Sri Lanka take the spoils

Any team with Muttiah Muralitharan playing in their own back yard are always going to be a difficult proposition but when England dismissed them on the 1st day for only 188 the door was more than ajar. But England’s batting proved fallible  and Ian Bell apart  no-one performed over both innings whilst Kumar Sangakkara proved what a class act he is with the highest score in both innings.

Mercenaries

The BBC report that Bears Kolpak signing Vaughn van Jaarsveld is refusing to return to the county despite signing a 2 year contract in June.

For the life of me I cannot understand how importing South African cricketers under this pretext is going to help English Cricket, good riddance to him I say.