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RE: Sri Lanka's tour of England 2016 - Lord Snooty - 09-06-2016
England v Sri Lanka
The 3rd Test Match
Thursday June 9th - Tuesday June 13
at Lord's
starting at 11:00
starting at 11:00
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Toss: England win and bat first.
England unchanged.
England 1 Alastair Cook (capt), 2 Alex Hales, 3 Nick Compton, 4 Joe Root, 5 James Vince, 6 Jonny Bairstow (wk), 7 Moeen Ali, 8 Chris Woakes, 9 Stuart Broad, 10 Steven Finn, 11 James Anderson
Sri Lanka 1 Dimuth Karunaratne, 2 Kaushal Silva, 3 Kusal Mendis, 4 Dinesh Chandimal (wk), 5 Angelo Mathews (capt), 6 Lahiru Thirimanne, 7 Kusal Perera, 8 Rangana Herath, 9 Suranga Lakmal, 10 Shaminda Eranga, 11 Nuwan Pradeep
RE: Sri Lanka's tour of England 2016 - Lord Snooty - 09-06-2016
Good start. First half century opening partnership of the series, but then Hales and now Compton both gone.
Here cometh the Rootmaster.
FFS. Bloody technology! Root given out LBW following a review.
Lunch 74-3
RE: Sri Lanka's tour of England 2016 - Lord Snooty - 09-06-2016
Cook out for 85
RE: Sri Lanka's tour of England 2016 - Lord Snooty - 09-06-2016
And yet another century for Jonny Bairstow.
Close day 1: Eng 279-6
RE: Sri Lanka's tour of England 2016 - Lord Snooty - 10-06-2016
CLOSE DAY 2:
England 416
Sri Lanka 162/1 (49.0 ov)
Sri Lanka trail by 254 runs with 9 wickets remaining in the 1st innings
RE: Sri Lanka's tour of England 2016 - Lord Snooty - 11-06-2016
Good bowling in the first hour this morning from Woakes and Broad.
3 wickets for just 15 runs in the first hour.
RE: Sri Lanka's tour of England 2016 - Lord Snooty - 11-06-2016
Lunch SL 218-6
That's 56-5 this morning
RE: Sri Lanka's tour of England 2016 - Lord Snooty - 11-06-2016
288 all out
RE: Sri Lanka's tour of England 2016 - Lord Snooty - 12-06-2016
Close day 4:
England 416 & 233/7d
Sri Lanka 288 & 32/0 (12.0 ov)
Sri Lanka require another 330 runs with 10 wickets remaining
RE: Sri Lanka's tour of England 2016 - jjamez - 13-06-2016
Cook pulled out a reverse sweep, an attempted scoop and also hit a six. The mans gonna be back in the odi fold...!