After the first start, England opener claims the crowd" saw really a good day's cricket" and is greeted with cheers.
For one thing, Ben Duckett did n't feel the need to argue because a large Oval crowd booed them and felt they were being taken advantage of when the umpires removed the players from the field for the final time on a day with bad weather.
He was already out, having scored a rapid-fire 86 in circumstances that should have suited Sri Lanka after they had won the toss, his pitches having laid the foundation for England's amazing 221 for 3 from simply 44.1 overs possible on the opening day of the third and final Exam. Given the scoreline- and story- with Ollie Pope making a stubborn run-a-ball 103 no up, Duckett felt spectators had got their money's value.
At the conclusion of a day that had included a previous halt for poor lighting that lasted nearly three hrs through the center of the day and another stoppage just before 6pm that sparked the irate crowd's outburst and ultimately resulted in the call for stumps that were called half an hour later, Duckett said," I think they saw quite a nice week cricket in the short amount of time it was."
" That's living in England and playing cricket in England, they're the conditions. We are the ones playing if the cricket gets really darker and more unsafe, even though it's really simple to support and want to see more of it. I did make a prank saying if they wanted to bowl twice bowlers before breakfast they could perform. They were n't conditions for that. Both sides did it at Old Trafford, went twice roll, but when the lights were on and the game was nipping around a little, the judges were taking us off and we're going to have to go with their guidelines".
Conditions that did n't appear to be significantly different from those that came with an on-time start appeared particularly contentious during the earlier interruption. While the people were off for the first day, the sky turned darker and a gentle rain shower replaced it, but the light returned in an afternoon session lasting from 3.10pm to 5.10pm, which was as good as it had been all day. It signaled the end of the world as the doom threatened to gain.
Duckett claimed that the batters were not asked ahead of either delay because the judges had already ruled out the athletes ' movements, and that despite giving no sign that he wanted to get off for the first, he had to" began again" as a result, he was resigned to having to abide by their decision.
" I'm sure if it was that same Aussie attack last summer, bowling in those conditions, you'd probably want get off the field", Duckett added. When those lights are on, they are fully activated, and the ball starts swinging and bouncing around a little more, "it does have a big impact." To be honest, it's got nothing to do us. You do n't really get the option any more. If the umpires take you off you've got to go with their decision".
Sri Lanka had chosen a pace-heavy attack by phasing out spinner Prabath Jayasuriya, and they had obviously missed a trick by failing to take early wickets in overcast conditions and heavy rain in the morning.
Sri Lanka's fast-bowling coach, Aaqib Javed, blamed his charges for failing to carry the conditions and failing to carry them out as a result.
" What we did wrong is we did n't get the good areas because there was a lot going on in the mind,' oh this is the best day of swing bowling,' and that chance of taking wickets and sometimes trying to calm them down, excitement levels, it's sometimes too much", he said. " So far I think we've been doing really good with the new ball, the bowlers, but today I would say they got carried away with the expectations. When you have high expectations, then you go down very quickly because there are bowlers looking at each other, ]saying ] ' oh my God, that was the best opportunity, missed it!'
The bowlers will rest tomorrow morning and come up with something better than this because there is still a lot in this game. We got it wrong in the morning with excitement, overexcitement, I would say."
Asitha Fernando was wicketless for 58 runs from 14 while Lahiru Kumara and Vishwa Fernando both managed 81 runs in 12.1 overs. Milan Rathnayake was the other wicket-taker with 1 for 34.
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