CWC Day 22 Thread - England V Sri Lanka

KevIRL

As the the English camp keep on repeating "our world cup begins here" (Conviently forgetting the loss to NZ and 3 not so great wins over associate countries.

Arguments can made for England winning, but for me, just the bowling attacks just dont compare.

Unless one of the English batsmen pulls out a huge performance, then its Sri Lanka by a mile for me.

Thoughts?

Updates here tomorrow

county

england to win,our world cup begins here:)

Royale with Cheese

England to get slaughtered, unless both Pietersen and Collingwood get big scores.

Has Joyce been dropped?

DMC

Royale with Cheese wrote:

Has Joyce been dropped?

Noises from the England camp say Strauss plays. Its likely that Joyce will be the fall guy.

Sri Lankan win.

mikeruurds

county wrote:

england to win,our world cup begins here:)

Gotta go against you there for the first time County.

Sri Lanka all the way for me.

whatawaster

Sri Lanka should win on paper, but you have to expect England to up their game. And their key players: Collingwood, Pietersen and Flintoff, are all starting to show form and Panesar is bowling well. They need to get rid of Jayasuria early I think.

Mothman

From cricinfo

England won the toss and elected to field first

England are unchanged despite all the talk of a return for Andrew Strauss, so Ed Joyce stays at the top while Sajid Mahmood keeps his place

DMC

Sri Lanka 21/0 after 6...

Mahmood is starting to look like the new Paul Mooney.... 3 overs, none for 14...

Rjd2

spoke to soon DMC!! Guess who is gone and guess who bowled him!!:D

whatawaster

Rjd2 wrote:

spoke to soon DMC!! Guess who is gone and guess who bowled him!!:D

Paul Mooney. Who else.

pwd

149 for 2 after 33 overs

DMC

Rjd2 wrote:

spoke to soon DMC!! Guess who is gone and guess who bowled him!!:D

He's taken the only two today too.

Very conservative from SL...

Rjd2

164-3 the next few overs are crucial, if Sri Lanka get 250+ England may struggle however if they can limit them to under 220 or so I would fancy England to win.
Glen Mc Grath earler, and people wonder why he is so disliked arrogant little so and so
"I think we have played some awesome cricket and, to be honest, no team has really got close to us.

"The way England have been playing and the way we've been playing we should win this game pretty well."

mike65

Well thats proberly a fair assessment tbh.

Mike.

Rjd2

194-5 Sri Lanka need a few runs quickly here or England will really fancy their chances.
Dilshan is the man gone by the way.

Marshy

Silva just yorked by Flintoff to leave SL 215-6.

Not looking like a great total. Eng right in the game.

Rjd2

221-7 vaas gone,they can forget about 250 now. I fancy England to win with Collingwood top scoring.

KevIRL

So 236 needed. This could be v interesting and certainly not the walk in the park the Sky commentators are thinking it might be.

Joyce surely playing to save his carreer

DMC

KevIRL wrote:

Joyce surely playing to save his carreer

We've written him off before (in the CB series) and proved us wrong once, can he do it again? One of the toughest bowling attacks is just ahead... this is the biggest test of his career.

DMC

Jon Lewis has left the England squad for personal reasons, Stuart Broad has been called up.

KevIRL

1 run off the first over.

Im away from a TV, any streams?

KevIRL

Vaughan gone

1-1

DMC

Joyce gone to Malinga lbw

11/2 after 5.2 overs

Currently England 14/2 after 6.2 overs

I won't be near a TV for a while yet, making do with TMS on the intarweb

Marshy

KP starting to dominate. It could be the end for joyce.

Eng 33-2 after 10

KevIRL

Marshy wrote:

KP starting to dominate. It could be the end for joyce.

Eng 33-2 after 10

Pietersen on fire

56-2 Eng

pwd

anybody have a link to see online by any chance?

KevIRL

100-2 (25ovs)

KevIRL

Bell out

run out 47

KevIRL

Murali gets Pietersen for 58

126-4

KevIRL

Flintoff gone for 2

133-5 (33.1ovs)

mikeruurds

England just aren't that great at the moment. Shame really.

6 down now as Collingwood out Fernando LBW

KevIRL

Collingwood gone for 14

2 wickets in 3 balls for Fernando

133-6 (33.3ovs)

county

england are in the sh1t big time
100 needed from 93

KevIRL

county wrote:

england are in the sh1t big time
100 needed from 93

Not to worry, their World Cup begins here.

county

close call there

87 from 73

mikeruurds

KevIRL wrote:

Not to worry, their World Cup begins here.

Don't speak too soon Kev...

You still as bullish about their chances County or have you lost all hope?

KevIRL

81 from 66...

DMC

I've just realised who Malinga looks like....

Macy Gray...

Google it... its uncanny!

county

mikeruurds wrote:

Don't speak too soon Kev...

You still as bullish about their chances County or have you lost all hope?

still confident but i feel will need a few big shots asap

KevIRL

73 from 52...

county

66 from 42

KevIRL

Nice 4 from Bopara

mike65

No chance, they'll get out trying. 9 an over?

Mike.

county

nice 4
49 from 30

KevIRL

mike65 wrote:

No chance, they'll get out trying. 9 an over?

Mike.

Bopara doing ok, outside chance

county

another 4

10 from the over

KevIRL

2 good overs. Game on!

county

this is close

32 from 18,7 from the over

KevIRL

county wrote:

this is close

32 from 18,7 from the over

England need 1 big over....

KevIRL

Murali bowling his final over now

county

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