England Cricket Tours 2018-19 (and everything off the field during that period)

killerandflash

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golfaddick said:

MrOneLung said:

I hope Sri Lanka havent spent the gate money already for this series !!!

are wee playing at this time of year because Sri Lanka wanted to, or because we insisted this is the only timeframe we have ?

According to the BBC site, its to do with the Body who organise all the fixtures. Sri Lanka have to go to NZ, OZ & then SA after our tour - first match of their tour is less than a week after ours finish.

Just stupid in my mind. Will be fun when the next tour over here starts in early March & games called off due to snow...........but it was organised because the "fixture people" think the Windies will want to see some of the white stuff (and that doesn't mean the ball)

They also now have to fit the fixture schedule around the IPL for fear of a player revolt!

And all the other T20 series...

Plus there's just been the Asia cup (which is one of the reasons the India Test series was so truncated)

cantersaddick

Riviera said:

MrOneLung said:

I hope Sri Lanka havent spent the gate money already for this series !!!

are wee playing at this time of year because Sri Lanka wanted to, or because we insisted this is the only timeframe we have ?

As stated earlier this was Sri Lanka's decision to play the ODI series now. They brought it forward from its original date. No idea why as the monsoon season is pretty reliable.

It was Sri Lanka's choice to swap the order of the tour (I.e. ODI's before tests) but the timing of the tour was down to the ECB's schedule.

Cafc43v3r

Time for the first ever international t21, or as the ecb have renamed it "the 166"

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GOOD NEWS from Kandy - we are set for a 21-over-a-side game with the toss to take place at 3.15pm. All being well, we will then start the match at 3.45pm

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England win the toss & bowl first. The team is the same. (Well Tom Curran in for Dawson).

killerandflash

Really hard to care about such a truncated and bitty series, especially as you expect the rain to reappear

blackpool72

Watching Tom Curren bowl his variety of slower balls you can see he's been learning from Dernbach.

Callumcafc

57-1 from 5.3 overs, first wicket for Curran

Pelling1993

good nut that from Rashid

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71-2 9 overs.

Rashid took the 2nd.

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94-3 12.2 overs.
2nd wicket for Rashid.

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94-4

2 in 2 for Rashid.

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107-4 15 overs.

Addick Addict

Good to see Stokes resisting the temptation to punch the boundary marker - really don't know what it had done to upset him.

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110-5

Wicket for Curran.

killerandflash

Rashid has become a really good white ball bowler

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138-6 19 overs.
Another for Rashid.

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146-7 19.5
Run out.

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150-8 20.4

Curran's wicket.

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150-9 21 overs

Another run out.

Addick Addict

Chandimal made just 34 off 42 balls and only hit two boundaries - that's a third of their innings!

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19-1 2 overs.
Bairstow out.

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34-2 3.5 overs.
Root out.

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48-2 6 overs.

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80-3 9 overs

Roy out 41. Off to the trust meeting now.

Rudders22

England win by 7 wickets.... 153-3

redman

2-0 up with 1 to play.

oohaahmortimer

redman said:

2-0 up with 1 to play.

Even Charlton couldn't blow that lead

redman

redman said:

2-0 up with 1 to play.

oops correction, there are 2 to play!

MrOneLung

Not England but didnt know where else to post this.

Run out in the Pak v Aus test in Dubai


https://www.reddit.com/r/Cricket/comments/9p79a6/that_run_out_in_better_quality/