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Quote from: aysg76 on January 24, 2021, 10:08:43 AM

The match is heading towards a draw until Sri Lanka decides to hit some runs in ODI style and ask England to bat on last day.
But the question is do Sri Lanka team have balls to do what Former Australian team used to do?

Today we are in fourth day and we are going to have result because what a bowling from English Spinners duo Leach and Bess takes 4 wickets each and bring back England in business now they need 164 runs to win this second test and series even its very good target to chase but I am feeling Englaind can achieve this right now its very good prepartion for them before very long tour of India as Root is on fire with good bowling from Anderson Leach and Bess.
Right now England in chase of 164 runs 17/1 40 more overs left in today game mean we have surely today result for this match.

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Quote from: 7788bitcoin on January 25, 2021, 02:12:39 AM

The spinners are getting purchase from the wicket and if Sri Lanka could put a decent total from this situation they can make this match competitive.

England spinners took 10 wickets and Sri Lanka is all out for 126 runs and England need 160 runs to win the match, really disappointing performance by the Sri Lankan batsman and i am hoping the pitch is difficult to bat for England as well and if that is the case the match will be interesting.

Lasith Embuldeniya picked his 8th wicket of the match and if he can spin his magic we might see them win.

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Not sure what is happening to Sri Lanka, in the last match they performed really poor in the first innings and they somehow tried to bat longer in the second innings and in this Test they performed well in the first innings but in the second innings they are playing as if they are bored to stay in the crease as they are struggling with just 67 for 6 and it will be just a replica of the last match. The spinners are getting purchase from the wicket and if Sri Lanka could put a decent total from this situation they can make this match competitive.

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Quote from: JSRAW on January 24, 2021, 08:14:03 AM

Don't know if they strategically schedule Sri Lanka series or not but yeah it was good move from the ECB. . Srilankan were having hard time restricting Joe Root. I am hoping that Joe Root already ran out of all juice after 2 big tons Cheesy

otherwise he's going to be a big problem. Their opening pair is looking very bad atm but they have at least 5-6 fine match winners.

Anderson - Broad duo is good but IMO more focus should be on their spin department, especially Moin Ali.

The English batsmen seems to be having issues against Sri Lankan spinners. Lasith Embuldeniya has so far picked up 7 wickets (he may end up with 8 ). Joe Root was exceptional, but hardly anyone else contributed with the bat. Their opening pair looks like the most vulnerable (Zak Crawley and Dom Sibley). I know that Crawley hit 267 against Pakistan. But if you take out that score, his test career would look pathetic.

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The match is heading towards a draw until Sri Lanka decides to hit some runs in ODI style and ask England to bat on last day.
But the question is do Sri Lanka team have balls to do what Former Australian team used to do?

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Quote from: JSRAW on January 24, 2021, 08:14:03 AM

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Indian team almost unbeatable at home for quite some time and its calls it final frontier for a reason but records are meant to be broken that's what we learned in last week. Team India looking good but this England team is looks equally good and the way Joe Root making back 2 back 100s for fun, and James Anderson showing form by taking 6 wicket haul. Srilankans are light weight but still its a problem for India . We could expect fine game of cricket in coming weeks.

One thing I liked about the England team is that they scheduled the tour very intelligently. They are coming to India after a tour in Sri Lanka, which means that they will be acclimatized with the sub-continental conditions (the ground conditions in Sri Lanka are very similar to those in India). Also, they have two very experienced pacers in James Anderson and Stuart Broad, who have a combined total of 1100 plus test wickets.

Don't know if they strategically schedule Sri Lanka series or not but yeah it was good move from the ECB. . Srilankan were having hard time restricting Joe Root. I am hoping that Joe Root already ran out of all juice after 2 big tons Cheesy

otherwise he's going to be a big problem. Their opening pair is looking very bad atm but they have at least 5-6 fine match winners.

Anderson - Broad duo is good but IMO more focus should be on their spin department, especially Moin Ali.

Root 186 run innings helped England to reach the target of SL innings as they just trial now by 42 runs and 1 wicket left. England team is strong as well as balanced side and it will be a good contest when they play with India. India's advantage will be their home ground and will also team be highly motivated as young guys did impossible in Australia. Though out of those youngsters not sure how many will play against England but Seniors will be under pressure to perform as their position in team would just get be shaky if they do not do well in couple of matches else new players would be given chance now.

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Quote from: Vishnu.Reang on January 24, 2021, 07:01:18 AM

Quote from: JSRAW on January 24, 2021, 02:48:52 AM

Indian team almost unbeatable at home for quite some time and its calls it final frontier for a reason but records are meant to be broken that's what we learned in last week. Team India looking good but this England team is looks equally good and the way Joe Root making back 2 back 100s for fun, and James Anderson showing form by taking 6 wicket haul. Srilankans are light weight but still its a problem for India . We could expect fine game of cricket in coming weeks.

One thing I liked about the England team is that they scheduled the tour very intelligently. They are coming to India after a tour in Sri Lanka, which means that they will be acclimatized with the sub-continental conditions (the ground conditions in Sri Lanka are very similar to those in India). Also, they have two very experienced pacers in James Anderson and Stuart Broad, who have a combined total of 1100 plus test wickets.

Don't know if they strategically schedule Sri Lanka series or not but yeah it was good move from the ECB. . Srilankan were having hard time restricting Joe Root. I am hoping that Joe Root already ran out of all juice after 2 big tons Cheesy

otherwise he's going to be a big problem. Their opening pair is looking very bad atm but they have at least 5-6 fine match winners.

Anderson - Broad duo is good but IMO more focus should be on their spin department, especially Moin Ali.

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Quote from: JSRAW on January 24, 2021, 02:48:52 AM

Indian team almost unbeatable at home for quite some time and its calls it final frontier for a reason but records are meant to be broken that's what we learned in last week. Team India looking good but this England team is looks equally good and the way Joe Root making back 2 back 100s for fun, and James Anderson showing form by taking 6 wicket haul. Srilankans are light weight but still its a problem for India . We could expect fine game of cricket in coming weeks.

One thing I liked about the England team is that they scheduled the tour very intelligently. They are coming to India after a tour in Sri Lanka, which means that they will be acclimatized with the sub-continental conditions (the ground conditions in Sri Lanka are very similar to those in India). Also, they have two very experienced pacers in James Anderson and Stuart Broad, who have a combined total of 1100 plus test wickets.

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Quote from: Indymoney on January 23, 2021, 05:07:28 AM

Quote from: JSRAW on January 22, 2021, 11:10:21 PM

Teams for first 2 tests
-Kohli leading the team and Hardik is making comeback.
-Jadeja/Shami are injured.
-Axar Patel selection is bit confusing but Gill, Shardul, Siraj, Denzel Washington Sundar are reaping the rewards.
-Dan Lawrence is exciting name in the English squad, watch out for this young cricketer.

Kohli and Sharma back so look like they are going with full force and this is good for match but not good for selectors because now they have tough time many youngsters after very good tour of Australia now want to do good at home against England but 3 players back which bring some good number of changes Dan Lawrence is done good in first test hopefully he will also do some good in India as already understanding pitches in this part of world.

Indian team almost unbeatable at home for quite some time and its calls it final frontier for a reason but records are meant to be broken that's what we learned in last week. Team India looking good but this England team is looks equally good and the way Joe Root making back 2 back 100s for fun, and James Anderson showing form by taking 6 wicket haul. Srilankans are light weight but still its a problem for India . We could expect fine game of cricket in coming weeks.

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Quote from: ene1980 on January 23, 2021, 05:31:27 PM

If Australia wants to stay alive in the Test Championships then they need to white wash South Africa and there are some permutations and combinations as well, England needs to be dominated by India and it is expected like that and with all these aspects in place and if they still have the confidence to improve and win then it will be great.

South Africa did well against Sri Lanka recently, but then Australia is not a weak team like SL. But even then, it is not easy to whitewash them at home. Even after the loss of so many players to Kolpak and migration, South Africa has continuously produced young quality players. One that has risen recently is the 22-year old Wiaan Mulder. And with Anrich Nortje in such fine form, it is going to be a tough challenge for Australia to set up decent totals.

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Quote from: Indymoney on January 23, 2021, 03:49:43 PM

Australian's want to fight back after very poor display against India at home South African record in Pakistan is good currently Pakistani team facing some serious troubles so I am feeling this could be interesting series any one can win here.

If Australia wants to stay alive in the Test Championships then they need to white wash South Africa and there are some permutations and combinations as well, England needs to be dominated by India and it is expected like that and with all these aspects in place and if they still have the confidence to improve and win then it will be great.

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Quote from: SaShiRaJaVu on January 23, 2021, 02:02:56 PM

Quote from: UmerIdrees on January 23, 2021, 07:26:40 AM

South Africa tour of Pakistan will begin from 26 Jan, where they will play 2 test matches and 3 T20. It will be a great moment for the Pakistani for any quality team visiting Pakistan to play the series. Since South Africa and the home team are not in such good form, we may see tight matches between the two teams.

The men's team is touring Pakistan? i heard the women's team is touring, i thought the next series for South Africa was against Australia as all the reports were about the Australian tour of South Africa where they need to win the series to get a place in the Test championship final.

It will be interesting to see how Pakistan will perform in their home turf against a team like South Africa who always perform poorly against quality spin and i wonder what are the spin options for Pakistan in this series.

Currently we have two tours one in by Pakistani Womens in South Africa and second is South African men in Pakistan they are going to play first test in Karachi on 27th January 2021 after this tour Australia is also touring South Africa as today I read both boards are ok with this all going ahead for this crucial tour because Australian's want to fight back after very poor display against India at home South African record in Pakistan is good currently Pakistani team facing some serious troubles so I am feeling this could be interesting series any one can win here.

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Quote from: UmerIdrees on January 23, 2021, 07:26:40 AM

South Africa tour of Pakistan will begin from 26 Jan, where they will play 2 test matches and 3 T20. It will be a great moment for the Pakistani for any quality team visiting Pakistan to play the series. Since South Africa and the home team are not in such good form, we may see tight matches between the two teams.

The men's team is touring Pakistan? i heard the women's team is touring, i thought the next series for South Africa was against Australia as all the reports were about the Australian tour of South Africa where they need to win the series to get a place in the Test championship final.

It will be interesting to see how Pakistan will perform in their home turf against a team like South Africa who always perform poorly against quality spin and i wonder what are the spin options for Pakistan in this series.

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Quote from: Indymoney on January 22, 2021, 12:02:29 PM

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SL off to good start in second test against England and at the end of the day they are 229/4. Despite the bad start where they lost 2 wickets for just 7 wickets, they came back strongly with Matthews not out with century and Chandimal got out at 52. If they can manage to play majority day tomorrow, they would be 400+ which will be a good score and just to put some pressure on England in their innings if they can pick coupe of quick wickets.

Its look like now time for Sri Lanka to do better then first test as this is good ground for them and they can built very good total with the help of Mathews and Dickwella if these both stays for some more time then surely they are going to be in front as Galle is never been good for England going under runs of 350+ is also very bad for them but still its just first day we have to watch for some more time how they play after winning first test very good.

SL did well to reach close to 400 but Dickwella missed his century by 8 runs. Good support from Perera too of 67 runs helped them to reach this score. SL bowlers did the fabulous start by picking both openers for just score of 5 on scorecard. Bairstow and Root partnership has helped England to reach 98/2 at end of day and if this partnership survives first hour of tomorrow play then would become difficult for SL to take a big lead from first innings.

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South Africa tour of Pakistan will begin from 26 Jan, where they will play 2 test matches and 3 T20. It will be a great moment for the Pakistani for any quality team visiting Pakistan to play the series. Since South Africa and the home team are not in such good form, we may see tight matches between the two teams.

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Quote from: Indymoney on January 23, 2021, 05:07:28 AM

Quote from: JSRAW on January 22, 2021, 11:10:21 PM

Teams for first 2 tests
-Kohli leading the team and Hardik is making comeback.
-Jadeja/Shami are injured.
-Axar Patel selection is bit confusing but Gill, Shardul, Siraj, Denzel Washington Sundar are reaping the rewards.
-Dan Lawrence is exciting name in the English squad, watch out for this young cricketer.

Kohli and Sharma back so look like they are going with full force and this is good for match but not good for selectors because now they have tough time many youngsters after very good tour of Australia now want to do good at home against England but 3 players back which bring some good number of changes Dan Lawrence is done good in first test hopefully he will also do some good in India as already understanding pitches in this part of world.

Rohit Sharma was already part of the squad that played with Australia. Virat had taken a leave and was supposed to join back the team before the series starts. The good news is that many youngsters have been given a chance in this squad. I think this team should dominate the upcoming series.

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Quote from: JSRAW on January 22, 2021, 11:10:21 PM

Teams for first 2 tests
-Kohli leading the team and Hardik is making comeback.
-Jadeja/Shami are injured.
-Axar Patel selection is bit confusing but Gill, Shardul, Siraj, Denzel Washington Sundar are reaping the rewards.
-Dan Lawrence is exciting name in the English squad, watch out for this young cricketer.

Kohli and Sharma back so look like they are going with full force and this is good for match but not good for selectors because now they have tough time many youngsters after very good tour of Australia now want to do good at home against England but 3 players back which bring some good number of changes Dan Lawrence is done good in first test hopefully he will also do some good in India as already understanding pitches in this part of world.

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Quote from: 7788bitcoin on January 19, 2021, 02:21:38 AM

I am shocked by the way in which India counter attacked, i thought they will look to draw the match, now they just need 24 runs to win the match and 6 more overs minimum to go and this Test series just established why 5 day match is necessary rather than reducing the days. It is one of the most nerve racking series in a very long time as both team battled it out and a huge respect to all the Indian players as they fought till the end.

That was one of the most remarkable win by India. No one was expecting india to win this match but they really played aggressively for the win. Also this is the first win by the India in the Brisbane. Really loved to see the fearless india team crushing Australians and getting hold of the series.

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Teams for first 2 tests
-Kohli leading the team and Hardik is making comeback.
-Jadeja/Shami are injured.
-Axar Patel selection is bit confusing but Gill, Shardul, Siraj, Denzel Washington Sundar are reaping the rewards.
-Dan Lawrence is exciting name in the English squad, watch out for this young cricketer.

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