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[Antonil]

In the England vs Sri Lanka match, England did not perform well. England were bowled out in just 33.2 overs and gave Sri Lanka a target of just 156 runs in 33.2 overs. England's performance has been poor since the start. They will never win this match. Sri Lanka will win this match with 100% guarantee, because the target is very low, 156 runs is a very low score, which any team can do very easily. Sri Lanka will win this match.

If you know anything about sports, you must know that predictions are never 100% accurate.

[jasonjm]

A very economical and brilliant bowling display by the Sri Lankan bowlers. I am surprised with England's batting performance; apart from Stoks, no other batsman has shown any resistance. Mathews bowled exceptionally well and took a wicket on his third bowl (he was bowling in ODIs after a gap of almost 3 years). This should be a comfortable win for Sri Lanka, but we have to wait for the result, as England will try to defend this total. Early departure for Kusal Perera, who was not in the best of form. The pitch seems slow, and the ball is taking time to reach the batter. The Sri Lankan team will get into trouble if England bowlers bowled the right length.

[Out of mind]

England team is very strong but has performed so badly in the current season that the cricket loving fans are not optimistic at all. Although the Sri Lankan team did not perform well in terms of bowling, the players of a team like the England team lost 7 wickets for 123 runs. Only three players who have played somewhat well in England team i.e. Bairstow (30 runs), Malan (28 runs) and Stokes are still in the field so how well can they perform if other players are not able to collect runs. In this way, if the England team's wickets continue to fall, there is no possibility of more than 200 runs. Here I can see that England team players have very little patience.

Yes, England is a strong cricket team And they are a team that won the World Cup 2019. However, in this current season, England is going through the worst performance in the 2023 World Cup. Moreover, they have not won many matches so far, only one match, that's why they may not be selected for this World Cup. And today they did not perform very well against Sri Lanka but were bowled out for 156 runs. The bowling line-up of the Sri Lankan team was good today, as a result of which England dismissed the good batsmen and stopped the run rate. Sri Lanka might win today's match, and it is hopeful as England could not produce much score.  However, Sri Lanka have not been able to collect a very good amount of batting at the moment, and they have already lost two wickets, so they are under some pressure. But I expect England to lose in the end if Sri Lanka can survive the match.

[Publictalk792]

A very economical and brilliant bowling display by the Sri Lankan bowlers. I am surprised with England's batting performance; apart from Stoks, no other batsman has shown any resistance. Mathews bowled exceptionally well and took a wicket on his third bowl (he was bowling in ODIs after a gap of almost 3 years). This should be a comfortable win for Sri Lanka, but we have to wait for the result, as England will try to defend this total. Early departure for Kusal Perera, who was not in the best of form. The pitch seems slow, and the ball is taking time to reach the batter. The Sri Lankan team will get into trouble if England bowlers bowled the right length.

In my point of view the bowling was not good the batting of England was more weak therefore they didn't able to stay on pitch. I am saying a bad batting because if you see mostly players are catch out. So this is showing that England has bad batting line.
By the way at this time SriLanka is near to its success. They have made 72 runs in 13 overs and lost only two wickets.

[Sithara007]

A very economical and brilliant bowling display by the Sri Lankan bowlers. I am surprised with England's batting performance; apart from Stoks, no other batsman has shown any resistance. Mathews bowled exceptionally well and took a wicket on his third bowl (he was bowling in ODIs after a gap of almost 3 years). This should be a comfortable win for Sri Lanka, but we have to wait for the result, as England will try to defend this total. Early departure for Kusal Perera, who was not in the best of form. The pitch seems slow, and the ball is taking time to reach the batter. The Sri Lankan team will get into trouble if England bowlers bowled the right length.

Well... they dropped Pathirana. That was a bold move and in the end it worked for them. Pathirana is too young and he can't handle pressure situations. Today, their pace combination of Kasun Rajitha-Angelo Mathews-Lahiru Kumara-Dilshan Madushanka worked pretty well. And they were backed up by the two spinners (Maheesh Theekshana and Dhananjaya de Silva). That said, I am not sure what happened to the England batsmen. Jonny Bairstow and Jos Buttler have a lot of experience of playing in the IPL, but they are not scoring runs this time. 
 

[Unknown Op]

England team is very strong but has performed so badly in the current season that the cricket loving fans are not optimistic at all. Although the Sri Lankan team did not perform well in terms of bowling, the players of a team like the England team lost 7 wickets for 123 runs. Only three players who have played somewhat well in England team i.e. Bairstow (30 runs), Malan (28 runs) and Stokes are still in the field so how well can they perform if other players are not able to collect runs. In this way, if the England team's wickets continue to fall, there is no possibility of more than 200 runs. Here I can see that England team players have very little patience.

Yes, England is a strong cricket team And they are a team that won the World Cup 2019. However, in this current season, England is going through the worst performance in the 2023 World Cup. Moreover, they have not won many matches so far, only one match, that's why they may not be selected for this World Cup. And today they did not perform very well against Sri Lanka but were bowled out for 156 runs. The bowling line-up of the Sri Lankan team was good today, as a result of which England dismissed the good batsmen and stopped the run rate. Sri Lanka might win today's match, and it is hopeful as England could not produce much score.  However, Sri Lanka have not been able to collect a very good amount of batting at the moment, and they have already lost two wickets, so they are under some pressure. But I expect England to lose in the end if Sri Lanka can survive the match.

You are right, England team is most strongest team in cricket world. Once upon a time, they already won world cup tournament one time in the history. In this tournament, their whole team performance seems like that they not capable to win world cup this year. In today match against Sri Lanka, England was completed batting inning in the crease by winning toss from Sri Lanka. If we look today batting inning performance of England team then they made 156 score defending target to Sri Lanka team. This target is worst and too much low in 50 overs. Any weakest team in this cup can easily defend this small score target like Netherlands, Bangladesh, Afghanistan etc. Today definitely Sri Lanka will win this match and their chances for victory is 99% confirm. At present, Sri Lanka team has been defended 85% target and 30 scores are left for defend.

[jasonjm]

Finally, a comfortable win for Sri Lanka. They beat England by 8 wickets. The 137-run partnership between Nissanka and Samarawickrama was the deciding factor in this victory. Today, we have seen an old Sri Lankan batting touch in these youngsters. Poor bowling performance from the English bowlers. It appeared that Sri Lanka was batting at a totally different pitch.
England is now unofficially out of this World Cup. Sri Lanka still got a chance to qualify for the semi-final with certain conditions.

[Bd officer]

Finally, a comfortable win for Sri Lanka. They beat England by 8 wickets. The 137-run partnership between Nissanka and Samarawickrama was the deciding factor in this victory. Today, we have seen an old Sri Lankan batting touch in these youngsters. Poor bowling performance from the English bowlers. It appeared that Sri Lanka was batting at a totally different pitch.
England is now unofficially out of this World Cup. Sri Lanka still got a chance to qualify for the semi-final with certain conditions.

I did not expect England to bat so badly in today's match. England's batting could not do well, unfortunately none of the batting half-centuries. England were all out for 156 in 33.2 overs. England scored 156 which was not enough of a target for the ODI format. Sri Lanka went into bat with a target of 157 runs and won by 8 wickets by a huge margin in 25.4 overs. Sri Lanka were under pressure early on with 2 wickets down, Sadeera Samarawickrama and Pathum Nissanka both performed brilliantly to secure the win. Sri Lanka has won 2 out of 5 matches and has become number 5 in the table. Congratulations to the Sri Lankan team for the win.

[bryant.coleman]

I did not expect England to bat so badly in today's match. England's batting could not do well, unfortunately none of the batting half-centuries. England were all out for 156 in 33.2 overs. England scored 156 which was not enough of a target for the ODI format. Sri Lanka went into bat with a target of 157 runs and won by 8 wickets by a huge margin in 25.4 overs. Sri Lanka were under pressure early on with 2 wickets down, Sadeera Samarawickrama and Pathum Nissanka both performed brilliantly to secure the win. Sri Lanka has won 2 out of 5 matches and has become number 5 in the table. Congratulations to the Sri Lankan team for the win.

Their main players are either injured or out of form. Jofra Archer hasn't yet recovered from injury. Ben Stokes, Sam Curran and Mark Wood are out of form. And they don't have quality players to replace these ones. Anyway, world cup is almost over for England. Now it is time for introspection. The next major ICC tournament is going to be the T20 World Cup of 2024, and they need to prepare well for it.

[Jateng]

England team is very strong but has performed so badly in the current season that the cricket loving fans are not optimistic at all. Although the Sri Lankan team did not perform well in terms of bowling, the players of a team like the England team lost 7 wickets for 123 runs. Only three players who have played somewhat well in England team i.e. Bairstow (30 runs), Malan (28 runs) and Stokes are still in the field so how well can they perform if other players are not able to collect runs. In this way, if the England team's wickets continue to fall, there is no possibility of more than 200 runs.

A huge win for Srilanka by 8 wickets and 24.2 overs to spare. They have beaten England in 5 consecutive editions of World Cup. Absolutely no fight from the English batters and bowlers throughout the match. They were all out for only 156, Nissanka and Samarawickrama did the chase smoothly Too easy for Sri Lanka. A 137-run partnership between Pathum Nissanka and Sadeera Samarawickrama have won the match for Sri Lanka against England. Pathum Nissanka is scored 77(83) and Sadeera Samarawickrama is scored 65(54) win the match by 8 wickets.

[Hirose UK]

Finally, a comfortable win for Sri Lanka. They beat England by 8 wickets. The 137-run partnership between Nissanka and Samarawickrama was the deciding factor in this victory. Today, we have seen an old Sri Lankan batting touch in these youngsters. Poor bowling performance from the English bowlers. It appeared that Sri Lanka was batting at a totally different pitch.
England is now unofficially out of this World Cup. Sri Lanka still got a chance to qualify for the semi-final with certain conditions.

I did not expect England to bat so badly in today's match. England's batting could not do well, unfortunately none of the batting half-centuries. England were all out for 156 in 33.2 overs. England scored 156 which was not enough of a target for the ODI format. Sri Lanka went into bat with a target of 157 runs and won by 8 wickets by a huge margin in 25.4 overs. Sri Lanka were under pressure early on with 2 wickets down, Sadeera Samarawickrama and Pathum Nissanka both performed brilliantly to secure the win. Sri Lanka has won 2 out of 5 matches and has become number 5 in the table. Congratulations to the Sri Lankan team for the win.

It true that Sri Lanka did it again beating England for the umpteenth time in the Cricket World Cup tournament.
They are on the verge of being knocked out early if they continue like this because England have suffered four defeats which leaves them at the bottom of the rankings for now.
Even though there are still several more matches in the future England will likely experience difficulties in the matches against India Pakistan and Australia.
These three teams will become a wall that can prevent England from winning.

It over, there nothing to expect from England because even catching up feels impossible.

[Patrol69]

England won the toss and chose to bat first on a batting paradise in Bengaluru; finally, they chose to bat first . Three changes for the England side. England's batting lineup looked solid and threatening with the arrival of Livingstone and Moeen, and they will try to attack Sri Lankan bowlers from bowl one. If Sri Lanka bowls in the right areas, they might get early wickets. Angelo Mathews and Lahiru Kumara are back in the Sri Lankan team. Angelo will give them a big boost in the match because of his experience.

It is important to note that whoever loses the match today will be out of this competition.

England's two opening batsmen have not been out so far and they are batting in fluent form which means a big target awaits Sri Lanka today. After playing six overs, England managed to score 45 runs. If this wicket pair can be played from 15 to 20 overs then England's first innings total will go beyond 330 to 340 plus. We have seen before how well England perform in pressure matches. Today's match is very stressful for England because if they lose today there is a possibility of being eliminated from the tournament so they will try to beat Sri Lanka today anyway. England fielded with three changes today and Sri Lanka fielded with 2 changes today.

Already losing 5 wickets, England is under a lot of pressure. They have collected 116 runs in 22.5 overs by losing 5 wickets. Looking at England's performance today, it seems that they will not be able to score 250 runs. England are definitely going to lose today as they have lost five wickets at this crucial time. And if England loses to Sri Lanka today, England will leave this World Cup forever. Do you think Sri Lanka can beat England today? I am sure Sri Lanka will beat England today to pull off an unimaginable win.

I really don't want to say anything more about England. At the time when I posted about England, England were in a good position and both batsmen played very good shorts so I thought maybe these two batsmen would play a great innings for England but shortly after I made this post England's streak started and that England kept losing wickets regularly in series of dramas. They managed to reach 156 runs in the end after losing regular wickets. From the time they lost 5 wickets before 80 runs to the end of the game, I never tried to watch the result of this match because a team that loses 5 wickets before 80 runs doesn't have to sit in front of the TV to see how they end up.  .  England's performance in every match has surprised me. If this is the case with the last world champions, what team will we be watching?

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A huge win for Srilanka by 8 wickets and 24.2 overs to spare. They have beaten England in 5 consecutive editions of World Cup. Absolutely no fight from the English batters and bowlers throughout the match. They were all out for only 156, Nissanka and Samarawickrama did the chase smoothly Too easy for Sri Lanka. A 137-run partnership between Pathum Nissanka and Sadeera Samarawickrama have won the match for Sri Lanka against England. Pathum Nissanka is scored 77(83) and Sadeera Samarawickrama is scored 65(54) win the match by 8 wickets.

England's performance in today's match was completely unexpected. Although this match was very important for England to increase the rank in the points table, but England's batsmen gave a worst performance today. I thought that since England is a stronger team than Sri Lanka, they will win this match, but it turned out to be the opposite. Although I would agree with many that England's main batsmen are more vulnerable due to injuries. It would be wrong to say only that England's batting performance has been bad, both in terms of batting and bowling performance. In terms of bowling too, England's bowlers are also expansive today in terms of giving runs.

[ZAINmalik75]

Finally, a comfortable win for Sri Lanka. They beat England by 8 wickets. The 137-run partnership between Nissanka and Samarawickrama was the deciding factor in this victory. Today, we have seen an old Sri Lankan batting touch in these youngsters. Poor bowling performance from the English bowlers. It appeared that Sri Lanka was batting at a totally different pitch.
England is now unofficially out of this World Cup. Sri Lanka still got a chance to qualify for the semi-final with certain conditions.

I am still in shocked and can't able to believe that the defending champions can perform so badly like this and will almost knockout before semifinal, it's so rude and pointing out huge question on different quality player performance. Anyway they lose four of thier matches and if they still win rest of thier match then still they have no chance to qualify unless any miracle happened and all top 4 lose thier matches against below standing teams. I think credit of this victory goes to sirilankan bowling because I taught England will fight hard today for thier qualification but sirilankan bowler not even provide a single opportunity to thier opponent to settle down and thats why they scored low and lose important match

[noormcs5]

England's performance in every match has surprised me. If this is the case with the last world champions, what team will we be watching?

Honestly, we never expected this type of performance by the England team. Yes, any team can lose on any day but the way England lost to
Sri Lanka today, it was least expected.

England were all out in the 34th over and made only 156 runs. A team with having batting lineup like Jonny Bairstow, Dawid Malan, Joe Root , Ben Stokes and others, can you imagine they will be making only 156 runs and that too against one of the weakest team Sri Lanka ?

Another thing which no one is talking about now , is the people who bet on the England team. (England was the favorite before the start of the match). There will be 90% people betting on England today and they all have lost the bet and money.

[TakeItEasy]

Honestly, we never expected this type of performance by the England team. Yes, any team can lose on any day but the way England lost to
Sri Lanka today, it was least expected.

England were all out in the 34th over and made only 156 runs. A team with having batting lineup like Jonny Bairstow, Dawid Malan, Joe Root , Ben Stokes and others, can you imagine they will be making only 156 runs and that too against one of the weakest team Sri Lanka ?

Another thing which no one is talking about now , is the people who bet on the England team. (England was the favorite before the start of the match). There will be 90% people betting on England today and they all have lost the bet and money.

This is a game of cricket sometimes we have to see unexpected like today this is not a new thing as I had already seen their statistics and the matches they have played against each other are not that unexpected, because 38 matches were won by England although winning the today's match Sri Lanka also won 37 matches, so there is a 1 match difference of winning between England and Sri Lanka which is not that much.

So, we can expect good cricket from both but talking to the England Team performance as usual today was not as good as they played in their previous matches. I was thinking before that match that England today would go for 400+ but they didn't reach even 200 which is quite disappointing for the fans of England.

[Bitcoin_people]

I am really shocked by the score of today's game a strong team like England lost by a huge margin against Sri Lanka. We know them as one of the most popular and powerful team in England cricket world. But in today's match I thought maybe England will win against Sri Lanka but totally opposite England lost there. England scored 156 runs in 33.2 overs today and lost all wickets, while Sri Lanka scored 160 runs in 24.4 overs to win by a huge margin of 8 wickets. England showed the biggest weakness in today's match for which Sri Lanka beat them by taking advantage of that weakness. England messed up with both the ball and the bat due to which they easily lost against Sri Lanka and Sri Lanka won the match brilliantly with good batting and bowling.

[romero121]

I am really shocked by the score of today's game a strong team like England lost by a huge margin against Sri Lanka. We know them as one of the most popular and powerful team in England cricket world. But in today's match I thought maybe England will win against Sri Lanka but totally opposite England lost there. England scored 156 runs in 33.2 overs today and lost all wickets, while Sri Lanka scored 160 runs in 24.4 overs to win by a huge margin of 8 wickets. England showed the biggest weakness in today's match for which Sri Lanka beat them by taking advantage of that weakness. England messed up with both the ball and the bat due to which they easily lost against Sri Lanka and Sri Lanka won the match brilliantly with good batting and bowling.

Losing to New Zealand in the very first match itself a big blow for the England team. New Zealand won the toss and decided to bowl, where England managed to score 282 runs and it looked like they're very confident in winning the match. New Zealand Chased the target and won the match in a much comfortable way in 37 overs. From their they made a strong comeback against Bangladesh and this didn't last longer as England failed to Afghanistan, South Africa and now in a very bad manner against Sri Lanka. In the remaining four matches England need to win with good runrate to keep its hope of World Cup which is really hard.

[GbitG]

So today England team will play against Sri Lanka team. Boath teams have the equal stats. Sri Lanka won only one match and England also won one match. If we talk about the net run rate so both teams are almost equal in Net Run Rate too. Sri lanka has -1.048 and England has -1.248 according to this England is looking weak as compare to Srilanka. Today match will be an interesting match.

Yeah, you were right from start of the match England team are really in trouble like we can say they lost their right track, none of their player is going with good form which create difficulties for them at every stage and due to such reason they lost most of their match including today match too which I think they can win but unfortunately not. This world cup will be remembered as a bad, horrible dream for England because in recent few years I have never seen such poor performance from them.
Innings start from England were fantastic they have handsome partnership but after single dismissal they can't manage situation later stokes hold inning for a while but unable to add something extraordinary and hence lose this match

[jaberwock]

Finally, a comfortable win for Sri Lanka. They beat England by 8 wickets. The 137-run partnership between Nissanka and Samarawickrama was the deciding factor in this victory. Today, we have seen an old Sri Lankan batting touch in these youngsters. Poor bowling performance from the English bowlers. It appeared that Sri Lanka was batting at a totally different pitch.
England is now unofficially out of this World Cup. Sri Lanka still got a chance to qualify for the semi-final with certain conditions.

I am still in shocked and can't able to believe that the defending champions can perform so badly like this and will almost knockout before semifinal, it's so rude and pointing out huge question on different quality player performance. Anyway they lose four of thier matches and if they still win rest of thier match then still they have no chance to qualify unless any miracle happened and all top 4 lose thier matches against below standing teams. I think credit of this victory goes to sirilankan bowling because I taught England will fight hard today for thier qualification but sirilankan bowler not even provide a single opportunity to thier opponent to settle down and thats why they scored low and lose important match

There is no doubt today all cricketing world is laughing at England with their consistent failure and losing matches like this as Nokia lost their battle against iPhone same happening in this world cup with England they are not having any suitable reply for this performance and their failure even their many players are involved into IPL, but this experience is also not working for them which is really shameful for them.

Sri Lanka done impressive job while they were on bowling because I was not expecting spirit like this from them specially Angelo Mathews done amazing stuff after having spot in this event and squad with this defeat now England is having no chance for the top seven ranks and Sri Lanka suddenly having good time even now they are also having no serious chance for the top four, but their performance brings some good excitement for cricketing fans.