The R. Premadasa Stadium has been a panacea for the overdosing-on-runs excessive that ODI cricket has discovered itself in, notably within the girls’s recreation, in latest instances. Even technically adept sides like Australia and India have discovered the going powerful, with intermittent moist climate softening a floor that already tends to play low and sluggish.
England, with two wins in two video games within the match, is not going to take co-host Sri Lanka calmly regardless of all its coherence issues, as the perimeters conflict in a Girls’s ODI World Cup league fixture right here on Saturday.
In 20 conferences within the format, two matches didn’t yield a outcome, and Sri Lanka surprised England solely as soon as, within the 2013 World Cup in India – a one-wicket triumph that Chamari Athapaththu’s aspect will do effectively to revisit in a match filled with comebacks.
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England opener Tammy Beaumont was candid concerning the dearth of left-handers within the batting order, with solely Linsey Smith representing the southpaws and subsequently being given additional assist with method within the nets. However what England can be cautious about is Sri Lanka’s left-arm bowlers, who’ve a harmful capacity to drop tempo on the ball, making life on surfaces like this even more durable. Within the nets, the aspect skilled with boys from the junior classes, to simulate the motion and tempo of a few of Sri Lanka’s mainstays.
With its ‘residence’ World Cup fixture in opposition to Australia washed out just a few days in the past, Sri Lanka can be raring to go because it seeks its first win within the match.
The aspect had an prolonged fielding session, engaged on excessive catches in opposition to the floodlights and their response instances contained in the circle. Coach Rumesh Ratnayake revealed forward of the fixture that there’s a palpable pleasure among the many workforce. A brief spell spent cuddling the resident canines on the venue forward of their coaching block was a visual blessing in disguise.
Revealed on Oct 10, 2025