England Lions vs Sri Lanka Match Thread

morgan filling his boots here

good lad. He's playing a blinder. Don't forget about Patel as well. A great supporting knock of 61 at the moment. Pleased for him.

Century up for Morgan. Well played. Patel going along nicely too.

And its a century for the Morgster!! Good lad. Now Patel can go on and get a century as well.

5000 first class runs for Patel. Lets see if he can get to the century before close today...

Fair play to moggy a brilliant ton under pressure but dnt forget taylor's performance.
Taylor still my 1st choice

> I'm not that clued up on this Sri Lankan side, are they
> pretty much full strength as they appear to me, with the
> exception of Mendis and possibly another seamer?

It is a full strength side, with all the strength in the batting department. With Murali having retired, sans Malinga and Mendis bowling filth, they are woefully short in bowling.

Not watching the game, but these are cheap runs being scored.

Taylor would still be my first choice.

KP's got a 50. Looks like our batsmen are coming into some form.

Ton for Patel. Maybe an outsider for the place? Who am I kidding, the place will have been allocated weeks ago.

This is really grim. A first choice test attack wins the toss, elects to bowl on a pitch which presumably had something, and then goes for about 400 for not too many at 4.5 runs per over. Against an 'A' team, for god's sake.

Sri Lanka would be better off batting first if they win the toss in the test matches.