[Lord Snooty]

May
8-10, v Essex, Chelmsford - Match drawn Scorecard
13-15, v Leicestershire, Leicester - Match drawn Scorecard
19-23, 1st Test, Headingley (11:00 BST) - England won by an innings and 88 runs Scorecard
27-31, 2nd Test, Chester-le-Street (11:00 BST) - England won by 9 wickets Scorecard

June
9-13, 3rd Test, Lord's (11:00 BST) - Match drawn Scorecard
16, 1st ODI v Ireland, Dublin (Malahide) (10:45 BST) - Sri Lanka won by 76 runs (D/L) Scorecard
18, 2nd ODI v Ireland, Dublin (Malahide) (10:45 BST) - Sri Lanka won by 136 runs Scorecard
21, 1st ODI, Trent Bridge (d/n) (14:00 BST) - Match tied Scorecard
24, 2nd ODI, Edgbaston (d/n) (14:00 BST) - England won by 10 wickets Scorecard
26, 3rd ODI, Bristol (09:30 BST) - No result Scorecard
29, 4th ODI, The Oval (d/n) (13:00 BST) - England won by 6 wickets (D/L) Scorecard

July
2, 5th ODI, Cardiff (09:30 BST) - England won by 122 runs Scorecard
5, Twenty20 international, Southamption (d/n) (18:30 BST) - England won by 8 wickets Scorecard


England squad for first Test: Alastair Cook (capt), Moeen Ali, James Anderson, Jonny Bairstow (wk), Jake Ball, Stuart Broad, Nick Compton, Steven Finn, Alex Hales, Joe Root, Ben Stokes, James Vince.

Sri Lanka Test squad: Dushmantha Chameera, Dinesh Chandimal (vice-capt, wk), Dhananjaya de Silva, Niroshan Dickwella (wk), Shaminda Eranga, Rangana Herath, Dimuth Karunaratne, Suranga Lakmal, Angelo Mathews (capt), Kusal Mendis (wk), Dilruwan Perera, Nuwan Pradeep, Dhammika Prasad, Dasun Shanaka, Kaushal Silva (wk), Milinda Siriwardana, Lahiru Thirimanne.

[Lord Snooty]

England v Sri Lanka

The 1st Test Match

Thursday May 19th - Monday May 23rd

at Headingley
starting at 11:00

Teams news (from Cricinfo)


Alastair Cook confirmed his XI on Wednesday and there are just two changes to the England team that was roundly thumped in Centurion at the end of the South Africa series, with James Vince making his Test introduction and Steven Finn fit to reclaim his place from Chris Woakes. That means no debut for Nottinghamshire's highly rated seamer Jake Ball.


England 1 Alastair Cook ©, 2 Alex Hales, 3 Nick Compton, 4 Joe Root, 5 James Vince, 6 Ben Stokes, 7 Jonny Bairstow (w), 8 Moeen Ali, 9 Stuart Broad, 10 Steven Finn, 11 James Anderson.

The major question marks for Sri Lanka hover over No. 7 and the make-up of the pace attack. Kaushal Silva will return to opener, after missing the New Zealand tour, while Dinesh Chandimal looks likely to keep the gloves and bat four. Dasun Shanaka's century against Leicestershire, and his ability to bowl seam-up, may win him a Test debut in the allrounder's spot; Dhammika Prasad's injury reduces their bowling options, with the four other seamers in the party having played once each so far, to underwhelming effect.


Sri Lanka (probable) 1 Dimuth Karunaratne, 2 Kaushal Silva, 3 Kusal Mendis, 4 Dinesh Chandimal (w), 5 Angelo Mathews ©, 6 Milinda Siriwardana, 7 Dasun Shanaka, 8 Rangana Herath, 9 Dushmantha Chameera, 10 Shaminda Eranga/Nuwan Pradeep 11 Suranga Lakmal

[Lord Snooty]

SL win the toss and put England in.

Scorecard

[Lord Snooty]

What happened there? I left the room for a couple of minutes when Cook was out at 49-1. Come back to see Root walking off at 51-3.

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Lunch 57-3

[jjamez]

hales batted well, restrained himself and played the conditions, deserves to go onto 100. he will have chance in the future to go and play expansive and aggressive like david warner etc.

compton must be feeling a lot more heat, theres going to be more of a claim for a younger individual to come in and take his place, it might be roy and see vince move quickly up to 3 or it could be moeen and get rashid in down at 8

[Lord Snooty]

Day 1 close 171-5.

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Bairstow has now caught Hales up. Both on 73.

[Lord Snooty]

Hales steady away. Gets to 86 then has a wild slog at Herath and is out.

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224-6

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Collapsio. Bairstow still on 97. 8 wickets down.

[jjamez]

Collapse. Average boeen gone. Dropped too. Hopefully.

[Lord Snooty]

Bairstow gone for 140.

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Finn stumped. All out for 298.

[Lord Snooty]

Norra bad start. Three darn fer twelve runs. All caught by Jonny Bear's toe.