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Post by Panda on Dec 1, 2007 13:18:38 GMT 1
1st day of the 1st test in Kandy and a great day for England. Sri Lanka were all out for 188 having been 42-5 after winning the toss. Hoggard took 4-29 and Panesar 3-46. Sidebottom and Anderson took a wicket each with Steve Harmison left out of the side.
England lost Cook for 0 in the first over of their innings but Vaughan and Bell saw England through to the close on 49-1.
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Post by wonderwall on Dec 1, 2007 14:18:07 GMT 1
good first day for england hopefully they can psot 300 plus
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Post by Panda on Dec 2, 2007 13:52:27 GMT 1
Sri Lanka had the better of day 2 with England falling from 170-3 to 186-6.
Muralitharan took 4 wickets to equal Shane Warne's record of 708 test wickets.
Ian Bell hit 83 for England. Ravi Bopara made just 8 in his first test innings and Matt Prior was out for a duck.
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Post by wonderwall on Dec 4, 2007 23:31:11 GMT 1
england 9-1 needing 341 to win
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Post by wonderwall on Dec 5, 2007 8:43:15 GMT 1
day 5 england 125-5 looking bleak for england
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Post by Panda on Dec 5, 2007 13:37:54 GMT 1
Bell and Prior managed to put on 109 for the 7th wicket but England couldn't quite bat out the day with the last wicket falling about 20 minutes before the close.
England all out for 261, Sri Lanka win by 88 runs. Murali finished with match figures of 9-140.
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Post by Panda on Dec 9, 2007 14:18:34 GMT 1
England 258-5 at the end of day 1 of the 2nd test.
Cook and Vaughan put on 133 for the 1st wicket. Vaughan made 87, Cook 81. Bopara was out first ball after being preferred to Owais Shah again. Collingwood was 49 not out at the close. England made 2 changes to their attack with Stuart Broad coming in to replace the injured Hoggard to make his test debut and Harmison replacing Anderson.
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Post by Jonny on Dec 9, 2007 14:23:31 GMT 1
It was an unfair that Cook was out. It was CLEARLY wan't going on to hit the wicket.
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Post by wonderwall on Dec 9, 2007 16:56:05 GMT 1
258 is good for a first day 1 wickets less would have been nice though
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Post by wonderwall on Dec 11, 2007 10:24:24 GMT 1
282-3 sri lanka in reply to England's 351 not looking good for england
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Post by Panda on Dec 11, 2007 10:26:49 GMT 1
Heading for a draw, I think, unless England collapse in their second innings.
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Post by wonderwall on Dec 11, 2007 11:31:06 GMT 1
329-3 I really think since our ashes win this team has gone backwards I expected us to win comfortably v sri lanka
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Post by Panda on Dec 11, 2007 12:56:44 GMT 1
I expected us to win comfortably v sri lanka I didn't. India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka are always very difficult places to go and win a test series. 1-1 would be a very good result. That said, we should be beating those teams at home...
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Post by wonderwall on Dec 12, 2007 11:36:19 GMT 1
well sril lanka piled up 548 so england need 197 to make them abt again england second innings 31-0
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Post by wonderwall on Dec 12, 2007 12:05:20 GMT 1
england 48-0 bad light stopped paly looks like that will be clos e of play than goodness
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Post by wonderwall on Dec 13, 2007 10:52:59 GMT 1
250-3 looks like england will get a draw
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Post by Robin on Dec 13, 2007 11:27:38 GMT 1
It's raining so that's that. England draw the 2nd test.
Going back to England's first innings, I think the dismissal of Kevin Pieterson was one of the worst umpiring decisions I had ever seen. Surely once the umpire realise he had made a mistake he would have been able to back track before Pieterson had left the field! Terrible, and shame on the Sri Lankans for even claiming the catch!
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Post by wonderwall on Dec 13, 2007 16:31:18 GMT 1
It's raining so that's that. England draw the 2nd test. Going back to England's first innings, I think the dismissal of Kevin Pieterson was one of the worst umpiring decisions I had ever seen. Surely once the umpire realise he had made a mistake he would have been able to back track before Pieterson had left the field! Terrible, and shame on the Sri Lankans for even claiming the catch! Im not surprise kp is the prized scalp
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Post by frag on Dec 14, 2007 0:59:19 GMT 1
Turned on the TV at around 11 this morning, and was surprised to see they were showing highlights already... so I thought that England had lost, and settled down to watch. After about 15 minutes, sky put an infobar on the screen saying "Match Drawn - you are watching highlights", thus mostly ruining my entertainment Surely anyone with half a brain knows that if they've put "Sky Sports: Today" instead of "Sky Sports: Live" on the top of the screen, highlights are being shown, and not the real thing?
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Post by wonderwall on Dec 14, 2007 12:14:00 GMT 1
Turned on the TV at around 11 this morning, and was surprised to see they were showing highlights already... so I thought that England had lost, and settled down to watch. After about 15 minutes, sky put an infobar on the screen saying "Match Drawn - you are watching highlights", thus mostly ruining my entertainment Surely anyone with half a brain knows that if they've put "Sky Sports: Today" instead of "Sky Sports: Live" on the top of the screen, highlights are being shown, and not the real thing? that is annoying
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