Bowling to nissanka who completed the second hundred of his test career. Were england weary in this test match, at time they looked it. Were they complacent, they will definitely deny that. There always be definite ups than downs with their style of test match cricket, maybe this will be a sobering defeat for them as they try to develop a ruthless streak that was definitely missing in this test match. In test match cricket in places like sri lanka, well maybe this victory in the broader scheme of things is just what cricket needs. Well, england had the victory in their sights, in what was a topsy turvy match with stand in captain ollie pope s heroics from the first innings. He knows that his england side let this one slip through. We played some really good cricket through the summer but could not put it together over the four days here after two days we were in a good position and did not capitalise and unfortunately with the bat we were not good enough yesterday and should have had
Were england weary in this test match, at times they looked it. Were they complacent, they will definitely deny that. There will always be ups and downs with their style of test match cricket, maybe this will be a sobering defeat for them as they try to develop a ruthless streak that was definitely missing in this test match. In test match cricket in places like sri lanka, well maybe this victory in the broader scheme of things is just what cricket needs. Well, england had the victory in their sights, in what was a topsy turvy match with stand in captain ollie pope s heroics from the first innings. He knows that his england side let this one slip through. We played some really good cricket through the summer but couldn t put it together over the four days here after two days we were in a good position and did not capitalise and unfortunately with the bat we were not good enough and should have had a few more runs. We know the pitch at the oval gets better as a test match goes on, so