{"id":10170,"date":"2016-07-02T08:21:15","date_gmt":"2016-07-02T08:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/?p=10170"},"modified":"2016-07-02T08:21:15","modified_gmt":"2016-07-02T08:21:15","slug":"england-vs-sri-lanka-5th-odi-preview-confident-england-look-to-finish-the-series-on-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/02\/england-vs-sri-lanka-5th-odi-preview-confident-england-look-to-finish-the-series-on-high\/","title":{"rendered":"ENGLAND vs SRI LANKA 5th ODI PREVIEW : CONFIDENT ENGLAND LOOK TO FINISH THE SERIES ON HIGH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/angelo-300x178.jpg\" alt=\"Sri Lanka's Tour of England, England and Wales Cricket Board, Sri Lanka Cricket, England vs Sri Lanka, ENGvsSL, ODI, ODI Cricket, Morgan, Mathews, Hales, Root, Roy, Mathews, Chandimal, Kushal Perera, Woakes, Willey, Plunkett, Pradeep, Lakmal, Randiv, Trevor Bayliss, Grahm Ford\" width=\"751\" height=\"445\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After winning the fourth ODI, England have already clinched the series. Now they will be looking forward to continue their momentum and finish the series with the win. On the other hand, Sri Lanka will try to finish the series on positive note by winning this ODI. However, it is not a meaningless match, there are ranking positions to play for and victory for England would ensure they move to fifth in ODI table.<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s performance in the whole tour was not so impressive. Although their batting has shown promise, but their bowling performance have been below average. Sri Lankan bowlers have no clue for England mighty batting line up. \u00a0In the fourth ODI, Sri Lanka were looking good after posting a big total of 305 in 42 overs.\u00a0 But again it became another canter as Jason Roy plundered 162 runs to snatch the victory from Lankans. Jason Roy was looking unstoppable as he scored second\u00a0century of the series. After suffering early blow as Moeen Ali got out early, Joe Root and Jason Roy took the Sri Lankan bowlers and played their shots all around the park.<\/p>\n<p>England on the other side could go through some changes in the fifth ODI. England have dominated throughout in the series. Apart from first match, their middle orders have not been tested much while bowlers have been disciplined. Eoin Morgan are doing good job as a captain and that\u2019s exactly what the hosts will need in the last ODI too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; After winning the fourth ODI, England have already clinched the series. Now they will be looking forward to continue their momentum and finish the series with the win. On the other hand, Sri Lanka will try to finish the series on positive note by winning this ODI. However, it is not a meaningless match, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1927,"featured_media":9872,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,70,8,170,140],"tags":[194,775,113,1103],"class_list":["post-10170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket-analysis","category-featured","category-interesting-stories","category-cricket-news","category-updates","tag-england","tag-engvssl","tag-sri-lanka","tag-sri-lankas-tour-of-england"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1927"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10171,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10170\/revisions\/10171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}