Sri Lanka 275 & 218-6. England 460. Stumps Late wickets are great. So long as you haven’t already written the majority of your daily roundup. Day four was still a pretty frustrating day for England though. We toiled. We did our best. We missed Monty. Our main mistake, however, was not employing a sniper to shoot Mahela Jayawardene in the leg before the start of play. Scratch that. Our main mistake this series was not employing a sniper to shoot Mahela Jayawardene in the leg two weeks ago...
Honours even? Yeah right – Day one in Colombo
Sri Lanka 238-6 stumps You don’t have to be Columbo to work out that Colombo test matches are usually uphill struggles for English teams. It doesn’t help when you lose the toss on a pitch that is already going through the top. When I turned my TV on at 7.30 this morning, I was praying that we’d be batting. When I saw Jimmy Anderson running into bowl my heart sank. My pessimistic side told me that we were bound to lose already – even though only one session had been completed. As always, the...
