Sri Lanka tour of England 2021

The tour kicks off tonight & tomorrow with back to back T20I D/N matches from Cardiff (18.30) & the 3rd & final match on Saturday from Southampton (14.30).
A 3 game ODI series follows, starting at Durham on Tuesday 29 (11.00), then a D/N fixture at the Oval on Thursday 2 July (13.00), & the final match on Sunday 4 July (11.00) from Bristol.

think it will be good to get a win or two so we can go into series with India with a bit of confidence.

T20I Squad
Morgan ©
Roy
Bairstow
Malan
Buttler
Livingstone
Billings
M Ali
S Curran
T Curran
L Dawson
Woakes
Willey
Jordan
Rashid
Wood

England beat Sri Lanka by 8 wickets in the 1st T20I. Buttler was awarded the Man of the match for his 68 not out.

2nd T20I, Sri Lanka won the toss & have elected to bat. Dickwella & Binura Fernanda comes in, with Dhananjaya De Siva & Pradeep out. For England, Woakes is rested & Buttler has a slight injury. Willey & Billings come in. Billing, Bairstow will keep & open.

SL winning the toss is the worse outcome.

At 21-2 off 5 overs it's looking like a repeat of last night.

England batting 1st could have posted a big number

I only found out today that this is on BBC2. Is this something new as I thought it was many years since the BBC televised international cricket?

^^ Yes it's new. Including todays match, 4 live England T20I & up 18 live matches from the Hundred competition.

England take the series with a match still to play, after a 5 wicket win which was rain affected & required a revised DLS target.
Sri Lanka have come into the series with a set plan to bat first, which they believe is their strength. from what I've seen so far their bowling was decent in the first match & improved further today.
England's bowling & fielding where impressive, their batting less so, until Livingstone & Billings steadied the ship.

(24-06-2021 21:33 )aaron Wrote:  I thought it was many years since the BBC televised international cricket?

Yes the last time was 1999.