England trail Sri Lanka by 111 runs with 6 wickets remaining
Root gone for 42
England trail Sri Lanka by 111 runs with 6 wickets remaining
Root gone for 42
Brook gets another 50
Tea - Eng 176-4
187-5
Brook gone 54
Jayasuriya pitched on leg took top of off, huge unexpected turn
Woakes in
I normally reply Woakes out to that statement
Bad Light - England lead Sri Lanka by 23 runs with 4 wickets remaining
Woakes added 25. Which is more than Pope and Duckett did combined
Ton for Jamie Smith. Well deserved
304-6 68 lead
Atkinson snicks down legside next ball for 20 valuable runs
304-7
Smith falls for 111
Mark Wood on the charge! 348-8. From the BBC:
"Strap yourselves in, people!
Mark Wood gets a short ball from Asitha Fernando and hooks it into the stands!
To finish off the extraordinary sequence, it’s caught in the crowd ONE-HANDED by a bloke holding a pint in the other.
Take a bow, sir."
And then out. Wood 22. Eng 348-9
Catch of the seasonin the crowd as Wood lets rip
One handed holding a pint epic.
347-8
Lead 111 and growing fast after they took new ball
Wood gone 22 off not many
England’s # 10 playing ramp shits.
Game’s gone
So has Potts next ball 358 all out 122 lead
Woakes
2nd ball.
Opener leaves it
Bowled.
0-1
4-2 1.5 overs
1 wicket an over sounds good to me.
Sri Lanka 10-2 at lunch 112 behind
When the queue for the ferry narrowly defeats your sphincter control.
Chandimal in hospital after a whack on his thumb from Wood.
Da Silva gets a short ball from Potts that puffs up dust doesn’t bounce & is LBW to Potts
95-4
This isn’t a Test Match quality strip, shouldn’t be doing this shit until day 5
It’s Manchester innit. Normal stuff with the tropical weather
Tea Sri Lanka trail England by 15 runs with 6 wickets remaining