[jjamez]

Chris woakes starts the second test

[Lord Snooty]

England v Sri Lanka

The 2nd Test Match

Friday May 27th - Wednesday May 31st

at Emirates Riverside, Chester-le-Street
starting at 11:00

Scorecard

England: Alastair Cook (capt), Alex Hales, Nick Compton, Joe Root, James Vince, Jonny Bairstow (wk), Moeen Ali, Chris Woakes, Stuart Broad, Steven Finn, James Anderson.

Sri Lanka: Dimuth Karunaratne, Kaushal Silva, Kusal Mendis, Dinesh Chandimal (wk), Angelo Mathews (capt), Lahiru Thirimanne, Milinda Siriwardana, Rangana Herath, Shaminda Eranga, Nuwan Pradeep Suranga Lakmal.

England won the toss and batted first.

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Cook out for 15

39-1

[Lord Snooty]

Close day 1: Eng 310-6

[Lord Snooty]

Close day 2:
Eng 498-9 Dec
SL 91-8

[jjamez]

Sri lanka all out for just over 100. England have enforced the follow on. At this rate we could rest a few of our bigger names in the 3rd test and give ball his debut and maybe have a look at borthwick again seeing as he also is scoring runs. Wont happen though

[Lord Snooty]

Doing better in the second innings though.

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162-3 at Tea.

[Lord Snooty]

Close day 3:
SL 309-5

Looks like Cooky might get a chance to score those five runs he needs for his 10,000 after all.

[Lord Snooty]

Cook has his 10,000 test runs. The youngest to reach this target.

England 498/9d & 36/1 (11.2 ov)
Sri Lanka 101 & 475 (f/o)
England require another 43 runs with 9 wickets remaining

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80-1

England win by 9 wickets

[jjamez]

England going into the final test with an unchanged squad

[Lord Snooty]

I think we should have a look at Ball, probably iin place of the out of form Finn. We need to find a replacement for Anderson. Not now obviously, but when he does retire that's gonna be a huge hole in the bowling unit.