Sri Lanka Vs England : England Gain Control Again

After getting comprehensively beaten by England, Sri Lanka came into the match as underdogs. The match is held in Lord’s which is quite a favorite ground for the English team. The start went quite well for Sri Lankans as they won the toss and elected to field.
England was put into bat and they seemed to be quite confident while coming out and it was a perfect day to smack the ball around all parts of the park. The sun was beating down which was nullifying the any movement that was available for the fast bowlers. But surprisingly England had a bad start as they lost Andrew Strauss in the third over. It was beautiful bowling from Welegedara who got him stuck in front of the wickets.
Just after losing Strauss England lost two more wickets in the form of Trott and Pieterson. At that moment England was 22 for 3 and it seemed that their first innings will come to an end earlier than expected. But Ian Bell and Alistair Cook had other plans as they started rebuilding the innings. Both of them put up a beautiful partnership of over a 100 runs and took the team out of the danger zone. After playing a useful knock of 52 runs Ian Bell lost his wicket and England was once again in trouble at 130 for 4.
But the batsmen who came behind him seemed that they have had some training of surviving and scoring at the same time. The next wicket fell at the score of 201 when Alastair Cook got out for 96 runs. It was quite unlucky of him to miss his hundred which he deserved very well. After Alastair got out Matt Prior came to the middle and started playing freely. He was looking to score runs from the word o and Sri Lanka seemed to lose colour after that. On the other hand, Eoin Morgan scored 70 odd runs and supported his partner pretty well to take his team to a respectable total.
Towards the last session Eoin Morgan got out after scoring 79 and the score was 302 by that time. Matt Prior was looking to score some quick runs and Stuart Broad joined the party as well. Both of them remained not out till the end and took the score to 342 for 6. It will be interesting to see how England bat tomorrow morning as they might look to score as many runs in the first session and make Sri Lanka bat from the second session onwards.

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