England chasing 233 to beat Sri Lanka: Cricket World Cup 2019 – live!

Cricket World Cup updates from the match at HeadingleyTatenda Taibu: ‘I should have been Zimbabwe’s poster boy’Email Simon here or tweet @Simon_Burnton 2.56pm BST 6th over: England 16-1 (Vince 4, Root 12) After a couple of dots Vince has an ungainly hoik, which flies off his outside edge and lands safely beyond backward point, bringing the over’s only run. Then Pradeep gets one to nip back into Root, and it flies past the inside edge but well wide of off stump! 2.53pm BST 5th over: England 15-1 (Vince 3, Root 12) Five off the first half of the over in ones and twos, and then none off the second half, which is interrupted by Root examining his bat at length like a lepidopterist examining a new specimen. He doesn’t like what he sees, and demands a replacement.“What would make this a great ODI?” ponders Harkam Sumal. “I reckon England dipping to 130-8, with Buttler and Morgan both departed for next to nothing, leaving Mo and Joffra to launch a cavalier devil-may-care assault (predominantly straight down the ground) of such liquid casual languidity that it makes grown men and women gasp, sigh and well up all at once. That’ll do me. Oh, let’s have Joffra departing with fifteen runs still to get in a hilarious mix-up that results in both batsmen at the same end, and leaving the middle for the pavilion chuckling to himself. Then we can have Mark Wood and Mo together at the end, an over of Malinga to Wood where almost every ball results in a dismissal, and then Mo launching a couple out of the ground to seal the deal. That’ll do the job nicely!” Continue reading…
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