It's low thirties, I think. His domestic one day average is just under fifty. He just doesn't seem to know how to play a longer innings.
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Prior's been injured.
Hmm, just found an article from a match last season.
Interesting considering the things which happened today. Ashwin mankaded Thirramane(sp?) but withdrew his appeal. Jayawardene said this about later:
Interesting considering the things which happened today. Ashwin mankaded Thirramane(sp?) but withdrew his appeal. Jayawardene said this about later:
Meh. Buttler only really has himself to blame. The far more annoying aspect of it is that it's a guy who shouldn't even be playing cause he's a blatant chucker that's done it 
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BpN9J2uCYAE9_qZ.jpg
really stretching to claim he's attempting to gain an unfair advantage there, Senanayake's basically stuffed him by stopping.
really stretching to claim he's attempting to gain an unfair advantage there, Senanayake's basically stuffed him by stopping.
I'm still not really managing sympathy. Just don't leave your crease until it's bowled. After being warned, it's just silly.
Note from the author - I worry I'm looking like I have something against Buttler, saying this, after suggesting his claim for a test place is a poor one. I don't. I think he has the potential to be England's best one day batsmen since Trescothick.
I appreciate its dozy from Buttler, and its technically out, I just don't think it sits right. To do it when a batsman's charging down is fair enough, to do it when its only because you've stopped for no reason other than to run him out just isn't in the right spirit, imo.
Take this Gurney over just gone, every single delivery Thirimanne was at the non strikers for he'd moved his bat before Gurney completed his delivery swing.
Yeah, that's fair, I think. I'd be a bit annoyed if one of our players had done it.
I reckon Senanayake will have to be very careful if he has to bat at any stage 
If England had picked a proper bowler instead of the medium pacer they picked just because he's left handed they'd probably have won this series.
Well that's not really a fair thing to say because Gurney's been really tearing it up in domestic limited overs games. He definitely deserves his chance. But I do think that if they're looking at a left arm option then my choice would be Reece Topley rather than Gurney. Although I think the thing that Gurney has in his favour is that he's actually half capable of bowling at the death, which really is an area where England have been deficient for a long time.
He's just not a wicket taker for me. No problem with him in T20, in 50 overs I just don't think he has the pace or accuracy to do much to trouble good international players. He'll get the odd wicket here and there, but he looks very average to me.
Looking forward to this test series now, its all looking a bit spiky between the teams after that.
Should've won this series, I think. I don't reckon this Sri Lanka side is that great and to lose to them in England, in May and early June, is not a wonderful start to Moores second spell.
It's not the fact we've lost thats irked me, its the way we've lost. The fact, if anything, we've got more plodders at the top of the innings worries me greatly, the fact we still can't accumulate against spin, and the fact we rely on our lower order to score at 10 an over every time to get a decent score indicate we haven't learnt.
Amount of hypocrisy shown by some English players and some parts of the media is astonishing.
Where was this 'spirit of cricket' bullshit when Broad nicked it and didn't walk?
It is the most hypocritical thing I've seen in cricket. Cook says "line was crossed" -- his batsman was in the wrong, get over it. And even if he wasn't, there is no seat for him to complain from considering the antics likes of Broad get up to.
Where was this 'spirit of cricket' bullshit when Broad nicked it and didn't walk?
It is the most hypocritical thing I've seen in cricket. Cook says "line was crossed" -- his batsman was in the wrong, get over it. And even if he wasn't, there is no seat for him to complain from considering the antics likes of Broad get up to.
Plunkett JEEEEZ thats a blast from the past. Made up for him though, by all accounts he's bowling very quickly this year.
Happy enough with the team, even if Samit Patel can probably consider himself a little unlucky.
Happy enough with the team, even if Samit Patel can probably consider himself a little unlucky.
Good England squad this, form players being given a shot, although we will need to find a spinner sooner rather than later.
Remember this?
Same old fecking shite.
Sri Lanka bowling very well to be fair so far. But Cook really really needs to work out how to score against full bowling. He used to even be a pretty effective driver even if it wasn't exactly pretty, but that's disappeared too.
we flew too close to the sun and are now back where we belong.
They're both bowling at about medium pace, yes they're moving it a bit and bowling in the right areas but if you can't survive this then you shouldn't be playing test cricket.
Nonsense. Kulasekara looks very innocuous but the other kid is bowling at 87-88 which is as fast as any of the England bowlers will bowl. But agreed with the second part.
Drop Cook, sell Root, Buy Pieterson.
I don't know why but i just can't stand Cook. Such a typical private school boy (nothing wrong with private schools). One of those gimps who only picks his mates and if you aren't one of the 'lads' you don't get in the team.
The fact that he has no personality doesn't help.
The fact that he has no personality doesn't help.
I forgot how much I love listening to Warne talk about Test cricket as long as he's not commentating on fecking Australia.
Cook has been poor for a good while now.
yep, shit since the nz tour.
Captaincy and pressure of having to lead from the front is getting to Cook. His style of batting is to nurdle the ball around. Therefore a quick bowler will target him outside off stump because he leaves an opening between bat and pad. His form in 2011 is looking like a purple patch rather than true ability. Still a good opener but his lack of conviction is being exposed.
I recall Gambhir being rated the best batsman in the world and he was another who grinded runs at the top rather than showing conviction and bowlers exploited this as he's always a candidate for an outside edge.
I recall Gambhir being rated the best batsman in the world and he was another who grinded runs at the top rather than showing conviction and bowlers exploited this as he's always a candidate for an outside edge.
I'm sorry, but you don't score 25 Test hundreds by being 'in a purple patch'
I'm sorry, but you don't score 25 Test hundreds by being 'in a purple patch'
The heights he reached that year were incredible and bare in mind he was looking like he would get dropped for that Ashes series. Everything in this period went his way which is what a purple patch is.
As I said he is a good batsman but now the flaws which we saw prior to that period and in the last 12 months have been evident.
Have we found our left handed Amla???
Looks like a very elegant player
Looks like a very elegant player
He is. Watched him a lot when I was a member at Worcestershire. Ridiculously talented but used to get himself out far too often. Haven't seen much of him, lately, so I'm hoping he's improved on that.Have we found our left handed Amla???
Looks like a very elegant player
Still work to be done, from the looks of it. That was loose.
It was pretty loose, DOTA, you're right.
Just looking at our lower order, here. Jordan, Broad, Plunkett at 8,9,10 is nice. There's many a breezy half century in that.
Just looking at our lower order, here. Jordan, Broad, Plunkett at 8,9,10 is nice. There's many a breezy half century in that.
I quite like the look of this England team so far, but if Cook doesn't start scoring runs again then we're on a hiding to no where regardless.
We'll see how England bowl, but Ali is the only one I'm really interested in. Anderson and Broad we know about, and I can't see Plunkett and Jordan sticking around long when Stokes is fit and Finn is deemed selectable again.
Other than that, stop fecking around with the batting order. Root scoring runs at 5 will lead to moronic calls for him to bat at 3 (LEAVE HIM WHERE HE'S feckING SCORING RUNS AAAARGH), Ali looked good until he threw it away, and Bell is sublime but also needs to stop throwing it away. Ballance is the only issue, I still have seen little to suggest he's a test player, let alone a test number three and think his technique is going to be brutally exposed at international level, he should get a run to prove me wrong but I hope Trotts 2nd XI hundred is the beginning of the road to him playing international cricket again.
We'll see how England bowl, but Ali is the only one I'm really interested in. Anderson and Broad we know about, and I can't see Plunkett and Jordan sticking around long when Stokes is fit and Finn is deemed selectable again.
Other than that, stop fecking around with the batting order. Root scoring runs at 5 will lead to moronic calls for him to bat at 3 (LEAVE HIM WHERE HE'S feckING SCORING RUNS AAAARGH), Ali looked good until he threw it away, and Bell is sublime but also needs to stop throwing it away. Ballance is the only issue, I still have seen little to suggest he's a test player, let alone a test number three and think his technique is going to be brutally exposed at international level, he should get a run to prove me wrong but I hope Trotts 2nd XI hundred is the beginning of the road to him playing international cricket again.
One swallow....
Still, very impressive first innings, especially given SL's bowling performance in the T20s and ODIs. Nice to see England recover from a bad position. Agree that the openers need an upgrade-can't rely on 100 partnerships for the 4th and 5th wicket all of the time. That said, game is England's to lose at this point.
Of course, we still need two openers (hopefully the two actually playing), a number 3, a spinner (hopefully Ali can do a job in these conditions) and some consistency, but its a nice start I'm quite liking the look and the balance of the side going forward.