First Test. England v Sri Lanka at Headingley. 19/5/16.

[Aidan11]

The collapse is on.

Get the chainsaw going

You read my mind....

[sussexpob]

There it is... well played Bairstow!!

[bigfluffylemon]

Well done Jonny, and at home too.

Pity England's score is going to be very sub-par.

[Aidan11]

Yes Jonny

[Aidan11]

He might as well give it the long handle now.


No point hanging around with Finn & Anderson.

[Aidan11]

Worryingly there are only four scores so far in this innings in double/treble figures.


Even more worryingly is those scores are 103*, 86,16 & 12.

[bigfluffylemon]

Poor from everyone but Bairstow this morning. After getting through to 12.30 with no wickets down, another collapse

Yet again England need their bowlers to get them out of a batting-collapse created hole.

[Durhamfootman]

rumour has it that the crowd are hoping for another 40 odd over day of exceptional value for money

of course, this is test cricket, so in order to get 40 odd overs in they will need to have at least 2 sessions without any rain

the cynic in me reckons the ECB will be thinking it can push the game into the 4th day

the cynic in me is thinking that that might be the only way that Durham can make a quid out of their test.... hope the rain and slow play push the match into the bank holiday Monday

Nice to see that 8 of England's batsmen have managed to score 42 runs between them.

[sussexpob]

Couple of lovely strokes from Bairstow after lunch. Can he push this score onto the 300 mark?

[sussexpob]

Finn joining in now

[sussexpob]

FInn narrowly avoids death by review.

[sussexpob]

These two batsman showing how woeful the other lot apart from Hales did in the last two days.

[sussexpob]

Just as I post that, Bairstow goes for the big one and is caught out of the top edge

Excellent effort, ended up having to play his shots and got out.

Could be a career defining innings for him

[sussexpob]

298 all out.

[mikesiva]

The collapse is on.

Get the chainsaw going

You read my mind....

Good to see Chameera finishing with a three-fer...this young man has so much promise. He can be really fast when he wants to put his back in it. I just hope he stays fit....