England beat Sri Lanka by 122 runs in 5th ODI

[Abdullah719]

England Squad
EJG Morgan*, MM Ali, JM Bairstow, JC Buttler†, ST Finn, AD Hales, CJ Jordan, LE Plunkett, AU Rashid, JE Root, JJ Roy, JM Vince, DJ Willey, CR Woakes

Sri Lanka Squad
AD Mathews*, LD Chandimal†, DM de Silva, N Dickwella, ANPR Fernando, MD Gunathilaka, S Randiv, RAS Lakmal, MF Maharoof, BKG Mendis, MDKJ Perera, S Prasanna, MD Shanaka, WU Tharanga

Starting time: 09:30 GMT (14:30 PST)

 

[#GreenRoars]

Another phaintee coming?

 

[Rafay Shafiq]

Not started yet

 

[Rafay Shafiq]

Another phaintee coming?

Is PTV sports showing

 

[Suleiman]

Hope Eng win this one to give them a false sense of confidence and security before Babar Azam and Amir crush them to the ground.

 

[HitWicket]

Jordan in for Ali and Vince in for Hales who is rested after his injury last game.e

 

[HitWicket]

Vince is so classy.

 

[#GreenRoars]

England 33/0 (6.0 ov)

 

[#GreenRoars]

Is PTV sports showing

Na bro, not today.

 

[MarkCooper]

Let's get this series over so the proper main event can begin vs a much better team

 

[HitWicket]

Vince brings up his 50 in his first ODI innings, England's depth means he will be dropped for their next odi in all likelihood.

 

[#GreenRoars]

England 108/2 (19/50 ov)

 

[Batman_DB]

will be very disappointed if Root doesnt score big today!!! if he want to a gun ODI player he has to keep accumulating

 

[Deewana Mastana]

Root needs to go.

 

[Deewana Mastana]

82 off 98 now four runs

 

[Deewana Mastana]

Pradeep should've bowled his full 10 overs.

 

[Deewana Mastana]

83 off 100 balls

 

[Deewana Mastana]

Vince brings up his 50 in his first ODI innings, England's depth means he will be dropped for their next odi in all likelihood.

2nd ODI innings was out for 0 in his first.

 

[Ab Fan]

Butler is an aggressive bat and it's good to see him becoming consistent in odi format.He should come at 4-5 and no less than that.

 

[Deewana Mastana]

102 off 85 balls partnership

 

[Deewana Mastana]

Excellent running

 

[Markhor]

Buttler has unreal talent. Perfectly good yorker from Pradeep but hits it to the boundary with those quick hands and powerful bottom hand.

 

[Deewana Mastana]

Buttler gone bowled

 

[Deewana Mastana]

70 off 45 Buttler

 

[Markhor]

Cardiff is a slow surface, best bet for England seamers is to take pace off the ball.

 

[Ab Fan]

Root should get his century today. He has been hit and miss in this series.

 

[Deewana Mastana]

Root on 93 should get 100 his 9th in ODI cricket.

 

[Balthazar]

Such useless players, can't even field.

 

[Hasan123]

Root gone.

 

[Deewana Mastana]

Plunkett in and four first ball

 

[Markhor]

Such a toothless ODI bowling attack without Prasad, Chameera and Herath.

 

[Ab Fan]

Root again misses out on 100. He will remain like this. I have a feeling he will be a hit and a miss at times and when in form may still fail to smack consecutive 100s for this reason only.He might miss out being an ATG and will end up merely as a great batsmen on the lines of Cook and Pietersen.Hopefully, he gets his form back against Pak and does well vs Amir and co.

 

[Hasan123]

Slow start by Sri Lanka here.

 

[Markhor]

Doesn't look like SL are gonna win a single match all tour. Seriously poor series.

 

[Hasan123]

This is the key partnership for Sri Lanka

 

[#GreenRoars]

Sri Lanka 106/5.

 

[Hasan123]

Lankans just want to go home

 

[Thivagar]

Only positive for SL again is Gunathilaka's consistency. Kusal Mendis has thrown his wicket once again without actually letting England take it from him. This is a good sign. Lol at the new 30 year old fast bowling debutante, might have played his first and last international game. Negative is everything else lol.

 

[Thivagar]

Sri Lankan Chris Gayle Prasanna gone.

 

[#GreenRoars]

Sri Lank 170/7.

 

[Thivagar]

This is why SL players are so intelligent, Lakmal asks for a new bat and the bench warmer brings him a bottle of water

 

[Smbhayi]

This is why SL players are so intelligent, Lakmal asks for a new bat and the bench warmer brings him a bottle of water

Lol really

 

[Batman_DB]

not a single win on the tour so far!!! 1 t20 to come hope they can go home with a win!!! very poor tour rain saved brought them 1 washout and a draw oresle it would have been complete whitewash

 

[Markhor]

Only positive for SL again is Gunathilaka's consistency. Kusal Mendis has thrown his wicket once again without actually letting England take it from him. This is a good sign. Lol at the new 30 year old fast bowling debutante, might have played his first and last international game. Negative is everything else lol.

Sri Lanka had a real failure to convert starts into big knocks this series.

12 players made half centuries but not one made 80 let alone 100.

 

[The_Odd_One]

Mathews has to bat at #3 and Chandimal at #4.

 

[The_KING]

Sad result. SL can't win a game and they haven't even played that badly. They were quite unlucky at times.

 

[#GreenRoars]

England outclassed Sri Lanka, sad results though.

 

[Thivagar]

Lol really

Sri Lanka had a real failure to convert starts into big knocks this series.

12 players made half centuries but not one made 80 let alone 100.

Not surprised from a team where half the players still ball watch while running.

If I remember correctly they were all scored by Gunathilaka, Mendis, Mathews, Chandimal and one by Prasanna. Gunathilaka and Mendis are new, in fact I think Kusal Mendsi has only one century even in FC and List A combined. Prasanna is a hack, so lets ignore him. Chandimal has hit 4 50s in a row, he should have converted at least one of them into a century. Mathews comes too late.

 

[Aman]

I'd rather watch a game of aerial ping pong than watch SL play these days.

 

[anuk]

damn didnt even know there was a game on last night

 

[SL_Fan]

damn didnt even know there was a game on last night

Probably for the best eh chief

Any ways congrats Eng thoroughly deserved. Since the WC they have been brilliant in all formats.