🏏 :engerland: England (and :walesisntit: Wales) Cricket 2026

Rain stopped play

ENGLAND WIN BY SIX WICKETS

The players are shaking hands up in the dressing rooms. England have won by six wickets under DLS.

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Great country to visit.

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Oh great way to end a career…

FFS

Brook admits lying about the nightclub incident

2nd T20i

Sri Lanka batting, 35-0 after 2 overs.

Curran 14 runs
Archer 21 runs

Jacks in for spin now

Chucking pies to get SL into form.
Crazy when you have a squad to get mstch ready not to change round

Plus couldnt get a stable stream so watching VAR have a mare at Utd to gift them a goal with a decision they shouldn’t have made

England have dropped six of the ten catching opportunities created by Jofra Archer since the start of the Ashes - a catch success rate of just 40%.

By comparison, the rest of England’s bowlers have a combined 81% catch success.

39-2 off 5 Bethell gone

Rain
Losing on Duckworth Lewis

Play to resume at 17:10 GMTpublished at 17:07 GMT

17:07 GMT

Eng 57-2 (7.2 overs)

You were right, Tim - we will get back on!

Play is going to resume shortly, with England now chasing a revised of target of 168 (it was previously 190) from 17 overs.

That means they’ll need to score 111 from 58 balls - that’s a fair old rate.

Quick restart but Buttler gone ct in the deep

81-3 87 off 47 needed

51 off 5 overs

W 6 6 scoop out
Brook 36 off 12

38 off 27 needed

Relaxed 17 off the over

19 off 3 overs 6 wickets in hand

50 off 29 for Banton

11 off 2 overs to win

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England win in final over

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Batting first Duckett lbw first ball. 2-1

WICKET

3 overs

Bethell c Kusal Mendis b Pathirana 3 (Eng 14-2)

WICKET

5 overs

Banton b Wellalage 7 (Eng 28-3)

WICKET

5.4 overs

Brook c Liyanage b Pathirana 4 (Eng 34-4)

WICKET

7.4 overs

Buttler b Theekshana 25 (Eng 47-5)

Tunes in

Oh.

Ben Duckett needs a long holiday

60-6 (10.3)

England are 60 for 6 with 9.3 overs remaining

Daws middle one
Caught on the boundary for 14 off 20
Overton goes same over
109-8 off 18

This pitch needs some good military medium county bowling

There is some awful Dad dancing in that crowd.
50 for Curran