Sri Lanka to play warm-up matches at Old Trafford Daily News (via HT Media Ltd.)
The Sri Lanka Cricket Team will play two Intra-Squad practice matches on June 18 and 20 at the Old Trafford Cricket Grounds in Manchester.
The 24-member Sri Lanka Squad led by Kusal Perera reached Manchester on June 9 and completed their three-day quarantine period at the hotel.
The Sri Lanka Team is scheduled to leave for Cardiff on June 20 ahead of the first T20 International against England on June 23.
After the three-match T20I series the two teams will figure in three One Day Internationals (ODIs) commencing on June 29.
Sri Lanka Falls to a 2-0 Test Defeat Against England
Sri Lanka fell to a 2-0 test series defeat against
England as the team’s poor start to 2021 continues. Sri Lanka captain
Dimuth Karunaratne now has five months to rally his troops and get The Lions back to winning ways.
The Lions’ last victory came in late-February early March in the One Day International series against the
West Indies. Sri Lanka won the series 3-0 and looked back to their brilliant best. The joy of winning turned to despair in the T20 clashes again the Windies, however, with Sri Lanka falling to a 2-0 defeat.
Joe Root defies heat, back spasms and Sri Lanka s spinners to keep England alive
England captain is finally dismissed for 186 but will need greater support from his team-mates in India
24 January 2021 • 1:43pm
Root was cruelly run out, 14 short of another double century
Joe Root was so tired that England should have arranged for one of the tuk-tuks that chugs past the Galle Stadium and into the fort to ferry him back to the dressing room as he dragged himself off after another marathon innings.
Root’s legs were weary, his whites soaked in sweat and dirt, and his shoulders slumped in exhaustion after he was run out for 186 in a one-man stand that kept England in the Test at 339 for nine.
107th
over: England 325-6 (Root 177, Bess 26) Root takes a single to backward square then Bess edges to a similar area; he fancies two but is advised thereâll be no such thing by his frankly malingering captain.
âI am beyond baffled about all the talk regarding Bairstow in the last week,â says David Reynolds. âBetween his last test century, which was in Sri Lanka, and the start of this series, he averaged 18.4 in 20 test innings, with a highest score of 52 and numerous gormless dismissals (including many costly ones in the Ashes). Then he gets 47, 35 not out, and 28 in this series, and heâs being talked about in the press as undroppable? This is absurd.â
Mark Wood and James Anderson dig deep to keep England in touch on a Galle road
In unrelenting heat, England s pace bowlers worked their socks off to keep the touring side in contention on the flattest of pitches
22 January 2021 • 12:39pm
Mark Wood earns his reward during a gruelling eight-over spell of blistering pace in searing heat and stifling humidity
Credit: Sri Lanka Cricket
“I joked with bowling coach Jon Lewis I might be here until 2054 bowling from that Fort End and have none for 3,000 so it is nice to at least have a one-fer. It might just be one for 3,000 now,” he said.