Sour Mash Posted 27 March, 2012 Share Posted 27 March, 2012 Thoughts? Great bowling effort wasted by Monty's catching and poor batting? Anyone know where those without Sky Sports can at least see the highlights? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
This Charming Man Posted 27 March, 2012 Share Posted 27 March, 2012 Channel 4 used to have a highlights package, not sure if they still do though. Classic England though, a half decent spinner get's a couple of wickets and all of a sudden he's Murili and tears through the entire team. Expect him to do the same in every match for the rest of the tour. Not sure what it is about spinners being able to cast spells over our batsmen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badgerx16 Posted 27 March, 2012 Share Posted 27 March, 2012 Take out Bell's & Jawa's scores and they are 2 well matched, but poor, teams. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
This Charming Man Posted 27 March, 2012 Share Posted 27 March, 2012 Take out Bell's & Jawa's scores and they are 2 well matched, but poor, teams. Another way to look at it is one of their players scored nearly as many as we managed in our entire innings. Doesn't sound too great when phrased like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sour Mash Posted 27 March, 2012 Author Share Posted 27 March, 2012 Channel 4 used to have a highlights package, not sure if they still do though. Classic England though, a half decent spinner get's a couple of wickets and all of a sudden he's Murili and tears through the entire team. Expect him to do the same in every match for the rest of the tour. Not sure what it is about spinners being able to cast spells over our batsmen. Can't find any highlights on any "normal" channel. Annoying. As for this test - just shows how hard test cricket is to predict, impossible to have called how these innings would go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Cat Posted 27 March, 2012 Share Posted 27 March, 2012 highlights here http://www.crichotline.com/sri-lanka-vs-england-day-2-highlights-1st-test-2012/ It's ridiculous that no terrestrial channel has any highlights. There's always some on the internet though. Seems like someone makes up about 10-20 minutes of highlights for each session, and the fact they are up not long after play has finished is almost as impressive as Jimmy Anderson's bowling. Some terrible shots from our batsmen. Strauss, Pietersen and Trott especially. In fact Trott's dismissal is pretty damn funny, he must have felt like a right knob. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevegrant Posted 27 March, 2012 Share Posted 27 March, 2012 Trott getting out to a ball even I'd probably manage to hit to the boundary was an impressive effort Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sour Mash Posted 27 March, 2012 Author Share Posted 27 March, 2012 highlights here http://www.crichotline.com/sri-lanka-vs-england-day-2-highlights-1st-test-2012/ It's ridiculous that no terrestrial channel has any highlights. There's always some on the internet though. Seems like someone makes up about 10-20 minutes of highlights for each session, and the fact they are up not long after play has finished is almost as impressive as Jimmy Anderson's bowling. Some terrible shots from our batsmen. Strauss, Pietersen and Trott especially. In fact Trott's dismissal is pretty damn funny, he must have felt like a right knob. Cheers mate, will give that a go! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dubai_phil Posted 28 March, 2012 Share Posted 28 March, 2012 340 to win. Yeah right. Seems The Bowlers have done well but they've had their foot on the SL throat a few times and just let things slip through their fingers. be lucky to make it last until lunchtime 2mro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sour Mash Posted 29 March, 2012 Author Share Posted 29 March, 2012 A test England should have won? Sounds like it. Hard part of the world to play cricket in, but sounds like England lacking in a bit of focus and application on this one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevegrant Posted 29 March, 2012 Share Posted 29 March, 2012 The first innings was where that Test was lost. 264 in the fourth innings was a very credible effort, the biggest ever fourth innings score at Galle (previous was 250-something). Also, while we bowled very well again, we seemed to lack the energy to finish Sri Lanka off. Their last 4 wickets in each innings added 148 and 100 runs respectively. That's the sort of scenario where a more experienced bowler like Bresnan would have been of more use than a debutant like Samit Patel. Broad's catch off a no-ball in the second innings cost 50 runs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThreeSixty Posted 29 March, 2012 Share Posted 29 March, 2012 Worst thing about watching England play cricket is when a team sets a field for KP. Rather than Kev thinking 'Hang on, ill knock it into the gaps for a few overs till they change it back' He puffs out he his chest and says 'Oi, fark off mate, ill show you' and gets out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Cat Posted 29 March, 2012 Share Posted 29 March, 2012 Thought we'd win that when Trott and Prior were going well, but one special bit of fielding and the whole game turned again. Brilliant match though and a timely reminder of just how good test cricket can be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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