Sri Lanka's tour of England 2016

**Lord Snooty** · (This post was last modified: 21-06-2016, 22:31 by Lord Snooty.)

England v Sri Lanka

The 3rd Test Match

Thursday June 9th - Tuesday June 13

at Lord's
starting at 11:00

Scorecard

Toss: England win and bat first.

England unchanged.

England 1 Alastair Cook (capt), 2 Alex Hales, 3 Nick Compton, 4 Joe Root, 5 James Vince, 6 Jonny Bairstow (wk), 7 Moeen Ali, 8 Chris Woakes, 9 Stuart Broad, 10 Steven Finn, 11 James Anderson

Sri Lanka 1 Dimuth Karunaratne, 2 Kaushal Silva, 3 Kusal Mendis, 4 Dinesh Chandimal (wk), 5 Angelo Mathews (capt), 6 Lahiru Thirimanne, 7 Kusal Perera, 8 Rangana Herath, 9 Suranga Lakmal, 10 Shaminda Eranga, 11 Nuwan Pradeep

**Lord Snooty** · (This post was last modified: 09-06-2016, 14:01 by Lord Snooty.)

Good start. First half century opening partnership of the series, but then Hales and now Compton both gone.
Here cometh the Rootmaster.

FFS. Bloody technology! Root given out LBW following a review. Sad

Lunch 74-3

**Lord Snooty** · 09-06-2016, 16:36

Cook out for 85

**Lord Snooty** · 09-06-2016, 19:39

And yet another century for Jonny Bairstow.

Close day 1: Eng 279-6

**Lord Snooty** · (This post was last modified: 10-06-2016, 20:45 by Lord Snooty.)

CLOSE DAY 2:

England 416

Sri Lanka 162/1 (49.0 ov)
Sri Lanka trail by 254 runs with 9 wickets remaining in the 1st innings

**Lord Snooty** · 11-06-2016, 13:02

Good bowling in the first hour this morning from Woakes and Broad.

3 wickets for just 15 runs in the first hour.

**Lord Snooty** · 11-06-2016, 14:03

Lunch SL 218-6

That's 56-5 this morning

**Lord Snooty** · 11-06-2016, 16:27

288 all out

**Lord Snooty** · 12-06-2016, 23:33

Close day 4:
England 416 & 233/7d

Sri Lanka 288 & 32/0 (12.0 ov)
Sri Lanka require another 330 runs with 10 wickets remaining

jjamez · 13-06-2016, 00:16

Cook pulled out a reverse sweep, an attempted scoop and also hit a six. The mans gonna be back in the odi fold...!