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12-12-2014, 22:17
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Sri Lanka v England
The 6th ODI match
Saturday December 13th
at Pallekele International Cricket Stadium, Kandy.
starting at 10:00 local time, 04:30 GMT.
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The home side have called Dimuth Karunaratne into the squad and dropped Kusal Perera and Ajantha Mendis. Skipper Angelo Mathews has hinted that Suranga Lakmal and Lakshan Sandakan could get their chance.
The England team looks quite well balanced at the moment and would probably only be bettered if Alex Hales replaced Alistair Cook as opener. But with Cook being the inspirational leader, that is unlikely to happen. James Taylor has certainly justified his inclusion. More to the point is can the selectors justify their leaving him out for so long, when his form at Nottinghamshire has been exceptional.
Neither of these two teams look anywhere near good enough to win the World Cup next year. It has to be a straight choice between Australia and India, with the South Africans bottling it again. England's best hope is to avoid either of them and hope to make it as far as the semis. Can't see it myself, but you never know.
England squad: Alastair Cook ©, Moeen Ali, Ian Bell, Ravi Bopara, Jos Buttler (w), Steven Finn, Harry Gurney, Alex Hales, Chris Jordan, Eoin Morgan, Joe Root, Ben Stokes, James Taylor, James Tredwell, Chris Woakes.
Sri Lanka squad: Angelo Mathews ©, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Kumar Sangakkara (w), Mahela Jayawardena, Lahiru Thirimanne, Jeevan Mendis, Dilruwan Perera, Dhammika Prasad, Thisara Perera, Lahiru Gamage, Lakshan Sandakan, Ashan Priyanjan, Suranga Lakmal, Sachitra Senanayake, Dimuth Karunaratne.
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13-12-2014, 10:43
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SL 292-7 (50)
Cook out in the first over.
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13-12-2014, 11:57
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92-5 (19)
Making a mess of this.
Elsewhere, Australia beat India but Michael Clarke got injured again and by the sound of his press conference he may be calling time on his cricketing career.
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Sri Lanka v England
The 7th ODI match
Tuesday December 16th
at Ranasinghe Premadasa Stadium, Colombo.
starting at 14:30 local time, 09:00 GMT.
And so back to Colombo for the final match in this short tour. Having lost the series, which is in reality a World Cup warm up, England will be hoping to make it look an almost respectable 3-4 defeat rather than a hammered looking 2-5 defeat.
On this tour there have been a few good individual performances from the likes of Moeen Ali, Joe Root, James Taylor and Chris Woakes, but not enough evidence that the skipper Alistair Cook is going to show he is worthy of his place in the side or even that his vice captain Eoin Morgan is either. Could be a new broom required after the World Cup, when James Anderson and Stuart Broad will hopefully be back.
England squad: Alastair Cook ©, Moeen Ali, Ian Bell, Ravi Bopara, Jos Buttler (w), Steven Finn, Harry Gurney, Alex Hales, Chris Jordan, Eoin Morgan, Joe Root, Ben Stokes, James Taylor, James Tredwell, Chris Woakes.
Sri Lanka squad: Angelo Mathews ©, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Kumar Sangakkara (w), Mahela Jayawardena, Lahiru Thirimanne, Jeevan Mendis, Dilruwan Perera, Dhammika Prasad, Thisara Perera, Lahiru Gamage, Lakshan Sandakan, Ashan Priyanjan, Suranga Lakmal, Sachitra Senanayake, Dimuth Karunaratne.
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Garbage!
Sri Lanka 302-6 (50)
England 215 (45.5)
Sri Lanka won by 87 runs
Sri Lanka win the series 5-2
Fri Nov 21: v Sri Lanka A - Sinhalese Sports Club, Colombo - England won by 56 runs (D/L method) Scorecard
Sun Nov 23: v Sri Lanka A - Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu Stadium, Colombo - Match abandoned Scorecard
Weds Nov 26: 1st ODI v Sri Lanka - Ranasinghe Premadasa Stadium, Colombo - Sri Lanka won by 25 runs Scorecard
Sat Nov 29: 2nd ODI v Sri Lanka - Ranasinghe Premadasa Stadium, Colombo - Sri Lanka won by 8 wickets Scorecard
Wed Dec 3: 3rd ODI v Sri Lanka - Mahinda Rajapaksa International Cricket Stadium, Sooriyawewa, Hambantota - England won by 5 wickets Scorecard
Sun Dec 7: 4th ODI v Sri Lanka - Ranasinghe Premadasa Stadium, Colombo - Sri Lanka won by 6 wickets Scorecard
Wed Dec 10: 5th ODI v Sri Lanka - Pallekele International Cricket Stadium, Kandy - England won by 5 wickets Scorecard
Sat Dec 13: 6th ODI v Sri Lanka - Pallekele International Cricket Stadium, Kandy - Sri Lanka won by 90 runs Scorecard
Tue Dec 16: 7th ODI v Sri Lanka - Ranasinghe Premadasa Stadium, Colombo - Sri Lanka won by 87 runs Scorecard
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