In all fairness sri lanka could have done a lot more to get their guys redy. The ecb do that for England during ashes tours and tours to the subcontinent normally.
You may ask how they could do it with it being early season, but in answer to that, counties warm up against university sides so they could easily have slotted in against a yorkshire or something along those lines, also they could have had a couple of 2/3 dayers against uni sides or a combined uni side etc. I wouldnt levy all the blame onto sky, they are very much culpable but the sri lankan board/organisers are not exemp.
As for stokes , apparently he's been ignoring captains orders at durham and bowling through the pain albeit a different injury but it hampened his build up to this test as he sat out training a lot.
Another note, I've noticed a lot of people dont rate woakes and consider him to be a county bowler. I think he is one of those that was mismanaged by previous regimes and its shown with how he bats & bowls at Warwickshire and also other players that have played for england.
It has been said that carberry was told to restrain himself on that dreadful ashes tour by flower instead of playing his natural game. Same has happened to a few players who have been told to change things. Farbrace said in an interview after the test that players are no longer told to do that and instead are told to play in the exact way that got them selected in the first place. No more telling a blocker to be aggressive or vice versa
You may ask how they could do it with it being early season, but in answer to that, counties warm up against university sides so they could easily have slotted in against a yorkshire or something along those lines, also they could have had a couple of 2/3 dayers against uni sides or a combined uni side etc. I wouldnt levy all the blame onto sky, they are very much culpable but the sri lankan board/organisers are not exemp.
As for stokes , apparently he's been ignoring captains orders at durham and bowling through the pain albeit a different injury but it hampened his build up to this test as he sat out training a lot.
Another note, I've noticed a lot of people dont rate woakes and consider him to be a county bowler. I think he is one of those that was mismanaged by previous regimes and its shown with how he bats & bowls at Warwickshire and also other players that have played for england.
It has been said that carberry was told to restrain himself on that dreadful ashes tour by flower instead of playing his natural game. Same has happened to a few players who have been told to change things. Farbrace said in an interview after the test that players are no longer told to do that and instead are told to play in the exact way that got them selected in the first place. No more telling a blocker to be aggressive or vice versa