now, England manifestly do not. Nightmare start: Alastair Cook goes for a duck to the bowling of Suranga Lakmal in Galle Their lack of tempo today was evident not merely in the ways in which they contrived to get out a chamber of horrors to conjure up so many winters past. It was there, too, amid the stuff in between. Take Jayawardene, who faced 315 balls and calmly collected 51 singles. That equates to roughly one single per over, which is the very definition of ticking-over when you throw in the occasional two, three or four. England, by contrast, managed 28 singles between them in 46.4 overs. A large proportion of their runs came in fours (124 out of 193), while only Andrew Strauss and Jimmy Anderson managed a two. In other words, England were mainly reduced to either hitting or blocking, the exception being Ian Bell, who kept feathering the seamers to third man. (Turns out he was never out of form at all: he just needed to get away from Saeed Ajmal.) Another one down: Rangana Herath successfully appeals for lbw against Matt Prior And that is what is meant by tempo the ability to assess a situation, a pitch, a bowling attack, and bat accordingly. Not, as England were doing, by numbers. The cherished positives were few and far between as they slumped to their fifth sub-200 total in seven Test innings this winner. Strauss came close to a tempo of sorts, hitting five singles, two twos, three threes and two fours, but he keeps having brainstorms in the 20s and 30s, which is not a good look for an experienced Test opener. Bell looked sublime before getting bogged down with the lower order (not a mistake Jayawardene made). The last four clumped merrily. But ever since England over-attacked on the first morning of the Pakistan series they then over-defended when chasing 145 in Abu Dhabi they have been caught in a batting no-manÃÔ land that has merely earned the derision of those already furious at their elevation to No 1. Struggles: England captain Andrew Strauss again failed to dominate with the bat In that respect, the 4-0 one-day win against Pakistan was the reddest of herrings. One-day cricket presents fewer problems to the batsman struggling against spin: there are fewer men round the bat, and on a good day a Saeed Ajmal can be seen off. In Tests, they keep on coming, and England are yet to work out a method of tackling even an honest slow left-armer such as Rangana Herath. Of the six batsmen he dismissed today, only Bell could truly be said to have been got out. The rest gave it away. Lessons can take time to absorb. But England's rate of progress against spinners in Asia appears glacial. In a country as warm as this, there can be only one outcome.

[Sir john]

ohh really? :peter:

[jairamesh]

But ever since England over-attacked on the first morning of the Pakistan series they then over-defended when chasing 145 in Abu Dhabi they have been caught in a batting no-manÃÔ land that has merely earned the derision of those already furious at their elevation to No 1.

:hysterical: talk about insecurity!