Eng 44/6, 23 ov

**Tehsin** · #1 November 18, 2003, 05:16 AM

We took a grand total of 9 wickets in 3 ODIs and SriLanka aready took 6 for only 44 and they have much more to play for.

*sigh*

chinaman · #2 November 18, 2003, 06:18 AM

We are not the Lankan and that pitch is known to be a bowler's paradise. The weather is wet too.

chinaman · #3 November 18, 2003, 06:32 AM

Eng: 88/10 Ouch!

chinaman · #4 November 18, 2003, 07:25 AM

At dinner break, the Lankan stands tall at 26/0 after 5 overs.

chinaman · #5 November 18, 2003, 08:01 AM

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England were shot down by Sri Lanka for 88, the equal second-lowest score in their 386-match one-day history.

Vaughan's face looks familiar, perhaps he learnt the art of sadness from Shujon.

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chinaman · #6 November 18, 2003, 08:19 AM

Who wants to be on the pitch standing with a bat whole day when you have treats back in the pavillion.

England captain Michael Vaughan watches from the pavillion his team's performance during the one-day international between England and Sri Lanka in Dambulla November 18, 2003. REUTERS/Arko Datta

chinaman · #7 November 18, 2003, 08:24 AM

End of over 13 (17 runs) Sri Lanka 83/0

Ouch, ouch.

chinaman · #8 November 18, 2003, 08:33 AM

Sri Lanka win by 10 wickets!

Nobody beats even Bangladesh within 14 overs!

fwullah · #9 November 18, 2003, 08:50 AM

What do you reckon? I think that if we had let England bat first in 1 of our 3 ODIs, then probably we could have restricted them to a 250 total in 50 overs?

Ofcourse, getting to 200 (notice 200, not 250) in day-nighters on Dhaka pitch with all the due around would have been a very big task to ask (not that we reached 200 while batting first winning the toss), so we would have lost anyway.

But the whole situation gives us a clue of what might have happened.

AGC · #10 November 18, 2003, 12:01 PM

After the whitewash against Bangladesh, England was thrashed by Sri Lanka today. This shows how weak the BD team is at the moment....

Score:
England
88 all out (46.1 overs)
Sri Lanka
89 for 0 (13.5 overs)

oracle · #11 November 18, 2003, 12:32 PM

I have my suspicions about Dambulla pitch. So let's see how Colombo goes. England will reverse their fortune there.

sheshprohor · #12 November 18, 2003, 01:02 PM

Ya ya ya......

Prohor

Sami · #13 November 18, 2003, 01:21 PM

OMG... just checked the scorecard... that did hurt... and English team didnt even get a wicket... Jaywasuriya and kalu rampaged

Oh yeah... Sri Lanka is the second team I support... Goooooo SL...

But it feels bad when u compare it to BD series... Is Bangladesh sooooo bad? Its terrible... The pitch seemed ok... The English batsman sucked... cause it seems the Sri lankan Batsmen and bowlers faired well in the middle... well played Srilanka...

Sami · #14 November 18, 2003, 01:22 PM

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Thereafter it was damage limitation, and those who last week had moaned about Bangladesh's pedestrian scoring and goal of simply batting out the full allocation of overs were made to swallow their words.

Lovely....

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AGC · #15 November 18, 2003, 01:33 PM

Feels good to see England lose though. Sri Lanka is amazing. Always good to see a subcontinent side doing well. Too bad India lost to Australia.

chinaman · #16 November 18, 2003, 05:02 PM

"England thrashed by Sri Lanka" thread started by AGC has been moved and merged here.

BangladeshCricket · #17 November 18, 2003, 07:09 PM

Flintoff ....shala amader onek pain diche..i am so happy they got out and also gave away runs...

chinaman · #18 November 19, 2003, 08:04 AM

oracle · #19 November 19, 2003, 09:05 AM

If there is any consolation from this defeat it is the fact that they are unlikely to play this poorly again in Sri Lanka.
The batsmen also did'nt think much of Muttiah Muralitharanl. Although the spinner was very economical he failed to get a wicket. They only have the other four bowlers to worry about now.
For the record England are not novices in scoring outrageously low scores in ODI.

[Edited on 19-11-2003 by oracle]