Sri Lanka [232/9] beat England [212] by 20 runs in the 27th match of the 2019 World Cup

[AamchiMumbaikar]

lmao England have to beat 2 out of 3 teams - they have us, Aus and India left.

Have you seen Morgan's post match press meet? I am all up for being straight and on the face but that is outright arrogance from the guy

 

[Aman]

Have you seen Morgan's post match press meet? I am all up for being straight and on the face but that is outright arrogance from the guy

What he say?

I'm not surprised though, English teams are arrogant and usually reek of a sense of entitlement. As if all they needed to do was show up to make the Semis.

 

[DHONI183]

Malinga has proved that a senior player, a capable one of course, is like a sleeping lion which can wake up any time and just run away with the game. Any time a senior player can bring all his wisdom and experience into the game and..... well, do what Malinga does on his day - what he yesterday did. I was so delighted by Sri Lanka´s win that I felt like running shirtless in Germany! Well done Sri Lanka! Thank you for throwing the tournament wide and open!

I feel for England here. The tournament has such a cut throat format (and full credit to the ICC for that) that a team who are red hot favourites to lift the World Cup, and till yesterday were guaranteed a place in the semi-finals, suddenly have a headache and really will have to play well from hereon to qualify for the semi-finals. The problem for them obviously is that their three remaining matches are all against those teams who are considered the other best teams of the tournament besides themselves of course. Mind you, this could work for them, I mean, being tested like this going into the knock-out stage. It´ll massively boost their confidence if they qualify for it by beating the three strong teams of the world.

A word of praise here must go to Stokes. So far in the tournament, England have only twice played on pitches where runs weren´t coming all that easy, and he top-scored in both the games for them. A really brave and lion-hearted cricketer who´s ready to curb his natural, aggressive style of play for the sake of the team, as opposed to selfishly going for the needless big shots just because "I can´t change my game." The blame for yesterday´s loss must massively lie on the shoulders of Moeen Ali. A horrible shot given the situation, given the fact that the match was in the balance already at that point. Disappointed with him.

 

[HitWicket]

This is outright cockiness from this guy

It's a joke mate...

 

[Smbhayi]

Exactly why Mathews slow painstaking innings was extremely crucial. People here just harp on about Strike Rates but it was Mathews innings that gave SL some semblance of a total to defend. Whether they can defend or not is another matter.

This is the sort of innings that misbah used to play and give Pakistan something to bowl at. People have to understand that teams like SL and Pakistan don't have quality batsmen so guys like Mathews and Misbah have to build these painstaking innings for their bowlers. You put Mathews and Misbah in England's line up and then see their Strike Rates shoot up.

These days, Imam's role is to anchor the innings and he's been doing it pretty well in recent times (excluding the world cup). So people need to understand each person's role in the context of their team and not compare batsmen to the likes of Roy, Buttler, Kohli.

Misbah plays same way always even when he comes after a good start... Didn't Akram say something like Misbah is a good batsman for 30-3 situation not for a 180-3 situation?

 

[Smbhayi]

De silva is a common name in Brazil and Lanka dunno how that works..

from Portuguese maybe..

 

[Smbhayi]

Match of the tournament and guess what, this is the only game i missed. Uffff

same here... not even bothered about looking score card guessing SL will be steamrolled by ENG.. Happy though, coz most of the time I watch, I don't get desire results..