48.5 -
Willey to Randiv, FOUR, Willey simply turns back with disgust. He's bowled a decent full ball which curls...swirls away with some tail to find the outside edge as Randiv swings for the rafters. Runs away to beat third man
48.1 -
Willey to Tharanga, FOUR, loads up on the bottom hand and crashes it over extra-cover with a hefty swish. Too short from Willey and he doesn't have the pace really. Tharanga backs away a touch and gets a lot of meat
46.4 -
Willey to Randiv, FOUR, second boundary of the over with a cute little paddle from Randiv. He shuffles across off, picks a length ball and helps it on its way. Fine enough
46.1 -
Willey to Tharanga, FOUR, thick edge and it skips away into the third man fence. No slips which is understandable at this stage and Tharanga gets away with a loose drive away from the body. The length wasn't quite there
43.5 -
Plunkett to Tharanga, FOUR, squared up from round the wicket, an outside edge and four. Cruel for Plunkett who gets the ball to hold its line from a back of a length, Tharanga is neither forward nor back and the movement foils his defence
39.1 -
Moeen Ali to Tharanga, FOUR, Ali overpitching and is punished by Tharanga. Scythed away through the covers with a big swish. He's been short of runs recently and could do with these gifts...
37.5 -
Root to Tharanga, FOUR, another poor one, this time down leg and this time Tharanga doesn't miss out. Goes hard on the pull and gets a little tickle down to the fine leg fence
29.2 -
Plunkett to Chandimal, FOUR, down the pitch and cross-bat smite through mid-wicket. The key was he predicted the length early and placed it in the gap, fair enough! No risky business from Dinesh
27.3 -
Plunkett to Chandimal, FOUR, excellent placement from Dinesh Chandimal. Pierced the gap between deep square and long leg to perfection, length on the stumps - He walked across and whipped it with those rubber wrists, in the air and in the gap. Don't run...
26.5 -
Adil Rashid to Chandimal, leg byes, FOUR, just past a diving leg-slip. The googly that spins past Chandimal's flicking blade, just tickles the pad and flies to the right of Alex Hales. Bonus runs these...
26.1 -
Adil Rashid to Mathews, FOUR, the sweep-saga continues from Sri Lanka. This time Mathews makes a meaty connection as he sinks and times the strokes to perefection, past the keeper and raced away
24.0 -
Moeen Ali to Mathews, FOUR, sprayed wide and Mathews eyes lit up. Jumps back and cracks a cut behind backward point, right off the meat and no-one's stopping that
21.4 -
Moeen Ali to Mathews, leg byes, FOUR, yet again Mathews gets outside off and tries to repeat the slog-sweep, was a bit too early. The inward spin brushes the pads and runs away to the fine leg fence
19.1 -
Moeen Ali to Mathews, FOUR, low full toss and Mathews doesn't need too many opportunities to get going. Drops to one knee and belts the sweep square on the leg-side, no chance for the man in the deep
12.4 -
Plunkett to Chandimal, FOUR, oh, this shot doctors its way through the slight gap between backward point and cover-point. The former gives the chase after Chandimal opens the face of the bat and sliced this length ball away, but fails
8.1 -
Plunkett to K Perera, FOUR, that's lovely wrist work. Nicely cocks his wrists as he opens the face of the bat, chips it over backward point. Bairstow chases - an effort that's reckoned as "valiant" on air but the ball teases the dive to win in the deep
6.1 -
Plunkett to K Perera, FOUR, that's a horrid delivery from Liam Plunkett. Full toss outside off, asking Perera to exhibit one of his muscular strokes, Perera though doesn't get carried away - Just throws his arms on the drive and clobbers it past mid-off
2.3 -
Willey to K Perera, FOUR, that's a swipe. A brutal whippy swipe to shame this full ball on the middle and leg stumps. Gets nicely forward and low and crashes it through mid-wicket
1.0 -
Willey to Gunathilaka, FOUR, what a way to end the over. Willey remembers that there's a slip cordon, pitches the ball very full to bring it into play but Gunathilaka foils it all with a front foot cover drive. Easy on the eyes
47.3 -
Woakes to Tharanga, SIX, slower ball, sits up and hacked away to the deep mid-wicket boundary, all the way. Poor delivery really. Allowed Tharanga plenty of time to rock back and pummel the pull. Flat six
4.4 -
Willey to Gunathilaka, SIX, Mic. Holding is in full awe of that stroke. He just whispered "WOW." That expression should tell you the story - Pitched right up to be bashed, Gunathilaka just extends his arms and uses his wrists to get the elevation. High and soaring over the long-off fence. Oh those bats I tell you... One hand came off after the execution but when the ball met the blade the sound was electric - Crrrrrunced
4.2 -
Willey to Gunathilaka, SIX, not timed but this carries all the way. Takes the length on with a big front foot stride and clubs it over mid-off for an overwhelming six
40.4 -
Willey to Maharoof, out Bowled!! Right through him! Just a little bit of nip back into the right-hander from a good length and Maharoof has played all around it. It's not done a great deal but enough to take the top of off. Sri Lanka are disintegrating. Maharoof b Willey 2(3)
40.0 -
Moeen Ali to Chandimal, out Chandimal Run Out!! Another run-out and Sri Lanka sink further into darkness with their set batsman hobbling back. Huge mix-up after a ball is knocked into the on-side, Chandimal and Tharanga agree on the single at first before Tharanga sniffs trouble seeing Roy swooping in from mid-wicket and bails out. Chandimal had already reached the point of no return and all it took was a reasonable under-arm throw near the stumps to put an end to his vigil at the crease. Chandimal run out (Jason Roy/Buttler) 52(86) [4s-3]
34.1 -
Adil Rashid to S Prasanna, out Caught by Willey!! David Willey has plucked the catch of the season. Fantastic, absolutely top-class stuff from the Northampton lad, he rolls on the ground, hands-on-hips and stares at Alex Hales in utter disbelief. I'm sure he will show that to his grand children in the future. Coming to the dismissal: Prasanna took a stride forward and lofted this high into the blue skies - More elevation than distance. Willey from long-on covers a few acres of ground to his left and pounces like a Puma and snaffles it inches above the ground. S Prasanna c Willey b Adil Rashid 2(6)
32.5 -
Adil Rashid to Mathews, out Caught by Plunkett!! Plunkett can't go wrong today, he just can't. Wonder what that last ball six would have done to his confidence, remember Mic Holding having a discussion around those lines - On how small moments can change a cricketer's career. Okay! Nuff said. Adil Rashid gets his reward for some consistent bowling - Slowed it up and lured Mathews to play across the line. The ball did dip and bounced a bit extra than Mathews anticipated. Skews the slog-sweep off the top-edge. In the air....who wants it? (Bumble-style) Plunkett puts his hand up as he runs back at backward square and swallows sans any fuss. Mathews c Plunkett b Adil Rashid 44(54) [4s-3]
16.4 -
Willey to Chandimal, out K Perera Run Out!! No 3rd umpire theatrics, Roy too good. A direct hit and Perera is gone. This ball was short but not much room on this, Chandimal ends up chopping it away off the underedge. Roy hounds it down, uses his left arm and throws it all in one motion at the striker's end to hit the bull's eye from backward point. K Perera run out (Jason Roy) 37(45) [4s-3]
8.5 -
Plunkett to Kusal Mendis, out Lbw!! And now Plunkett has his second wicket. Mendis plays across this in-ducker that scissors in to beat the whipping bat and hits Mendis above the knee roll. A loud appeal, umpire Bruce Oxenford keeps his chest guarded with that revolutionary disc and smiles as he raises the finger. HawkEye shows that it would have just clipped the the pair of bails over the middle stump. Kusal Mendis lbw b Plunkett 0(9)
6.3 -
Plunkett to Gunathilaka, out Caught by Buttler!! Now he goes. Plunkett keeps working him with that delivery angled across, Gunathilaka is lured into a flash again, goes hard and a feather carries back to Buttler. No feet, just stood there and swung. Gunathilaka c Buttler b Plunkett 22(21) [4s-1 6s-2]
2.0 -
Woakes to Gunathilaka, 1 run, edged and Hales drops it at 2nd slip. A shortish length angled across, Gunathilaka has a flash at it. Did well to not go half-hearted, a healthy top-edge shoots back for Hales to clumsily drop it. Moved to his right and fumbled, as 1st slip readied behind to hold onto the ricochet
49.1 -
Woakes to Tharanga, 1 run, fraction full outside off, driven down to long-off to bring up a half-century for Tharanga. He's ensured that Sri Lanka at least bat out these fifty overs..
37.3 -
Root to Chandimal, 1 run, now he gets to his fifty! An honest effort from the Lankan middle order batsman who's had to tone down his natural game for the situation. Clips it from off stump through mid-wicket, nothing grandiloquent about his celebration