England v
Sri Lanka
2nd
Test: Day 3
Finally Sri
Lanka show that there is not much wrong with the pitch or the conditions
May 29th
2016
No time
to write today, but this was the day that cricket fans had been waiting for.
Despite losing their last two 1st innings wickets within 4 overs in
the morning and losing a wicket early after the follow-on was inevitably
enforced, Sri Lanka have done England a favour by giving them a really hard
work out and showing that there was nothing wrong with the pitch whatsoever.
Whinging about greentops (on which England scored 500 batting first) can end.
Interesting
items to come out of the day’s play include the suggestion that maybe Chris
Woakes could retain his place when Ben Stokes is fit, with a very off-colour Steve
Finn potentially making way. And Moeen Ali discovering that life is not as easy
as he had been having it so far: series figures of 5-4-2-1 taking a massive
dent as the Sri Lankans targeted him. With Somerset’s Jack Leach (a genuine
batting ferret) and Simon Kerrigan at Lancashire showing some decent form, there
are some options appearing. As both Leach and Kerrigan are Slow Left Arm, you
could even make a case to play Moeen with one or other, giving England a
genuinely balanced attack, while retaining three quality seamers.
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