Sri Lanka save 1st Test against England

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Seeing as there's little action from Australian cricketers barring the bi-weekly headlines from Shane Warne, I'm forced to wait and hope for chances to gloat over England's shortcomings. Fortunately, they're all too happy to oblige as Sri Lanka batted 2 and a half days to save the 1st Test against England. Sri Lanka had followed on at the halfway mark of the Test and it took a 105 run 9th wicket stand (plus some good ol' fashioned English weather) to get them home. It was gratifying to read of 9 dropped chances by the English fielders. Even more pleasing was captain Andrew Flintoff's language after the match:

"The mood in the dressing room is great. We would have liked to have come out of this game as a win. But we've got a lot of positives coming out of it."

Hmm, a "lot of positives". That's right out of the John Buchanan book of psychobabble - having a team down by the throat then dropping the ball (literally). In fact, it was the pattern in the 3 middle Ashes Tests - completely dominating then failing to finish off the opposition. Unfortunately, they did enough to win back then so it was us scraping around to "find positives".

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Posted by JC on Wed 17 May

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Posted by TA on 2006-05-22 15:51:31

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