Second T20 tonight against Sri Lanka is live on BBC 2 from 18:00.England won the first match yesterday by 8 wickets.

Grand, I pretty much missed the first one because of the footy, look forward to catching this one. Hopefully a decent game- weather looks decent down in Cardiff.

Comfortable win for England last night, and a great knock from Jos, you'd expect more of the same tonight as England just look in a different league to Sri Lanka in this format.

Sri Lanka look a poor outfit

ClaretTony wrote: ↑

Thu Jun 24, 2021 1:09 pm

Sri Lanka look a poor outfit

Yes they do, however India will be a completely different proposition, and how England fare against a side of their quality will give us more of an idea of our prospects for the upcoming T20 WC.

tiger76 wrote: ↑

Thu Jun 24, 2021 1:13 pm

Yes they do, however India will be a completely different proposition, and how England fare against a side of their quality will give us more of an idea of our prospects for the upcoming T20 WC.

India will be tough. Amazing how SL have dropped but not so long ago they had a team full of top players who have all now retired.

Sri Lanka looked very poor with the bat for the majority of what I saw

ClaretTony wrote: ↑

Thu Jun 24, 2021 1:09 pm

Sri Lanka look a poor outfit

Clear to see why they’re ranked 8th. The gulf in class was huge yesterday and should expect more of the same tonight.

Sri Lanka win toss and bat first, Buttler & Woakes out for England, Billings and Willey come in, this just illustrates the strength in depth which England now possess.

Jimmy part of the BBC commentary team this evening.

Wicket for England already, and a run out to boot, great work in the field by Sam Curran.

15-1 after 3.

68-3 in the 13th, SL need to get a move on here if they're going to set any kind of target.

BBC commentary is amateur .....

We have had a ‘Sam’ Livingstone catch and a stumping by Buttler
(who is not even playing)

Tuffters stick to a QofS

This is pathetic from SL, they'll be lucky to post 3 figures at this rate, truly one-sided contest, the only thing England can take out of these games is it's effectively a warm up for the tougher tests that lie ahead.

Vaughan who is the main ambassador for The Hundred saying that the T20 format is not fast enough .... anyway back to the Stat Cave ....WTF

BBC not showing number of overs bowled ..... just
a P for power play .......awful coverage.

Flixton Claret wrote: ↑

Thu Jun 24, 2021 8:34 pm

BBC not showing number of overs bowled ..... just
a P for power play .......awful coverage.

???

Flixton Claret wrote: ↑

Thu Jun 24, 2021 8:01 pm

Vaughan who is the main ambassador for The Hundred saying that the T20 format is not fast enough .... anyway back to the Stat Cave ....WTF

There's room for the T20 or The Hundred in the game, but there isn't run for both, unless the CC is dispensed with, and I wouldn't completely rule that out from happening over the next few years as the shorter forms of the game take precedence, now whether that's better for the game is up for debate, but that's the way it's heading I'm afraid.

Meanwhile a couple of early scalps for SL, 10-2 Bairstow & Malan back in the hutch, you just can't rely on these Yorkies can you, even the fake ones are no use.

The used pitch playing a role maybe, but even allowing for that the batting on both sides has been terrible.

England should still coast home though 112 isn't a difficult target with the depth of batting we have.

Bosscat wrote: ↑

Thu Jun 24, 2021 8:38 pm

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Not on my telly .....

required runs and balls remaining on my telly

morgan gone now

Roy gone

Next!!

36-4. Roy gone.

Could be a good finish this.

Yes England making hard work of what should be an easy chase, terrible shot by the skipper. why is it always the worst deliveries which often take the wickets.

Roy gone now, what is going on. 36-4.

karatekid wrote: ↑

Thu Jun 24, 2021 8:47 pm

required runs and balls remaining on my telly

I’d rather have overs bowled especially after 8 overs the
Required runs and balls remaining only comes into play
in the later stages .....

I'd much rather see a low scoring game that goes to the wire than a high-scoring but one-sided affair.

Cardiff not doing the BBC any favours by producing this pitch.

rsp

Derbyshire done well against Brummies tonight too

Bordeauxclaret wrote: ↑

Thu Jun 24, 2021 9:10 pm

Cardiff not doing the BBC any favours by producing this pitch.

It's the same pitch they played on yesterday, but it can't have deteriorated that quickly surely, they've only bowled about 70 overs on it.

Rain stops play, I assume England are ahead on D/L but it's not always easy to tell.

It'll be a shame if they don't get back out could still be a close finish with another wicket or two for SL.

I see the birds are flocking around the Burnley Express

Rain stops play, I assume England are ahead on D/L but it's not always easy to tell.

Aye England were shown as being 3/4 ahead at the start of that over that they came off (if I saw that correctly).

coming back on

34 needed off 6 overs that should be simple from here, and arguably the rain delay has marginally favoured England, though we'd probably have won fairly comfortably anyway, at least Sri Lanka have made a game of this tonight, and they've managed to restore some pride if nothing else.

Three balls of absolute village from Billings there.

The 4 LBs and good previous over should see that it isn't too costly

Buttler won it last night, Livingstone tonight...... Meanwhile, Cymbals Barstow got a duck, and one of Yorkshire's many cockneys, Malan, scored 4.

Good knock by Livingstone to see England over the line, and he mist have gone up the pecking order as regards WC selection.

Had that sinking feeling at first thinking it was only on BBC2, then happily seen it was on Sky and was spared the bitter dickhead Vaughan

Not a bad game, more even than the 1st one Sri Lanka poor again though with the bat

England batting 1st in the 3rd and final T20, decent start 22-0 after 4.

102/0 after 11.1 overs, Bairstow 51 & Malan 42

Shouldn’t have posted that.

105/1 - Bairstow gone got 51

Yorkies batting well in a dead rubber.

143/2 from 15.1, Livingstone out for 14

148/3 from 16.2, Billings gone for 2

All going well until I started posting

151/4 from 17 overs, Morgan out got 1, Malan 73*

Suspect they already have enough

162/5 from 18.3, Malan out for 76.

Should be enough but should have scored a lot more. Chameera come on and taken 3-16.

And 162/6 from 18.5, Moeen out for 7.

Chameera finished with 4 for 17.

Good last over and finished on 180/6.

Looks like Chameera is going to be a class act.