England in Sri Lanka, 2018

[jbswagger]

First ODI has just started.

[Gargamel]

Good work - I was just coming over to open a thread.

Rain stopped play ....

Key bit of world cup build up

England 1 Jason Roy, 2 Jonny Bairstow, 3 Joe Root, 4 Eoin Morgan (capt), 5 Ben Stokes, 6 Jos Buttler (w), 7 Moeen Ali, 8 Chris Woakes, 9 Adil Rashid, 10 Liam Dawson, 11 Olly Stone

No place for Hales ! Crazy.

YJB was st out of form in the tests after his finger was hurt. Let's hope he re discovers batting in the ODI's

[jbswagger]

Match abandoned in the end.

Will they use the reserve day on Sunday?

[Gargamel]

jbswagger said:

Match abandoned in the end.

Will they use the reserve day on Sunday?

I think I read they only kept reserve days for matches 2 and 5 ... which seemed odd.

[thegreenhell]

Malinga has one ugly bowling action, but very effective.

[thegreenhell]

I'm not convinced by the Woakes DRS decision. The ball appeared to be heading down the leg side, but on ball tracking it turned back into the stumps on a completely different trajectory after pitching. Ball tracking showed it hitting the pad in a completely different place. It looked very odd.

[jbswagger]

Rain delays start of 3rd ODI.

[Leicester Loyal]

jbswagger said:

Rain delays start of 3rd ODI.

FFS, I wanted to watch some before my shift this afternoon aswell.

[Gargamel]

It was a hard series to love before the rain washed out two of the fixtures.

Players must be super fed up. Long way to go to look at the covers getting wetter.

[jbswagger]

21 overs a side coming.

[Gargamel]

S/L at 7.3 an over, that’s a decent score. We should still put this away though.

[jbswagger]

England need 254 to win in 4th ODI.

[Leicester Loyal]

I know we've fielded a weakened side and the batting conditions are good atm, but the fielding and bowling has been pretty poor so far in the 5th ODI. I can't believe Curran dropped that catch earlier.

[jbswagger]

England 128-7, need another 238 runs.

[jbswagger]

Make that 132-8.

[jbswagger]

First test has started.

[Gargamel]

Where are we finding these players

Woakes, Stokes and now Foakes

Its getting out of hand.

Also - st score, why can't we make 400+ first dig.

[Gargamel]

Part two of that

How many times.... The Beard is NOT a Three !

fk me, where do I apply for a selectors job.

[Gargamel]

103 - 5

to

300 - 7

Our middle order digs us out again.

[type-r]

Stokes is such an over-rated piece of tosh.

Might be good in the field but has just been very average batting and bowling since and actually before Bristol.