Tour of Sri Lanka

[Donsteppa]

At least we didn't lose any wickets when it was raining

[Chris B.]

SL take the new ball - bowling spin.

Boult somehow manages to top edge an attempted sweep so that the ball ends up inside his helmet grill!

[nzzp]

And that's all she wrote. All out for 249. Lakmal gets 4

[Rapido]

Shame, could be a golden opportunity blown, batting first here.

Very underdone batting unit though with the warm up game washout. So have an excuse.

Tail is looooong, though.

[Bovidae]

Southee looked good batting until he went for a wander.

We need a couple of early wickets while the ball is still new.

[mariner4life]

@Bovidae said in Tour of Sri Lanka:

We need a couple of early wickets while the ball is still new

innovative tactic!

[Chris B.]

Yeah - a mediocre effort after the openers got away to a decent enough start.

Sri Lanka going along quite well until Thirmanne's eyes light up at the sight of Ajaz and he dances down, has a hoick misses and stumped!

[Siam]

Patel is continuing to impress. Chucks it up and gets great drift - watch his lbw for that. Somerville looks limited and struggles to bowl 6 good ones. Santner's a fine limited overs bowler.

Broke a dangerous partnership on tea but need to get Matthews, one of world cricket's unsung guns.

At tea we lead by 106 runs, they're 3 down

Monsoon season will probably have the final say

[Siam]

Boult makes it 4 down first over after tea

By God the castle, brick thing in the background makes this venue one of the best around. Outstanding.

[Bovidae]

@Siam said in Tour of Sri Lanka:

By God the castle, brick thing in the background makes this venue one of the best around. Outstanding.

Looks to be the cheap seats too.

Initially I thought the people up there were tourists but most seem to be locals as they don't move.

[Siam]

Hate to harp, but this is some fine spin bowling. 5 wickets in 16.1 overs - pretty bloody handy. He's quite good to watch because he always looks likely, got Matthews with a jaffa

[Paekakboyz]

@Siam makes for great viewing! He's as dangerous as Santner is innocuous (in tests) 😁

[Chris B.]

Had them on the ropes for a while, but Lakmal and Dickwella are making this into a one innings shootout.

Thought Kane should have changed it up a bit more when he just persisted with bowling a long spell of Patel and Somerville.

[nzzp]

Well that is as ugly a shot from Jeet as you'll see.

8/1. Normal n service resumes

[Chris B.]

Jeez Kayne...

[Chris B.]

We're somewhat in the schtumm with some ordinary shots from Jeet, Kane and Rossco.

Need Tom and Henry to come to the party tonight!

[Chris B.]

F*ck you!

Got rid of Tom who scored all of our runs.

64 runs ahead and 6 wickets standing and I have nothing to say about that!

[Donsteppa]

Top order batting this test like they’re still in a Lords ‘hangover’ perhaps.

Heard before the test a theory that CdG would play as the second seamer and to lengthen the batting. Southee did nothing wrong with the ball, but we might have welcomed Colin’s batting at #7 after all...

[rotated]

Southee batting with genuine discipline today. If they can just nudge the lead onto 180-200 by some miracle anything can happen.

[Squirrel]

Good knock by Watling

Man he's a fighter