by sussexpob » Tue Jan 26, 2021 8:08 am
Just a few years ago England whitewashed Sri Lanka away 3-0, then lost to Windies, bowled by Ireland for 80, failed to win a home ashes series for the first time in a long while and lost to NZ. It didn't pave the way for much glory.
It's hard to obviously rate the series in any form. Sri Lanka have beat some team at home but since hearth retired and dananjaya got banned (I take it seeing as though his ban ended just before this series, they are done with him) they've not been at all good. Medium pace part timers from Zimbabwe taking 8 wicket hauls and drop catches away from losing a test to them shows how bad they've become.
I get the argument playing away here is difficult historically and many good teams have met defeat, but it just doesn't feel comparable.
Someone like Matthews turning around 5 years of horrendous form and making scores is a worry. Giving a century to the worst best consistently picked in his era is a worry. The openers scratching out hardly any substance is a worry.
I expected England to utterly dominate this team, and they didn't. So I guess I'm either wrong and SL is a tougher place I give it credit, or England are a worse team in Asia than I thought.
We will see in India which is true, but I can't see england winning a test there on this performance. They needed to lay down a serious beating to prove their competitiveness imo
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