TDK's International Test Cricket Update's

[The Dark Knight]

The first test between England and Sri Lanka in Manchester starts tonight.

England- Lawrence, Duckett, Pope (C), Root, Brook, Smith, Woakes, Atkinson, Potts, Wood, Bashir.
Stokes out with a hamstring injury while playing in the Hundred and Crawley broke his finger in the third test against the Windies.

Sri Lanka- Karunaratne, Madushka, Kusal Mendis, Mathews, Chandimal, Dhananjaya de Silva (C), Kamindu Mendis, Jayasuria, A. Fernando, V. Fernando, Rathnayake

SL batting first.

[Brodlach]

On Foxtel too

[The Dark Knight]

Mathews Shoulders Arms and is plumb LBW, that's a shocker. SL 3/6, lost 3/0 oh boy.

[Armchair expert]

Bring back the Windies!

[Brodlach]

Might be over today

[The Dark Knight]

Bring back the Windies!

And here I am thinking this will be a more even contest with SL having a decent batting line up, Karunaratne, Mathews, Chandimal and Dhananjaya de Silva all average over 40 from 50+ tests each.

[The Dark Knight]

Stumps day one
SL 236, not terrible after their start and being 7/113.
de Silva 74
Rathnayake 72 (highest score by a number 9 on debut)
Woakes 3/32
Bashir 3/55

England 0/22

[locky801]

Pakistan Vs Bangladesh

Pakistan after being 3/16 now 4/294
Rizwan 110*
Shakeel 103*

[locky801]

Stumps day one
SL 236, not terrible after their start and being 7/113.
de Silva 74
Rathnayake 72 (highest score by a number 9 on debut)
Woakes 3/32
Bashir 3/55

England 0/22

Interesting last 80 minutes played in bad light.

Last 15 overs of SL innings they faced the spinners and the 4 over Engl faced also from spinners due to bad light.

Cudos to both captains for playing on after umpires had suggested they call it quits early

Gotta love the light metres these days, they place them on the top of the stumps at either end to get a reading

[The Dark Knight]

Stumps day one
SL 236, not terrible after their start and being 7/113.
de Silva 74
Rathnayake 72 (highest score by a number 9 on debut)
Woakes 3/32
Bashir 3/55

England 0/22

Interesting last 80 minutes played in bad light.

Last 15 overs of SL innings they faced the spinners and the 4 over Engl faced also from spinners due to bad light.

Cudos to both captains for playing on after umpires had suggested they call it quits early

Gotta love the light metres these days, they place them on the top of the stumps at either end to get a reading

When I read that and watched the highlights this morning I thought it wasn't the worst result for SL having to open with spin, they're at least forced to try something different to counteract Bazball.

[locky801]

Stumps day one
SL 236, not terrible after their start and being 7/113.
de Silva 74
Rathnayake 72 (highest score by a number 9 on debut)
Woakes 3/32
Bashir 3/55

England 0/22

Interesting last 80 minutes played in bad light.

Last 15 overs of SL innings they faced the spinners and the 4 over Engl faced also from spinners due to bad light.

Cudos to both captains for playing on after umpires had suggested they call it quits early

Gotta love the light metres these days, they place them on the top of the stumps at either end to get a reading

When I read that and watched the highlights this morning I thought it wasn't the worst result for SL having to open with spin, they're at least forced to try something different to counteract Bazball.

Waiting with interst to see how the pitch plays today, some balls basically rolled yesterday

[Brodlach]

Was an odd pitch considering it was in Manchester

[locky801]

Was an odd pitch considering it was in Manchester

There was some pretty interesting sized cracks shown at the initial pitch report

[Brodlach]

Rain

[The Dark Knight]

Stumps day one
SL 236, not terrible after their start and being 7/113.
de Silva 74
Rathnayake 72 (highest score by a number 9 on debut)
Woakes 3/32
Bashir 3/55

England 0/22

Interesting last 80 minutes played in bad light.

Last 15 overs of SL innings they faced the spinners and the 4 over Engl faced also from spinners due to bad light.

Cudos to both captains for playing on after umpires had suggested they call it quits early

Gotta love the light metres these days, they place them on the top of the stumps at either end to get a reading

When I read that and watched the highlights this morning I thought it wasn't the worst result for SL having to open with spin, they're at least forced to try something different to counteract Bazball.

Waiting with interst to see how the pitch plays today, some balls basically rolled yesterday

Poor Chandimal would of never expected the delivery he got on a day one English wicket.

[locky801]

Rain

Bloody pommy weather, think i can still say that

[Armchair expert]

Rain

Bloody pommy weather, think i can still say that

nup you're cancelled

[locky801]

Pakistan Vs Bangladesh

Pakistan 6/448d
Rizwan 171*
Shakeel 141

Bangladesh 2/115

[locky801]

England Vs Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka 236

England 6/259
Smith 72*
Brook 56
Root 42
A Fernando 3/68

[The Dark Knight]

Rain in Manchester and Sri Lanka had been building a lead, Mendis (90*) and Chandimal (57*) have put on 85 and SL lead by 153, currently 6/275.