Cricket

Four away wins on the bounce for England, a walk in the park for the visitors this morning.

The hapless openers and Root's calamitous run out gave Sri Lanka a glimmer of faint hope. This final innings was always going to be on a crumbly wicket deliberately prepared to spit, bounce and turn, heavily favouring Sri Lanka.

Winning the toss and batting first was a huge advantage, the fact that Sri Lanka did that and still lost, shows how incredibly poor their first innings effort was. Any even average performance and you win the match, the side batting last having no chance.

This innings and the incredibly difficult conditions just emphasised what an incredible feat of incompetence it was to win the toss in Galle and still lose here. The second test could also be a win the toss win the match game (in theory).
 
Last summer it was Richard Illingworth proving he's every bit as bad as the worst in the world, and this test we've had one of our perennial offenders to contend with, possibly THE worst of all, certainly of those in the top rank, the so called elite list of umpires - Kumar Dharmasena.

At the end of England's knock it was quite funny how Nasser commented on Broad always knowing or pretending to know why he should review a decision, Broad's reputation for wanting to review everything when batting or bowling no matter how unlikely, is second to none. However perhaps there was a more obvious reason why Broad thought a review was a particularly good idea this time as it was none other than Kumar Dharmasena who had his finger up indicating he thought Broad out. It's 50/50 at best that Kumar is anywhere near correct and the fact it was the second time in the same over he'd been forced to overturn his out decision against Broad surprised noone
 
cronullasharks said:
Things are bad when even kiwis are having a pop at us lol

But yeah tim paine please go you utter helmet
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Was a great test series. Too many times a home side dominates.
Oh and to rub the salt in Im a pom domiciled in NZ. My kids cheer for Oz but for me old habits die hard. Rdfardless, that was a great few hours watching the drama of live sport.
 
BlueInNZ said:
Was a great test series. Too many times a home side dominates.
Oh and to rub the salt in Im a pom domiciled in NZ. My kids cheer for Oz but for me old habits die hard. Rdfardless, that was a great few hours watching the drama of live sport.
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Haha no bitterness here mate, I completely understand why everyone hates this cricket team. Most Aussies dislike them too particularly Warner.
 

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