Third Test: Sri Lanka v England in Colombo, 23/11/18.

[Arthur Crabtree]

Lead over 300. Rashid very handy down the order and more runs for Ben2.

[meninblue]

Will be surprised if SL scores over 210. Going to be a easy win for England imo.

[Durhamfootman]

got the 300 lead... 318 a it happens. Might not get too many more as Rashid and Broad fall quickly after tea

[ianp1970]

Three for Gentle Ben, ensuring he gets picket for the team of the series in one of the pace slots.

Only pacer for me AC.

Karunaratne
Jennings
Bairstow
Root
Stokes
Buttler
Foakes
Moeen
Rashid
Dilruwan
Leach

[mikesiva]

Match winning spells from Rashid and Stokes! 99 run lead, all looking good for england here

Rashid is looking like a pretty good pick now....

[Arthur Crabtree]

Three for Gentle Ben, ensuring he gets picket for the team of the series in one of the pace slots.

Only pacer for me AC.

Karunaratne
Jennings
Bairstow
Root
Stokes
Buttler
Foakes
Moeen
Rashid
Dilruwan
Leach

Two SL players! I suppose Lakmal would be the other seamer, if we wanted one.

[ianp1970]

Three for Gentle Ben, ensuring he gets picket for the team of the series in one of the pace slots.

Only pacer for me AC.

Karunaratne
Jennings
Bairstow
Root
Stokes
Buttler
Foakes
Moeen
Rashid
Dilruwan
Leach

Two SL players! I suppose Lakmal would be the other seamer, if we wanted one.

Do they deserve any more?

Mathews and Dananjaya were closest, but Bairstow and Rashid appeared more worthy of selection.

[ianp1970]

Three for Gentle Ben, ensuring he gets picket for the team of the series in one of the pace slots.

Only pacer for me AC.

Karunaratne
Jennings
Bairstow
Root
Stokes
Buttler
Foakes
Moeen
Rashid
Dilruwan
Leach

Two SL players! I suppose Lakmal would be the other seamer, if we wanted one.

Do they deserve any more?

Mathews and Dananjaya were closest, but Bairstow and Rashid appeared more worthy of selection.

[Arthur Crabtree]

Red ink for Foakes and too many for SL to chase.

[meninblue]

SL struggling at 24/2.

[Arthur Crabtree]

That's Broad's bowling for the Test over. Arguably should have played Woakes, he would have at least looked good batting at nine.

[Durhamfootman]

4 down, and still time to lose another one.... maybe even two

[meninblue]

Will be surprised if SL scores over 210. Going to be a easy win for England imo.

Now even 190 looks difficult. SL not looking to surprise.

[Durhamfootman]

oops... no there isn't, because the rain saves SL's blushes

[budgetmeansbudget]

That's Broad's bowling for the Test over. Arguably should have played Woakes, he would have at least looked good batting at nine.

Easier for selectors to tell Woakes he isn't playing when Anderson is rested than Broad! Plus they wanted to look at his shorter bowling run up. Must admit I didn't see a difference.

I would definitely have picked Woakes, picking Broad was the equivalent of going in with 10 players. Saying that he did have 2 catches dropped first innings and took a good catch to get rid of Mathews this time. Seamers in this series only deserve a place if they can bat.