England v Sri Lanka – live!
• Email simon.burnton@guardian.co.uk with your thoughts • Follow it on the sly with our pop-up report • Watch video highlights of the Test here • Barney Ronay on cricket and booze 10.53am: It’s raining! 10.45am: A very random thing that’s amazed me this week: Amon Tobin’s set design . The bad news: you can’t see it – his one UK show was in London last night. The good news: it’s just as well – he well might have given you a bit of a headache. Incredibly impressive bit of design, though. You can see more here (with the volume down, if necessary). And it’s not his only great contribution to musical achievement: this might be the best song ever written about muffins . I’m assuming it’s about muffins. Obviously none of this has any place in an OBO, but I had to tell someone. Morning world! The good news? The weather forecast for the Rose Bowl is great – 24C and sunny. The bad news? That’s the Rose Bowl, Pasadena. But there’s better news from Southampton, as well – it’s rained already this morning, the clouds have cleared and it looks pretty bright. Play should start on schedule, though there will be interruptions this afternoon . If you got here early, you might just have time to check out Mike Selvey’s report on yesterday’s play: Given the apocalyptic predictions for today’s weather, it was a bonus to get any cricket at all. Mizzle held things up in the morning and torrential stuff finished things off before the tea interval. In between times 23 overs were managed as Sri Lanka advanced from 81 for four to 177 for nine, sufficient overs for Chris Tremlett to reinforce the mighty impression he has created, with career best figures of six for 42. They were sufficient also for Stuart Broad to continue his struggle to make any sort of impact other than occasionally on the body of opposing batsmen; and for Sri Lanka’s lower order to be let off the hook by some indifferent captaincy and another brave performance from the wicketkeeper Prasanna Jayawardene, who made 43. England have been presented with a pitch in Southampton that is the antidote to all those bland, consistent surfaces around the world that appear to have the half life of uranium in their rate of deterioration. Raising the mower blades a smidgen offers the bowler something with which to work and provides a challenge to the techniques and fortitude of batsmen. For the full report, click here . Sri Lanka in England 2011 England cricket team Sri Lanka cricket team Cricket Over by over reports Simon Burnton Rob Smyth guardian.co.uk
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England v Sri Lanka – live!
• Email simon.burnton@guardian.co.uk with your thoughts • Follow it on the sly with our pop-up report • Watch video highlights of the Test here • Barney Ronay on cricket and booze 10.53am: It’s raining! 10.45am: A very random thing that’s amazed me this week: Amon Tobin’s set design . The bad news: you can’t see it – his one UK show was in London last night. The good news: it’s just as well – he well might have given you a bit of a headache. Incredibly impressive bit of design, though. You can see more here (with the volume down, if necessary). And it’s not his only great contribution to musical achievement: this might be the best song ever written about muffins . I’m assuming it’s about muffins. Obviously none of this has any place in an OBO, but I had to tell someone. Morning world! The good news? The weather forecast for the Rose Bowl is great – 24C and sunny. The bad news? That’s the Rose Bowl, Pasadena. But there’s better news from Southampton, as well – it’s rained already this morning, the clouds have cleared and it looks pretty bright. Play should start on schedule, though there will be interruptions this afternoon . If you got here early, you might just have time to check out Mike Selvey’s report on yesterday’s play: Given the apocalyptic predictions for today’s weather, it was a bonus to get any cricket at all. Mizzle held things up in the morning and torrential stuff finished things off before the tea interval. In between times 23 overs were managed as Sri Lanka advanced from 81 for four to 177 for nine, sufficient overs for Chris Tremlett to reinforce the mighty impression he has created, with career best figures of six for 42. They were sufficient also for Stuart Broad to continue his struggle to make any sort of impact other than occasionally on the body of opposing batsmen; and for Sri Lanka’s lower order to be let off the hook by some indifferent captaincy and another brave performance from the wicketkeeper Prasanna Jayawardene, who made 43. England have been presented with a pitch in Southampton that is the antidote to all those bland, consistent surfaces around the world that appear to have the half life of uranium in their rate of deterioration. Raising the mower blades a smidgen offers the bowler something with which to work and provides a challenge to the techniques and fortitude of batsmen. For the full report, click here . Sri Lanka in England 2011 England cricket team Sri Lanka cricket team Cricket Over by over reports Simon Burnton Rob Smyth guardian.co.uk
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