Sri Lankan cricket team efforts are much appreciable according to their performance of previous matches. The last match on 21st June 2016 (1st ODI) was in Sri Lanka’s hand till the second last ball of the second innings but in the meantime, Liam Plunkett’s last-ball six salvaged a dramatic tie. Sri Lanka got two victories against Ireland yet from England and Ireland tour they never won a single one against England. Sri Lanka needs more focus on their bowling only.
Watch Online Sri Lanka tour of England 2016 Complete HD Free Cricket Match Highlights Today 2nd ODI Eng v SL at Birmingham, Friday, June 24, 2016. In the second One-Day International (ODI) of the Royal London series versus Sri Lanka at Edgbaston, England stormed to an emphatic victory thanks to a record opening partnership. With 95 balls left, England won by 10 wickets thanks to centuries from Jason Roy and Alex Hales.
In their history of ODI matches, England has only won six times like this, and theirs is also the biggest score against any other team. This is the seventh occasion that Sri Lanka has lost an ODI by 10 wickets. Their stand was not just the most for any wicket in ODIs by England batsmen, surpassing the 200 partnership between Vikram Solanki and Marcus Tresocthick against South Africa in 2003, but also a record for the opening duo.
The record was previously held by Andrew Strauss and Jonathan Trott, who combined for a score of 250 here against Bangladesh in 2010. In ODI cricket, England has frequently suffered at the hands of Sri Lanka. With the exception of the 2006 ODI series, which Sri Lanka won 5-0 and in which they overcame England’s 321 at Leeds with 12.5 overs remaining, there have been significant and unforgettable losses in the previous two World Cups.
However, they showed with a devastatingly one-sided victory that the power dynamics may have changed at the scene where England’s ODI revolution began little over a year ago. This Sri Lankan team, bereft of the elite players they had become accustomed to, lacked the bowling power to stop England’s batters from romping to victory and the batting strength to take full advantage of a great surface.
It never seemed for a moment as though Sri Lanka had set a goal to compete. And while Hales and Roy played relatively calmly (taking 55 deliveries in their first fifty overs), the way they destroyed the Sri Lankan bowling once established was evocative of the punishment English bowlers used to receive from Sanath Jayasuiriya on a regular basis. They used a really hard, true wicket to skip down the pitch and drive over the top at one point.
Hitting four sixes in a row, with Hales pounding Seekkuga Prasanna for three sixes and two fours in five deliveries. With Roy scoring his maiden half-century in eight ODI innings and Hales scoring his sixth fifty-plus score (and second century) in seven consecutive ODIs, both players achieved their highest-ever ODI scores. After suffering three straight losses in South Africa and Tuesday’s draw at Trent Bridge, England has now won five ODIs.
Hales took just 36 balls for his second fifty, utilizing his reach to drive four of his sixes and slog-sweep two more. Roy, on the other hand, demonstrated both bat-speed and power with four consecutive sixes, taking 37 balls. The front-line spinners for Sri Lanka bore the brunt of the criticism after giving up 140 runs in 16.1 overs, which included eight sixes.
That made it very comprehensible why umpire Bruce Oxenford used an arm guard to shield his left arm in the event that a ball was thrown in his way. Hales created one obvious opportunity, with Danushka Gunathilaka missing a straightforward opportunity when the batsman had 126, but the game was already settled by that stage. Roy was the one who declared himself the man of the match. In addition to his century, he was instrumental in two run-outs.
At backward point, he first made a great catch and throw to dismiss the dangerous Kusal Perera by swooping down, picking up the ball with his left hand, moving it to his right, and hitting the stumps directly. Later, he made another excellent catch and throw to foil Dinesh Chandimal’s attempt to set himself up for an optimistic single. It was a component of England’s enhanced performance in the field.
Adil Rashid produced another masterful 10 overs of leg-spin (he has now conceded just 70 runs in 20 overs this series), while Jonny Bairstow dazzled the sold-out crowd with his outrageous pace and powerful throw as a boundary sweeper. David Willey held a brilliant catch at mid-on. Hales, at second slip, was unable to hold on to a tough chance offered by Gunathilaka off Chris Woakes on 5.
At mid-off, he looked to have misread the catch, unsure of whether to give it to Hales. However, at the eleventh hour, he pushed himself full length and managed to cling onto the ball. All of it meant that Sri Lanka hobbled to a total that always appeared well below par, both literally and figuratively. Before the toss, Angelo Mathews passed a fitness test, but he didn’t appear to be at his best.
Chandimal also needed on-field treatment after it seemed like he had a hamstring injury, which hindered both of their agility and pace between the wickets. Later on, Mathews was unable to bowl, and Perera took Chandimal’s spot behind the stumps when he was unable to hold wicket. The partnership put on 82 runs for the fourth wicket in 16 overs, comfortably the best stand of the Sri Lankan innings.
However, considering that England scored 408 runs in the previous One-Day International (ODI) played here (against New Zealand in June 2015), it always appeared too modest to be the game-winning score. They had to settle for 25 runs in a row gained by singles at one point. It may have been worse. When Sri Lanka was 191 for 7 in the 41st over, it looked like they could have trouble batting out their 50 overs.
However, a late comeback by seam-bowling all-rounder Dasun Shanaka’s replacement, Suraj Randiv, and Upul Tharanga, who was settling into his new role in the middle order, at least gave Sri Lanka a chance. In the final four overs of the innings, the two hit a blistering 44 runs, with Tharanga scoring a half-century off of 46 balls (five fours and a six) and Randiv running, squirting.
Paddling his way to 26 off 27 balls. Following their victory, England has an unstoppable 13-3 lead in the Super Series. There are a maximum of eight points up for grabs in the remaining games of the series, which consist of three ODIs and one T20I.
Sri Lanka team: MDKJ Perera, MD Gunathilaka, BKG Mendis, LD Chandimal†, AD Mathews*, S Prasanna, WU Tharanga, MF Maharoof, RAS Lakmal, N Pradeep, S Randiv.
England team: JJ Roy, AD Hales, JE Root, EJG Morgan*, JM Bairstow, JC Buttler†, MM Ali, CR Woakes, DJ Willey, LE Plunkett, AU Rashid.
Match Timings: 14:00 local time (13:00 GMT)
Who won the toss between SL v ENG 24 June: Sri Lanka win the toss and bat
Venue: Edgbaston, Birmingham
ODI no. 3753 | 2016 season
Played at Edgbaston, Birmingham
24 June 2016 – day/night match (50-over match)
Umpires – MA Gough and BNJ Oxenford
TV umpire – PR Reiffel
Match referee – DC Boon
Reserve umpire – RT Robinson
Sri Lanka 254/7 50 overs
England 256/0 34.1 overs
England won by 10 wickets (with 95 balls remaining)
