England v Sri Lanka, 8th ICCCT Match, The Oval, 13 June, 2013

And England f*cking this up

Buttler gone as well.

Sniggah.

260 is a stretch from here

Bresnan's gone too, amazing collapse.

What do you expect?

The triumvirate of sloth face 209 balls in the innings, 78 of them powerplay balls and they score 155 runs between them. Forgive my possibly bad maths, but that's 4.42 an over. So, they leave 91 balls for the unselfish players to try to muster a score.

Stick THAT SHIT in your analysis pipe and smoke it!

Brez, you bionic bonehead!



Bad decision for swivel-wristed Morgs has slapped Poms sideways.

A rather crap spell by Malinga, to be fair. One good over.

Bops is going Napeshit!

Brilliant by Bopara. Know this has been mentioned before, but that elbow looked dodgy in a slow motion.

Good lord, Bopara's gone nuts.  Just 4 balls that have prolly won England the game.

All going to plan for England.

Brass Monkey wrote:Bops is going Napeshit!

Reinventor.

Napeshit! 28 runs off that over.

Some good Kiwi solidarity going down on Twitter:

Iain O'Brien @iainobrien
Bowden - nob

Brass Monkey wrote:Napeshit! 28 runs off that over.

BOPSHIT. Get it right. BOPSHIT.

Lovely stuff from Ravi Bops to - again - bail out England's miserable, feet-dragging top order and recuse a reasonable total from out of the rubble.

Root should open. Bell can f*ck right off. Little Joe showed with a positive mindset and hard running than you could score at a run a ball quite comfortably without taking massive risks. 

Jos "the finisher" Buttler's tournament: 1, 0.

That's some quality finishing. Glad the entire tactics for the innings are built around him.

Joe Root's lofty dobbers are no use - it's about time someone collared him - innocuous. These two batsmen are pretty much a run a ball with very little risks. The pitch must have changed.

SL pissing this.

It's almost as though it's possible to score at 5.5 an over fairly comfortably before the final ten overs of the innings.

Weird.

If England lose, it'll be the top three's inert batting that lost it.

Well yeah, as it turned out it was 209 balls (78 powerplay) 155 runs scored, versus 91 balls (12 powerplay) 138 runs scored. That's an incredibly damning statistic.

Dello wrote:SL pissing this.

It's almost as though it's possible to score at 5.5 an over fairly comfortably before the final ten overs of the innings.

Weird.

If England lose, it'll be the top three's inert batting that lost it.

To be fair it's only that one Root over that's the difference at this stage. Swann and Chavi putting the brakes on. We do need a wicket soon though, so they don't have too much of a platform to attack from.

Swanner gets Dilshan. No need for that, but Swann's been tight.

Broad's bowling Jayawardene back into form.

tricycle wrote:Broad's bowling Jayawardene back into form.

He's being very kind. Leg stump half volleys and half trackers.

If Broad has to bowl out, SL will win this with overs to spare.

Bums squeaking, gents?