Sri Lanka Cricket Board President's XI v England XI

[Henry]

Presidents XI win toss and bat.

[Henry]

Prior isnt playing in the match, which to me suggests that Mustard starts as the first choice 'keeper. Surprising really.

[JKLever]

Mustard wont cut it at test level yet IMO.

SL board XI 174-3 at Tea.

Worryingly both our spinners are getting some tap, whilst Broad,Sidebottom & Hoggard all have decent figures.

There goes my '2 spinner' theory then.

[Henry]

Well, we always tend to play crap in the warm up games. It's become a bit of a tradition under Vaughan's captaincy.

[Brass Monkey]

Getting dumped on, playing Tharedga back into the Test side. Wicked. Parny and Swarm getting pummelled. Luring into a false sense of security.

[Chivalry Augustus]

Typical warm-up match probably. Road of a pitch, make the tourists toil, etc.

If it gets Tharanga in to the Test team, it's all good.

[Henry]

Actually, the warm up matches are normally played on green seamers that are anything but like what they will face in the tests.

[Basil]

Broad: 10 overs, 1 for 21 - good start.

[JKLever]

i'm telling you now we'll just be playing the 1 spinner on this tour

[JKLever]

KP telling the local groundstaff how Harmy is going to bowl if we dare pick him...

[Basil]

KP telling the local groundstaff how Harmy is going to bowl if we dare pick him...

[LeFromage]

England in slow start to the tour shocker.

We all know they'll hit their straps just as they're boarding the flight home.

Perfect timing.

[eowyn]

KP telling the local groundstaff how Harmy is going to bowl if we dare pick him...

Hasn't that got something to do with the size of the snake?

[Guest]

Hasn't that got something to do with the size of the snake?

You wish.

[eowyn]

I do indeed

[eowyn]

Look everyone was amazed by the size of the snake

[Basil]

Jimmy bowled 9 overs - so much for the bad back then!

[MidnightCowboy]

3 dropped catches of Broad, Swann and Anderson's bowling.

[furriner]

No offense meant, well not much anyway, but a good number of the English team must be crazy.

There's a huge snake, a cobra apparently, lurking in the undergrowth and they decide to take a look/ find the bloody ball?

I'd have been moving in the opposite direction. At high speed.

Oh and if you haven't noticed, there's only one weedy Lankan in the picture. Even he's prudently far back, 'offering advice'. And apparently trying to plug his backside.

[Henry]

On Australia's tour to Sri Lanka in 1999, the dressing room cleared in seconds as a 2 metre cobra came up one of the bathroom drain pipes.

[Invader Zim]

It turned out to be Warnies todger.

[eowyn]

Warnie's todger!
No wonder he's 'popular'

[Chivalry Augustus]

Harmison-watch:

4-0-33-0-8.25

EDIT:

6-0-48-0-8.00

Broad it is then.

Don't know why the Lankans keep batting. Poor sportsmanship.

[please don't yell]

Only 6 overs out of 130+?

I assume he's injured?

[Henry]

Did Harmison arrive halfway through the match or something? I see he's in form....

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