England beat Sri Lanka in 2nd ODI by 10 wickets

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England Team
JJ Roy, AD Hales, JE Root, EJG Morgan*, JM Bairstow, JC Buttler†, MM Ali, CR Woakes, DJ Willey, LE Plunkett, AU Rashid

Sri Lanka Team
MDKJ Perera, MD Gunathilaka, BKG Mendis, LD Chandimal†, AD Mathews*, S Prasanna, WU Tharanga, MF Maharoof, RAS Lakmal, N Pradeep, S Randiv

Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat

 

[Markhor]

Hope England lose.

 

[anuk]

perfect time for sl to sneak a win while the english players are zoned out because of brexit.

 

[The Last Of The Stars]

Don't understand the reason behind Mendis at 3. He has such ordinary domestic statistics. Rubbish selectors.

 

[HitWicket]

Don't understand the reason behind Mendis at 3. He has such ordinary domestic statistics. Rubbish selectors.

The guys 21 and was Sri Lanka's best batsman in the test series.

 

[Hasan123]

Wicket seems decent tbh. Don't think 280 will be enough today

 

[The Last Of The Stars]

The guys 21 and was Sri Lanka's best batsman in the test series.

Whatever, his statistics are ordinary, don't see him doing much better in the future.

 

[The Last Of The Stars]

Kusal Perera is such a good hitter of the ball. Sharjeel should liven up and shed his fears.

 

[The Last Of The Stars]

Moeen Ali is a lucky cricketer, if it were me, he wouldn't be in my ODI and Test squads, let alone playing XI.

 

[marlonbrowndo]

Don't understand the reason behind Mendis at 3. He has such ordinary domestic statistics. Rubbish selectors.

Mendis is class if you watch him bat. Ive noticed you rely too much on statistics. You keep saying Babar Azam's first class stats arent great (has a list A average over 50 btw) so hes overrated and stuff like that. Watch the player bat. What were you doing during the New Zealand series when Shehzad was humiliated as usual and Hafeez and Babar were playing beautifully.

 

[street cricketer]

Kusal Perera is such a good hitter of the ball. Sharjeel should liven up and shed his fears.

Sharjeel is anything but fearful..

 

[The Last Of The Stars]

What the hell is wrong with the umpire's hand?

 

[marlonbrowndo]

Kusal Perera is such a good hitter of the ball. Sharjeel should liven up and shed his fears.

For that we should give him a consistent chance as opener in ODIs and T20s

 

[The Last Of The Stars]

Sharjeel is anything but fearful..

He is quite timid that's why can't play big innings.

 

[The Last Of The Stars]

Mendis is class if you watch him bat. Ive noticed you rely too much on statistics. You keep saying Babar Azam's first class stats arent great (has a list A average over 50 btw) so hes overrated and stuff like that. Watch the player bat. What were you doing during the New Zealand series when Shehzad was humiliated as usual and Hafeez and Babar were playing beautifully.

Brother, there is more than 50 % chance that a batsman will replicate his domestic statistics at International level. Let's see.

 

[MRSN]

SL deserved to win the last ODI really. What a fluke from Plunkett and Woakes.

 

[street cricketer]

He is quite timid that's why can't play big innings.

There is nothing timid about him. He just has to improve his shot array on the off side and his game against spin.

 

[The Last Of The Stars]

There is nothing timid about him. He just has to improve his shot array on the off side and his game against spin.

His body language is timid, should smash fearlessly, and not reluctantly.

 

[street cricketer]

His body language is timid, should smash fearlessly, and not reluctantly.

Gayle's body language is timid as well (at the crease).

 

[AamchiMumbaikar]

What the hell is wrong with the umpire's hand?

Saw that during IPL 2016, hand shield for umpires. Didn't knew it was being used in this series till I saw the match.

 

[Hasan123]

Lankans should target Moen Ali. Will make Morgans life difficult if moen is expensive

 

[ExplicitAI]

I'm expecting a good start from either Roy or Hales

 

[Hasan123]

Brilliant fielding by Roy. Not good judgment of a run there by Chandimal and Perarra

 

[The Last Of The Stars]

Gayle's body language is timid as well (at the crease).

That's why he isn't that effective nowadays. Flopped in IPL.

 

[The Last Of The Stars]

I will change the channel now with Perera gone. Boring match now.

 

[Hasan123]

Rash shot from Mathews

 

[troodon]

Maharoof is useless.

Thisara Perera is much better.

 

[#GreenRoars]

Sri Lanka 204/7 (44.1

 

[#GreenRoars]

Sri Lanka 254/7, 255 target.

 

[The_KING]

Not enough on this wicket

 

[Muhammad10]

The Sri Lankan attack's lack of incision is being exposed here.

This English opening pair will run away with the game if you let them bat for 18 overs.

 

[Spookiewookie]

Just tuned into the game - england looks super comfortable. I take it that the SL batting collapsed....

 

[troodon]

perfect time for sl to sneak a win while the english players are zoned out because of brexit.

This looks more like Slexit.

 

[#GreenRoars]

Peeuuwww, England just floored SL.

 

[troodon]

Peeuuwww, England just floored SL.

This is utter demolition.

It looked like a 400 pitch. Lanka were just not up to it.

 

[Rafay Shafiq]

Beware Pakistan. Have to score 300 plus

 

[Batman_DB]

total demolition

 

[Hasan123]

Easy win for England. Hales and Roy are a destructive pair when they get going

 

[anuk]

This looks more like Slexit.

yes but to be fair to me i was expecting the lankans to play at at least a club cricket level.

embarrassing loss.

 

[Spookiewookie]

That was a lack of a match ...... Convincing victory


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[Muhammad10]

Absolute demolition.

Very demoralising for Sri Lanka, especially after coming so close to winning the first game.

 

[Mp812]

Looks like England are going to be favourite to win a world cup in 2019 after a long time if they continue this

 

[MMHS]

Absolutely deserving - in fact SRL should be defamed with an unique 11 wicket defeat.

After last match, with Lankan bowling & England having Rashid, Plunket at 10/11, what else one should expect after opting to bat first?

 

[msb314]

May I ask why Upul Tharanga was batting at number 7.

Like it or not - he is one of the best opening batsman of our generation and easily better than garbage like Perera and Gunathilaka.

 

[Abdullah719]

May I ask why Upul Tharanga was batting at number 7.

Like it or not - he is one of the best opening batsman of our generation and easily better than garbage like Perera and Gunathilaka.

At least Sri Lanka are looking to the future. Tharanga has had his moments, but he is a very inconsistent player. Has massive issues outside the off-stump, plus he plays too many dots at the beginning of the innings and sucks the momentum, unless he's having one of those days where he plays an amazing innings. Perera and Gunathilaka may fail but in the long-run, this is a better strategy. Tharanga has also played a couple of OK knocks down the order and Sri Lanka are struggling in that department so I guess they wanted to add some solidity. Plus, Tharanga's deficiencies are less likely to be exposed at that position.

 

[msb314]

At least Sri Lanka are looking to the future. Tharanga has had his moments, but he is a very inconsistent player. Has massive issues outside the off-stump, plus he plays too many dots at the beginning of the innings and sucks the momentum, unless he's having one of those days where he plays an amazing innings. Perera and Gunathilaka may fail but in the long-run, this is a better strategy. Tharanga has also played a couple of OK knocks down the order and Sri Lanka are struggling in that department so I guess they wanted to add some solidity. Plus, Tharanga's deficiencies are less likely to be exposed at that position.

Perera and Gunathilaka have done little to suggest they are more consistent than Tharanga. Thirimanne was probably better than both of them.

From 2007 - 2011, Tharanga was insane so that might explain why I have a soft corner for him. Sad to see him now batting at 7 when he was such a good opener.

 

[The_KING]

England are so badly going to trash us in ODIs.

 

[The_KING]

England should definitely win one of Champions Trophy 17 or the World Cup 19 otherwise they would be massive failures in my eyes. Their ODI team is very good atm.

 

[Executioner]

England in ODIs >>>> South Africa

There I said it.

 

[Xeeebon]

England are so badly going to trash us in ODIs.

Though Pak is on very low but at the moment i think Pak is slightly better than current sl i believe,so hope they wil\ put better fight against them...

 

[Suleiman]

Naya England, very strong team.

India-NZ-England-Aus--- the strongest ODI teams right now. With Bangla and WI on the rise.

Aus actually has been a little sloppy in recent times after the World Cup. Let's see how they do in the final.

 

[Suleiman]

Also I feel people are reading too much into SL's performance here.

This was a paradise for batsmen. Except all the batsmen who looked threatening got run out and the one guy who threw it away. Had Kushal and Chandimal kept going instead of getting run out there would be a bigger score to chase.

Granted, SL's attack is weak, but this is just 1 big loss.

 

[The_KING]

Though Pak is on very low but at the moment i think Pak is slightly better than current sl i believe,so hope they wil\ put better fight against them...

I surely hope so.