PAUL M wrote:
Struggled to bowl them out, just hope we bat well or it could be embarrassing.
If Anderson has suspected back and side issues why did he come in as night watchman?
It sounds like he won't be able to bowl in their second innings, so we're down to two fast bowlers with no seam back-up of any note at all, given how seldom Trott & Bell bowl these days. This has been an accident waiting to happen for too long, but at least we had Collingwood in the past, and it's exactly why I felt Bopara should have been preferred to Morgan in the first place. (Aside from the fact that he knuckled down to playing first class cricket over here instead of swanning off to the IPL.) In fact given the strength of Sri Lanka's batting and weakness of bowling we could probably have picked five specialist bowlers and moved Prior into the top six regardless of any danger of a bowler getting crocked.
There must be a good chance England can bat all day today and get a lead of 200 or so, but will we have the firepower to force a win on the final day? I suppose if the weather remains iffy it will all be a bit irrelevant anyway.
