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Morning all. I won’t be around at all today, not til the evening, so by the time I get back I want a full list of comments to give a detailed run of the day’s play.
Okay, it’s not the Ashes, but it’s the first Test of the summer…
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England v Sri Lanka, 1st Test, Lord’s, 1st day
By Will 2 years ago, mid-May Leave a comment on this post
Live chat of the first Test between England and Sri Lanka
So, the first Test of the summer gets underway this morning. Half of England’s first-choice XI are either covered in bandages or hobbling on crutches; chances are they’ll have their feet up and will be watching on TV. That’s if they subscribe to Sky, of course…
This is the first summer that the first Test hasn’t been available on terrestrial TV which, being a non-Sky subscriber, I’m peeved at. I don’t doubt Sky will do a great job, but it’s back to TMS for me on my days off. Or the pub.
Chat away!
UPDATE 10.36 England win toss and bat. Sajid Mahmood (debut) and Monty Panesar to play. Ian Bell and Jon Lewis miss out.
Tags: england, ian-bell, jon-lewis, lords, monty-panesar, sajid-magmood, sri-lanka, sri-lanka-in-england |
25 Responses to “England v Sri Lanka, 1st Test, Lord’s, 1st day”
May 11th, 2006 at 9.42 am
May 11th, 2006 at 9.49 am
Yippee, the Test matches are back, and as usual I had my customary dream predicting what the score will be. Last night I dreamt that Alastair Cook was out for 313, and when he was out Tres was still in. Wishful thinking or blind confidence? I think I need to have a chat with my inner self.
May 11th, 2006 at 10.36 am
Lewis and Bell out, Mahmood and Panesar in
England 1 Marcus Trescothick, 2 Andrew Strauss, 3 Alastair Cook, 4 Kevin Pietersen, 5 Paul Collingwood, 6 Andrew Flintoff, 7 Geraint Jones (wk), 8 Liam Plunkett, 9 Sajid Mahmood, 10 Matthew Hoggard, 11 Monty Panesar
Sri Lanka (probable) 1 Michael Vandort, 2 Upul Tharanga, 3 Kumar Sangakkara (wk), 4 Mahela Jayawardene (capt), 5 Tillakaratne Dilshan, 6 Thilan Samaraweera, 7 Farvez Maharoof, 8 Chaminda Vaas, 9 Nuwan Zoysa, 10 Muttiah Muralitharan, 11 Lasith Malinga.
May 11th, 2006 at 10.39 am
Don’t you mean Mahmood in, Lewis out?
May 11th, 2006 at 10.41 am
Ha, sorry!
May 11th, 2006 at 11.03 am
How nice to be able to listen to cricket at a sensible time of day!
May 11th, 2006 at 12.22 pm
Hey, someone (I’m assuming it was Boycs) just mentioned the “corridor of uncertainty” on the live feed! I don’t think he meant us though . . .
Isn’t it great to have the commentary over the internet at last. Makes a pleasant change from refreshing the scorecard page every minute or two over the English winter. My husband thought I was mad . . . maybe he’s got a point . . .
May 11th, 2006 at 12.26 pm
You know it’s summer when there’s Blowers on the radio! Ahh, bliss 
May 11th, 2006 at 12.54 pm
I’m sitting in Melbourne listening to Blowers and desperately wishing I was back home. He’s just seen his first bird of the morning, a pigeon. Only Blowers can find delight in this. I seem to remember everyone else in London hates the damn things.
Aah, the first day of test match cricket in England. What am I doing in Australia!!
May 11th, 2006 at 1.03 pm
Darnation. Strauss out with the last ball before lunch.
May 11th, 2006 at 4.33 pm
Did someone just say something on tms about vaughan being injured again this morning?
May 11th, 2006 at 4.40 pm
Yeah, I heard that too. The only confirmation I could find so far was this
from Sportinglife.com.
May 11th, 2006 at 4.44 pm
Cool - thanks for that. I guess TMS can get the news out quicker than the web.
May 11th, 2006 at 5.29 pm
England 276-2.
Can it be only a year ago that we thought we needed Graham Thorpe in order to have a chance against the Aussies? Now even TMS think we’re only missing Vaughan for his captaincy and nobody misses Bell - for years the great white hope.
Vass isn’t the bowler he was - Murali had better be in a class of his own, the rest of them you wouldn’t bet to keep a county side in Division One…
May 11th, 2006 at 5.30 pm
For Vass, read Vaas, of course. New ball taken.
May 11th, 2006 at 5.36 pm
Lovely innings by Cook, and even KP isn’t being his usual airheadly self. (She says, possibly inviting the Commentator’s Kiss of Death).
Comedy moment where Maharoof (I think) gave up on what he thought was a boundary, only to have it stop short and let the batsmen run four. Classic.
May 11th, 2006 at 5.46 pm
Is it just me, or did Blowers just call Mahela Jayawardene “Michelle”?
May 11th, 2006 at 5.54 pm
Pietersen caught off a no-ball, Cook caught behind for 89.
And so… ‘Oggy ‘Oggy ‘Oggy Oi Oi Oi 
May 11th, 2006 at 5.57 pm
Pietersen’s innings could be classed as evidence for a deity - someone certainly smiles down on him 
May 11th, 2006 at 6.00 pm
How come Pieterson get’s all the luck! I don’t understand!
May 11th, 2006 at 6.01 pm
(I meant all of KP’s innings, btw, not just this one)
Christopher - you were almost right. Alastair Cook wasn’t out for 312, but on 312
May 11th, 2006 at 6.19 pm
Hmm - England should be happy! Cook will be dissapointed but shouldn’t be. KP proves that luck is in the genes, just as well Bell proves that it’s not in his (although obviously not today!). Looking forward to some bowling from England by the end of tomorrow!
May 11th, 2006 at 7.55 pm
Hi all. Just got back to see the highlights. Trescothick looked in control until his edge to first slip. Cook, again, looked very good; he seems to use his height against the spinners to good effect, and is pretty nimble too. Looks pretty bloody good to me - enjoyed the back-foot leg-side flick for four! Some batsmen will play for a decade and will never manage that shot (then again I’m a bit of a back-foot leg-side fan, me). In fact, he’s as good a young batsman I’ve seen for a while. Sir Geoff likes him too. “Shot, boy.”
Pietersen, well…again, only seen highlights, but he looked absolutely imperious. He’s so frigging tall and, despite his crouched stance, he morphs and extends his body - uncrouching, if you like - when he plays his shots, and looks like a giant. He is a giant. Oh dear, ha, see what you mean about the no-ball! Nice catch, wanky shot. Fortune favours…well, you know.
First time in years that I’ve missed the opening day of a Test, let alone the opening day of the summer. Looked like a nice, solid one for England
May 11th, 2006 at 8.28 pm
Five’s highlights were absolutely superb; no-one does cricket as well as Sunset + Vine. I missed Benaud and Athers, though.
Comments on the day’s play? Great to see Tresco so obviously enjoying himself, first of all. Alistair Cook is terrifyingly good, and I can only imagine experiences the world slowed down, Matrix style; he seems able to just wait until the ball has almost passed him, before clipping it perfectly to the boundary. One of his off-side cuts was absolutely outrageous.
I can see us declaring on 530 odd after a 27-ball 50 from Geraint Jones.
May 11th, 2006 at 9.13 pm
As for leaving Bell out, my views are mixed. Cook’s clearly got the better head for the game, but he’s yet another slip catcher in side that already has Flintoff, Tresco and Strauss.
Bell, on the other hand, is one of the best close catchers in the game, and has taken loads of important catches, even when he’s been inept with the bat.
Catches win matches. But then so do assured knocks of 89 or so.
