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[Herbie66]

Pucovski ruled out , Harris in

only change to the XI

 

[Herbie66]

You could almost put money on Pucovski tripping over the boundary line on his way to start the Innings one day or being hit by the flag , Warner's bat swirling around etc etc

Finally after all his concussions he debuts and does his shoulder fielding.

 

[Herbie66]

Sri Lanka have won the toss and elected to bat first

 

[Herbie66]

England XI

Crawley , Sibley , Bairstow , Root , Lawrence , Buttler , S Curran , Bess , Leach , Wood , Broad

Missing

Anderson
Archer , Burns , Stokes (not in Squad)
Moeen Ali for Covid on arrival
Pope (recovering from injury)

 

[Herbie66]

Karunaratne out with a fractured thumb , that's 4-5 of their best players that Sri Lanka are missing

Chandimal captain with Karunaratne out

Angelo Mathews back.

 

[Connoisseur]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1349264926833995776

 

[Herbie66]

Broad needed 5 wickets at the start of the series to draw level with Walsh (519)

Currently has 3fa

 

[Herbie66]

Sri Lanka 135

Bess 5/30

 

[Herbie66]

England 127/2 at stumps

Root 66*
Bairstow 47*

 

[Herbie66]

What were the odds on Natarajan , Saini , Siraj & Thakur being India's pace attack for a Test this series ?

 

[Darkie]

What were the odds on Natarajan , Saini , Siraj & Thakur being India's pace attack for a Test this series ?

Must have been 1000-1 or better.

Unless I’m mistaken, their attack has played 2, 1, 1, 0 and 0 Tests before this.

That is unbelievably inexperienced for an established Test side, let alone one as good as India.

My guess is that that probably hasn’t happened in a century, with the possible exception of WWII.

 

[Ironhawk]

Must have been 1000-1 or better.

Unless I’m mistaken, their attack has played 2, 1, 1, 0 and 0 Tests before this.

That is unbelievably inexperienced for an established Test side, let alone one as good as India.

My guess is that that probably hasn’t happened in a century, with the possible exception of WWII.

Sounds like a question for Swamp.

 

[Darkie]

Sounds like a question for Swamp.

I was going to add: Swamp would know!

 

[Herbie66]

Must have been 1000-1 or better.

Unless I’m mistaken, their attack has played 2, 1, 1, 0 and 0 Tests before this.

That is unbelievably inexperienced for an established Test side, let alone one as good as India.

My guess is that that probably hasn’t happened in a century, with the possible exception of WWII.

I think they said they had a combined 13 wickets with Siraj taking 7 of them before the start of play.

 

[mike89]

Three different bowlers with their first wicket today - absolutely remarkable.

Puts into context the fact that Cam Green still hasn't got a wicket yet - it certainly looks like the Indians have taken special care not to play loose shots to him.

 

[Herbie66]

Root 99* at lunch

 

[Herbie66]

England 320/4 at Stumps

Root 168*
Lawrence 73

 

[Herbie66]

Don't think Sunny was too happy with Rohit just then

 

[Herbie66]

Root passes the 8,000 Test runs milestone

 

[Connoisseur]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1350341063219703808