The Cricket Thread - New Year New (Vir)Us

I can’t do it on my ‘phone (and I’m not sure about my Mac actually), but imagine a picture of Mark Corrigan saying, ‘Three seamers, England? Three? That’s insane.’

Good session. England did everything right with the exception of a shoddy field for some of the spin overs and the drop by Lawrence off Chandimal.

Broad, Wood and Curran all bowled well (though Broad's first over was almost exclusively down the leg-side :slol:

). Mathews looks very uncomfortable against Wood who was routinely between 91-93mph from his third delivery onwards.

Leach was a little loose, but from his third over onwards he was much better, bowled a couple of absolute jaffas that had Chandimal groping and consider himself fortunate to have survived.

Bess has probably been the weakest of the bowlers but barely. Couple of pies aside he's put it in good areas, keeping the batsmen honest.

The only thing to nitpick is Root's field. He is going to need to learn how to set better fields to spin if he wants to challenge India.

Did not expect to wake up to this.

Sri Lanka are proper shite at the moment.

Bess hasn't been good this spell but has somehow picked up a wicket with the longest of long hops.

Oh also, you can watch this series on the SL Cricket YouTube channel but you'll need a VPN set to Sri Lanka.

Oh my God @ the Shanaka wicket :lol:

He's slog-swept hard, Barstow who is fielding at short leg jumps in the air to avoid being hit, it cannons off his foot and pops up into the air directly into Buttler's gloves.

Bess again :lol:

The worst 4-fer in Test history.

Drumstick wrote:Bess hasn't been good this spell but has somehow picked up a wicket with the longest of long hops.

Looks like he's on for a Michelle.

Apparently the latest wicket was quite good. Almost spoils it.

This match is ridiculous, hope England aren't using up all their luck on the first cricket day of the year.

Five for Bess. :slol:

Some bad shots and some good luck with a lot of those wickets, but I'll take it!

England getting in on the comedy!

twitter.com/N0SEBEER/status/1349670673900331010

Those shorts :dread:

Is he in his budgie smugglers?

Any budgie would probably be suffocated.

Also now that play has finished, it's finally safe to say: Root looked classy today.

Obligatory Root needs to convert post.

The Cricket Thread - New Year New (Vir)Us

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