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RE: England vs Sri Lanka 2014 - lovebabes56 - 15-06-2014 08:13
Looks like there is only going to be one result possible
RE: England vs Sri Lanka 2014 - Billy_Nomates - 15-06-2014 12:16
^^^^^^^^^^
A draw.
England find themselves being presented with an age old problem, namely, the inability to find a worthy test match spin bowler. Moeen Ali is currently the main spinner - but surely he's predominately a batsmen who is an occasional spin bowler?
RE: England vs Sri Lanka 2014 - Charlemagne - 15-06-2014 13:25
Sri Lanka finally all out for 453.
England are chasing quick runs and are 27-0 at lunch.. 149 ahead.
I wonder where the forum's cricket correspondent has gone. A Yorkie get a double hundred and he fails to comment
RE: England vs Sri Lanka 2014 - straw man - 16-06-2014 10:38
I'm assuming that England will declare overnight and set Sri Lanka 390 to win, as they are 267/8 with Ballance 104 not out, reaching his century in the final over of the day. But could England have declared earlier?
RE: England vs Sri Lanka 2014 - Charlemagne - 16-06-2014 10:47
Cooke obviously thinks that getting Balance a hundred is far more important than winning the match..
He should have 30 mins at the Sri Lankan openers last night
RE: England vs Sri Lanka 2014 - Charlemagne - 16-06-2014 22:33
Sri Lanka down to their last wicket pair at the close of play...
How Cooke must have wished that he'd declared and had the Sri Lankans batting last night..
RE: England vs Sri Lanka 2014 - straw man - 17-06-2014 01:28
A very dramatic end to the match as England thought they had won, only to see Sri Lanka's last man signal for a DRS review. After seeing what happened there, how can anyone not see the value of the DRS?
RE: England vs Sri Lanka 2014 - Billy_Nomates - 17-06-2014 14:36
^^^^^^
Without the use of DRS England would have won - albeit controversially.
As usual on the last session of the last day of the five day test match a sparse crowd in attendance watched a very close finish.
RE: England vs Sri Lanka 2014 - jimmyt73 - 17-06-2014 21:35
I know they didnt win,but for a newly revamped team they did ok,maybe Cook should have declared earlier but on what was a fairly flat pitch which offered very little seam movement and no specialist spinner they did well to get 19 wickets in the match,also good to see Root get a double century,Ballance getting a century which gave England a shot at winning the game in the first place,im now looking forward to Friday when hopefully they can take the positives from this game and win the series.
RE: England vs Sri Lanka 2014 - aussie carl - 19-06-2014 14:50
I think Cook's declaration was OK. Giving Sri Lanka half an hour's batting on the 4th day would have meant giving them a reachable target. The real problem was that in a match which went down to the last ball there were 17 overs left unbowled due to slow over rates.