Sri Lanka crumbles to 4-81 on Day 1 of Third TestThis cricket season feels as though it has never started. The train has pulled away from the platform several times but never has it gone more than a few yards before signal failure, or leaves on the line have interrupted progress.
There has been no sense of fluency, rhythm or that the journey is actually under way. So it was at the Rose Bowl yesterday for what should have been a celebratory occasion for English cricket when torrential rain delayed the start and kept interrupting.
Yet by the close of the first day of the Third Test, England, winning an attractive toss, had left Sri Lanka in disarray. The tourists' top four had all gone by the 24th over, undone by movement, bounce and a distinct unwillingness for the fray. They recovered partially to 81-4 with Thilan Samaraweera gradually displaying some application but the feeling is that the damage is done.
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