{"id":55943,"date":"2021-01-10T11:32:15","date_gmt":"2021-01-10T11:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=55943"},"modified":"2021-01-10T11:44:31","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T11:44:31","slug":"england-tour-to-sri-lanka-2021-when-the-test-series-starts-dates-squad-and-how-to-watch-live-on-tv-by-chris-stocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/england-tour-to-sri-lanka-2021-when-the-test-series-starts-dates-squad-and-how-to-watch-live-on-tv-by-chris-stocks\/","title":{"rendered":"England tour to Sri Lanka 2021: When the Test series starts, dates, squad and how to watch live on TV  by Chris Stocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #333300;\">England tour to Sri Lanka 2021: When the Test series starts, dates, squad and how to watch live on TV by Chris Stocks<\/span><\/h1>\n<div class=\"article-padding\">\n<h2 class=\" excerpt\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">An undercooked England face a Sri Lanka side who are coming straight off a two-Test series in South Africa<\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"inews__post-byline row middle-xs \">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-55944\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/christ.jpg\" alt=\"England tour to Sri Lanka 2021: When the Test series starts, dates, squad and how to watch live on TV\" width=\"84\" height=\"84\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"inews__post-byline__avatar\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"inews__post-byline__meta\">\n<div class=\"inews__post-byline__author-link\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">By\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000;\" title=\"Chris Stocks\" href=\"https:\/\/inews.co.uk\/author\/chris-stocks\">Chris Stocks<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"inews__post-byline__pubdate\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">January 8, 2021 6:32 pm<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"inews__post-byline__moddate\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Updated January 8, 2021 6:58 pm<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"inews__post-byline__share\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-padding article-content\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_55945\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55945\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-55945\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/England-tour-to-Sri-Lanka-2021.jpg\" alt=\"England tour to Sri Lanka 2021: When the Test series starts, dates, squad and how to watch live on TV\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-55945\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Englands captain Joe Root (R) arrives at the Rajapaksa international airport in Mattala on January 3, 2021, as England&#8217;s cricket team returned to Sri Lanka to play two Tests abandoned in March due to the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by Ishara S. KODIKARA \/ AFP) (Photo by ISHARA S. KODIKARA\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Source<\/strong>:-<a style=\"color: #800000;\" href=\"https:\/\/inews.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/england-tour-sri-lanka-2021-test-series-when-start-dates-squad-tv-channel-watch-live-823069\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">inews<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 20px;\">England\u00a0will head into the first Test against\u00a0Sri Lanka\u00a0in Galle not only undercooked but positively rare after less than two full days\u2019 match practice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 20px;\">It is a concern given their last Test against Pakistan in August was almost six months ago.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 20px;\">But a\u00a0combination of Covid\u00a0and a packed winter that sees\u00a0Joe Root\u2019s team head to India for four Tests immediately after this two-match series means just a sole two-day intra-squad warm-up match was scheduled at the start of this tour.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"inews__shortcode-readmore\">\n<div class=\"inews__shortcode-readmore__image\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 20px;\"><img class=\"i-amphtml-intrinsic-sizer\" style=\"border-style: none; max-width: 100%; display: block !important;\" role=\"presentation\" width=\"84\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 20px;\">Day one took place on Friday, with Team Root facing off against Team Buttler in Hambantota.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 20px;\">With bad weather forecast on Saturday, England decided to play 50 overs per side. Of the batsman expected to feature in the first Test, Root, who made an unbeaten 74, Dan Lawrence, undefeated on 46 during a 95-run stand with his captain, and Zak Crawley, who also made 46, had valuable time in the middle. Spinner Dom Bess, bowling 16 overs for one wicket, got the most out of the exercise for Team Buttler.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"qa\">\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 20px;\">Sri Lanka vs England: Dates and how to watch in UK<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 20px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>January 14-18 \u2013\u00a0First Test:<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0Live from 4am GMT on Sky Sports Cricket &amp; Main Event (From 4.25am Days 2-5)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 20px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>January 22-26 \u2013\u00a0Second Test:<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0Live from 4am on Sky Sports Cricket &amp; Main Event (From 4.25am Days 2-5)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 20px;\">But the rest of England\u2019s expected top six in Galle \u2013 Dominic Sibley, Jonny Bairstow and Jos Buttler \u2013 made just six runs between them as Team Buttler collapsed to 37 for five.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">25.1-11-45-10 v &#x1f1f1;&#x1f1f0; in 2016 &#x1f5d3;<\/p>\n<p>Excited to see <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jimmy9?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@jimmy9<\/a> back in action? Yep, us too &#x1f601; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fNRcBXLmy7\">pic.twitter.com\/fNRcBXLmy7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; England Cricket (@englandcricket) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/englandcricket\/status\/1347951341583409152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 9, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 20px;\">Sibley then batted again, making 18 not out, but Ollie Pope was the standout performer with an unbeaten 58.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 20px;\">Pope is working his way back from a serious shoulder injury and is not part of the squad in Sri Lanka but his performance was extremely encouraging ahead of his expected return in India.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"qa\">\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 20px;\">England Men\u2019s Test Squad vs Sri Lanka<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 20px;\">Joe Root (Yorkshire) (captain), Moeen Ali* (Worcestershire), James Anderson (Lancashire), Jonathan Bairstow (Yorkshire), Dom Bess (Yorkshire), Stuart Broad (Nottinghamshire), Jos Buttler (Lancashire), Zak Crawley (Kent), Sam Curran (Surrey), Ben Foakes (Surrey), Dan Lawrence (Essex), Jack Leach (Somerset), Dom Sibley (Warwickshire), Olly Stone (Warwickshire), Chris Woakes (Warwickshire), Mark Wood (Durham)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 20px;\"><em>*Moeen Ali is isolating after testing positive for Covid-19 and is expected to rejoin the squad on Wednesday<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 20px;\">Everyone else under consideration for Galle will get another chance to blow away the cobwebs on Saturday but the pretence of an actual match has been dropped by England, who confirmed \u201cday two\u201d will be a middle practice with the spinners bowling the majority of the overs.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_55947\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55947\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-55947\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/England-tour-to-Sri-Lanka-2021202.jpg\" alt=\"https:\/\/inews.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/england-tour-sri-lanka-2021-test-series-when-start-dates-squad-tv-channel-watch-live-823069\" width=\"600\" height=\"340\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-55947\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">File photo dated 04-08-2019 of England&#8217;s Moeen Ali. PA Photo. Issue date: Monday January 4, 2020. England are crossing their fingers that they have avoided a wider Covid-19 outbreak after Moeen Ali\u2019s positive test cast an early shadow on their tour of Sri Lanka. See PA story CRICKET England. Photo credit should read Mike Egerton\/PA Wire.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 20px;\">Given rain is expected to hit halfway through the day, it is the best way to ensure everyone gets as much time in the middle as possible before the series starts on Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 20px;\">Even so, the lack of preparation time baked into the schedule will make things tough against a Sri Lanka side who are coming straight off a two-Test series in South Africa.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 20px;\">Indeed, this will be the least prepared England side for an overseas Test series in living memory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 20px;\">The only previous occasion they didn\u2019t have a proper warm-up match was in India in 2016 \u2013 but back then they had two Tests in Bangladesh immediately beforehand.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 20px;\">The number of tour matches has been cut markedly in recent years. Two warm-up games are now the norm for England before most overseas series bar the Ashes. But the lack of preparation time on this tour is unprecedented.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">You just love to see it &#x1f60d;<\/p>\n<p>&#x1f1f1;&#x1f1f0; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SLvENG?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SLvENG<\/a> &#x1f3f4;&#xe0067;&#xe0062;&#xe0065;&#xe006e;&#xe0067;&#xe007f; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7dJEFEtm0W\">pic.twitter.com\/7dJEFEtm0W<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 England Cricket (@englandcricket) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/englandcricket\/status\/1347226525645549571?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 7, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-padding article-content\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 20px;\">The quality of preparation is equally important to the quantity and sadly England seem to be lacking both in Sri Lanka after they were confronted yesterday by a seaming green top in Hambantota \u2013 a world away from the turning pitch they are expecting in Galle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 20px;\">One of the other big challenges of playing in Sri Lanka is the heat. Such is the humidity, England\u2019s players, weighed regularly to ensure they are taking on enough fluids, are losing around 1 kilogram a session.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 20px;\">A lack of preparation not only risks bad results but injury too \u2013 particularly for the seamers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 20px;\">Bess, though, brushed off concerns about the abbreviated lead-up to this series, saying: \u201cA lot of this is mental, getting back into it. Once you get your mindset right, I genuinely believe you are halfway there. I don\u2019t see it as a big problem.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 20px;\">There was good news for England off the pitch on Friday when they returned a full set of negative results from the latest round of Covid tests. Moeen Ali, who tested positive last Sunday, is still self-isolating at the team hotel but is expected to rejoin the squad on Wednesday. Chris Woakes, a close contact of Moeen, will finish his self-isolation period on Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>England tour to Sri Lanka 2021: When the Test series starts, dates, squad and how to watch live on TV by Chris Stocks An undercooked England face a Sri Lanka side who are coming straight off a two-Test series in South Africa By\u00a0Chris Stocks January 8, 2021 6:32 pm Updated January 8, 2021 6:58 pm 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