England BEATEN record-breaking thriller
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00:30 secrets, catching my teacher. Listen on BBC.com, the BBC app or wherever you get your BBC podcasts. You're listening to the TMS podcast from BBC Radio 5 Live. Into Harry Brook, looks for the reverse sweep. He's nailed it. It's going to the fine leg boundary. And that is a double century for Harry Brooke. An unbelievable innings here in Ravel Pindy from England's captain.
00:59 What a performance. performance from England's captain, 200 runs of 114 balls. Ingo's tongue is there now and he bowls to him. Slow ball. Is it straight down the ground? It's not going to come for six or is it going to come for six? It has come for six. It's just plopped over the boundary.
01:15 Sri Lanka have won by two wickets. You'll never see a game of ODI cricket quite like it. Extraordinary. Sri Lanka chasing down a target of 430 after Harry Brooke had smashed 202 off 116 balls to put England at 429 for 4 off their 50 overs. At the halfway stage, it was done. Surely there was no way that Sri Lanka could win the game, particularly when they found themselves 24 for 2
01:46 with their captain runout without having faced a ball. But two scores of 97, a wonderful 130 from Pavant Ratnaika, an England bowling that was wayward at times in the face of a barrage of Sri Lankan batting. With one ball to spare, Sri Lanka get the win after Janice Leannegay smashed six off Josh Tongue down the ground, finishes 61 not out. Tongue earlier in the over had taken two wickets in two balls.
02:16 And this was the ultimate, ultimate run chase from Sri Lanka to get their first win of the try series for England, played two, lost two. Where do we even go to wrap it all up? alongside me Jonathan Agnew, Alex Hartley, Stephen Finn. Oh dear, oh dear. Alex, well, put it this way. At the halfway stage, you said you'd need Artif Nawaz's shoes
02:40 that Sri Lanka were to get close and chase it down. What are you having them with? I'd like a bit of a doll to wash them down, yeah. Give me a bit of black doll and I'll... Maybe I'll do a shoey instead. Goodness, mate. I mean, what a game of cricket. Stephen Finn, we've been treated here.
02:56 Yeah, staggering. I mean, who'd be a bowler? what a crazy pitch for batting on the bounce was true. The ball just came on to the bat the entire day. And it just seemed to get better and better, actually, as the floodlights came on. Sri Lanka read those conditions perfectly. They wouldn't have liked to have been chasing as many as they were, but they won the toss and bold and backed themselves to chase down whatever England set them.
03:21 And they did it in remarkable fashion. And it seems forever ago that at the very top of the... the innings for Sri Lanka, Ivishka, Fernando, who ended up going on to get 97, was given out on 6.4 overs. I think that would have made it 30 for 3 for Sri Lanka.
03:41 He got a little scratch and inside edge on there that the umpire didn't spot. And from that moment forward, Sri Lanka just marched towards the total and it felt as though England were kind of keeping them in check, but every time they had to up the rate, every time they had to put pressure on the bowler,
03:57 every time they got a bad baller, there were a fair few. They put them all away and to the point where England just that frazzled by the end and had absolutely no answer. Second highest successful run chase in ODI history
04:10 behind that epic game at Johannesburg and 2006 between Australia and South Africa. A day where records fell left right and centre you're talking about 859 runs being scored. Agers, you've seen a huge amount of cricket over the years, but have you ever seen anything quite like that?
04:31 Well, it's right up there, isn't it? You know, it's always easy to criticise the bowlers. I want to say, well played to the groundsmen, first of all, because this has been a terrific pitch. You know, the batsmen from both sides just people come in, just totting about 36's 93-4s were struck today. Now, you know, you look at that. Let's say one thing.
04:55 Well, Sam Caron's had a poor day. He dropped a catch that he would catch 99 times out of 100 on the boundary. That was a big moment. And he's gone for, what, 103 of nine overs? I just think he's trying to be a bit too clever. He's trying to mix things up too much. He's got this moonball that we talk about. Well, okay.
05:15 But the trouble is by mixing it around, you actually lose your go-to. You're just varying your pace and your length and everything so much that you just lose that stock. ball and he was all over the place today. At others you know you can look at the bowling figures but but but the ball coming on to the bat as it did I think I think the main problem for England today was more was more width than much else if you look at the way that the batsmen the Sri Lanka batsmen scored their runs there was a lot hit through the
05:47 offside and that suggests width a lot of driving a lot of driving a lot of cutting through the offside that's that's the line that England bowl I don't think think was good today. There were some clever shots as well, of course, improvisation. But just the ball coming onto the bat as it did, and England's bowlers, I don't think bowling at the stumps enough, which is something actually that Harry Brooke said at the start of the game, that he felt they didn't do enough in the first match.
06:15 Didn't attack the stumps enough was his actual expression. Basically, as a translation, that means we didn't bowl straight enough. And I think that was the case again today. There's too much width. and Avishka opening the batting really plundered them through the offside Rathnaika ended up with what 130 he was rather in Avishka's shadow to start with
06:35 he let him play and when Avishka got out he stepped up his game Shanaka's 97 from 50 balls was outstanding he's the sort of the experienced player amongst them all and you thought in that last over when Lianagay couldn't get on the strike and Willalligay played that poor shot and got out if you'd look at the Sri Lankan dressing room
06:53 they thought the game was up. I mean, I think we all thought the game was up probably. Malinga Bowl first ball, tongue on a hat trick, momentum's back with England. A single taken down a third man, and bang, Liannegade has hit their slots that one. It just popped over the boundary of front of us down here. It's just terrific.
07:10 I mean, it's a perfectly paced, massive run chase that they've pulled off, and I'll tell you what, England will be in that dressing room. They'll be absolutely devastated having lost that. That is a game that you should nail down. four for two, chasing 4.30, you really should be winning the game from there, shouldn't you? Finney, what did he get wrong with the ball? Aga speaks about width? Yeah, I think that width as well. There were a lot of runs scored over fine leg. I'm
07:38 looking at the wagon wheels now. There were 72 runs in boundaries scored in the fine leg region off England's bowling. And a number of those were lifted up off the batter's hip and just helping it on its way over there. and that's where you go from being a little bit too wide and offering the cut, and then you come too straight and you offer that easy help on its way ball off the hip. So I don't think they hit that line in between those two enough.
08:06 If you hit that line that's in between the two, that's where you build pressure. That's where you force batters to hit across the line. And that's how they were going to get in trouble on this pitch. And I also think the game just completely got away from them. I've been in that position as a bowler before where you're rushing through your ovies, you get into the back of your mark quicker and quicker,
08:26 you're rushing through, then the ball is disappearing, and everything feels so frenetic and crazy. Could they have taken more time out the game? I mean, we've seen Rishab Pant in ODIs and T20s for India doing a shoelace or taking his pads off and just taking a breath and taking time out of the game. Could England, on reflection, when everything was becoming too much,
08:49 just taking a deep breath? One thing I don't think they can blame, Alex watching me as well. I haven't seen any sort of drying of the ball, no exaggerated towels coming out. It's a little bit of slipping in the field, but I would be disappointed if we heard too much about well, it was the dew that came down because we've all been at games where dew has really been a factor and where you see every ball is being dried on a towel. There's been none of that. I actually, actually it didn't see a towel out there. Yeah, no, it wasn't horrifically Jewy at all, was it? I mean, you can't blame the Jew isn't the only reason why you'd lose a game where you could score 429 anyway, is it? You know, there are ultimately other factors to that.
09:34 And, you know, I've finished talking about the wagon wheel of everything down to fine leg. I've just seen the wagon wheel for both teams, and it shows that both teams didn't bowl all that well, and it, you know, teams were hitting, both teams were hitting 360. It was a funny old game of cricket, and it was one of those where I just don't quite, know why. I know Josh Tong has ultimately been hit for six and England lost the game, but why he's got an over left? You know, why hasn't Atkinson come back? He's got three overs left. He only went for 57. I just, there were just too many mistakes for me today, and England had been sloppy in periods. They weren't at their best today. It's also interesting, I think, and I just thought Steve thinks of this. I'm thinking of Sam Caren here,
10:17 who's broken his own record, by the way, is the most expensive in one day international cricket. He's broken his own record of 98. He's gone for 103. But if you're, you know, see, if you're bowling and it's not your day, you're not bowling well, you're not hitting it. You're not hitting your spot and everything else. Your confidence is going. Your head drops and he dropped a catch. You take him off, you know.
10:40 The fact that Atkinson's got three left, a tongue's got one left. I just think it was a mistake going back to Sam Cullen again at that far end. He just did not, he was not bowling well today. No, it felt like stubbornness. Confidence goes. Sorry? It felt like stubbornness, didn't it? A little bit at that stage.
10:57 And Brooke saying, no, I trust you. I back you to be the person who gets us through this tricky moment. And it did backfire. And I think we have to remember Sam Curen has not played competitive cricket. He's been out injured. And he's coming to this. And that makes that decision even more strange because he hasn't been in that competitive mode that the other bowlers have been.
11:20 Gus Atkinson. bowed just seven overs. What's the thinking there, Alex? That seems odd. Well, that's what I was just saying. I don't really understand why him and Josh Tong have got overs left. Being England's opening bowlers, all I can put it down to is the fact that he's not a death bowler, that he opens the bowling and can ball in the middle, and then that's it.
11:38 I cannot think of any other reason as to why he's not bowled at the death other than he isn't a death bowler for England. Yeah, and plenty of questions. Because, Finney, go on. I just think this might make him. England questioned the balance of their team. And I think it's been exacerbated by the fact that the top order scored all the runs today with Brooke with that amazing 202.
12:02 How long ago does that feel that he scored that double hundred? But we've had still in the Hutch today, Curran, Cox, Overton, Dawson. That's almost too much batting for an ODI team, I feel. And I think that balance of mixing a match in the all-rounders over, especially towards the back end there, is what. what has shifted the momentum so heavily in Sri Lanka's favour. I think my preference would be in the best ODI team that I played in before we got to that beyond 2015 was we backed the top six to score a bulk of the runs.
12:37 You had an all-rounder in there who would be Will Jacks in this team that is your spare bowler and then you have your bowlers and you guys who are guaranteed to buy you 10 overs. Four front line quick bowlers. I feel like it. I just feel like that gives you more options. And there at the death, you're not guessing who's going to be your death bowler. You've got those spots nailed down in the team. I don't think you need as much depth in batting as England had today.
13:02 At the halfway stage, I thought we'd be spending this podcast discussing one of the great England innings. And that was Harry Brooks, 202 from 116 balls. It was phenomenal. And it was almost a computer game batting agers. it was one of the best one day things you'll ever see it was it was a wonderful innings and it wasn't slogging it wasn't it was it was a ruthless innings
13:28 as we were saying he sort of dismembered the attack it was a really clever innings from such a talented such a talented batsman third man fine leg up okay I'll reverse sweep you I'll ramp you oh right okay so we'll bring mid off and mid on up then and we'll drop those two back bang hit it over the top
13:46 you know he just played with field really it was it was it was it was an incredible thing's 202 from 116 balls 21 4s 10 6s you know that to score well to score to score to score 429 and lose is it seems extraordinary but to score a double hundred and to lose the game he's he's broken a record too so it was a rather but a happier one than Sam Currens he's broken the record for the most runs in boundaries in an innings so that's actually goes past job Boss Butler, who was previously a hundred and 244 runs in boundaries out of his 202 today.
14:26 Great innings. It was a great innings. First time that somebody scored a double hundred and been on the losing side, perhaps unsurprisingly, in a one day international. The TMS podcast from BBC Radio 5 Live. It felt like everything I believed in was suddenly collapsing. This is the story of an Islamic boarding school in Indonesia with a dark sea. of the school's head teacher. This was someone I respected above anyone else.
14:58 And the investigation led by students, he's trying to silence. If this is leaked to the media, I'll be destroyed. This is World of Secrets, catching my teacher. Listen on BBC.com, the BBC app or wherever you get your BBC podcasts. Stephen, when you look at anything's like Brooks and 202, it was phenomenal. Do you then look at some of the others in the England line up, bantan out for 50, root for 69, duck it 29,
15:31 and question whether somebody else could have gone on, or do you just actually just think, you know, you've seen one brilliant innings and then with the ball England have been found wanting? Yeah, I mean, if we were to sit here and criticising them for not scoring enough runs, we might be questioned as pundits, but I understand. the sentiment, but I think they fulfilled their roles. Bantam would be disappointing that he didn't
15:57 make the most of a good start again on what was a really good batting pitch and seemed to be getting better as he got out there. But we can only marvel in how good that innings by Brooke and the partnership that he had with Jacks, who seems to be doing this lower order hitting and finishing roles so well since he's been asked to do it by England. But no, I'd say that the top order actually the innings up nicely by playing sensibly and allowing Brooke the platform to be able to do what he did. So no, not too much criticism, more disappointment in particular for Banton, who again had an opportunity to nail down that opener spot and maybe hasn't quite done it again. I agree with that. I mean, that's twice now that he's missed out and he's played really well both
16:44 time. That's a disappointing thing. Sort of a weak shot two days ago. Today he was just a strange one. He was as if he was literally giving long off catching practice. And here it comes, Chip, straight at him. He hardly had to move a muscle. If he'd followed through it, it had gone for six. He could have said it along the ground if he was only going for one. It was just a disappointing end again to a promising innings. He's had a couple of chances now to nail down that slot.
17:12 And twice now he's given that away. But looking at the batting overall, you know, he scored. We go back to that point again. 430. It's difficult to be critical. Just to point out that as an individual disappointment, I think, is perfectly fair. Ben Duckett's was a funny old innings. He just, he had no timing today at all. He's woken up and got out the wrong side of bed or something. Couldn't time the ball to save his life. 29 from 39. That's, again, batsmen have those issues. But route 69 from 66, Jack's 66 from 30. You know, it's, you know, one wonderful batting.
17:51 against an attack, like England, was not consistent enough, on a very, very good surface on a fast outfield, not big boundaries, and so runs are plenty. Yeah, extraordinary number of runs. 859 of them, 123 boundaries over the course of it. We'll be hearing from the captains in due course, but Stephen, what about where this leaves England in the Tri-Series? Played to Lost 2.
18:17 They've now got to play that match in Lahore on Sunday against Pakistan. It's must win. Absolutely. Must win. They have to dust themselves down. They'll have a travel day, then a practice day to realign. I think a change of conditions might help them. You'd imagine that Adil Rashid will come straight back into the team,
18:35 depending on what we're presented with there. But if there's anything drier than what we've seen in Roe-Pindi, then you'd imagine Rashid will come in. And yet, they just have to find a way of parking this, moving on, assess it and review it as they deem fit and maybe look at that balance of team. Right, let's get some weird. The Haw could be, sorry, just going to look at another pitch like this. I mentioned about England, 3.50-od against Australia and losing.
19:04 A little bit of grass, some decent pace on it. You know, we could see some more runs there, I think. Let's get some reaction then. The Sri Lanka captain Kussel Mendes has been chatting to Artif Noir. Kusel, what an incredible game of cricket, an unbelievable chase from your side. Just talk me through what you're feeling right now. I have very confidence and I don't have words about you. I'm saying.
19:29 But anyway, battles are done really well. Farn Ratna, I mentioned in Avishkafana and do batter really well. And Dasun Shahangha hitting so good and Janit Liena finishing well. I think that's bigot is pretty good. Then they guys handled really well in the pressure situation and everything. I have no word. I have no words, what you are going to say. But anyway, they guys better really well.
19:53 I enjoy a lot. 430 is the target that England set you. No team before today had scored 400 in a one-day international in Pakistan. Now two teams have. But at that halfway stage, when you're set 430, what are you thinking? What do you say to your team in the dressing room? Yeah, I think we are spoken every day. We have a talent.
20:12 In some areas, we have to improve every game. There are sometimes in the bowling unit and betting some days, the batting unit and fielding. Then I think everyone knows we have a talent now in the one-day cricket. Then everybody has an ability to play one-day cricket. Now I think they're very important this today game. We are going forward. I think everyone now believe we can do it anything.
20:36 Then that's the main thing. I think I'm mostly I think I'm very happy. Then everybody done really very good job in the today game. What did you think of the pitch? Oh, I think we not expect the 400 wickets, my pitch, but they guys better really well. Then first 20 overs, our fast bowler bowled really well. Then unfortunately, they guys better really well, Harry Brooks better really well. And I think the speech is so good, then betters very like to play these features.
21:12 It's an incredible achievement. How are you guys going to celebrate? No, but we have a celebration, celebrate, but we focus on another couple of matches. Then we switch off now, then I have to another two, four days we have come to the next match. We switch on. I think we have to play the same momentum and same thing the next match also. Well, you're part of history today, one of the most extraordinary games of cricket. Certainly the best game of cricket I've ever seen live.
21:43 fantastic performance from both teams but congratulations for coming out on top and unbelievable change yeah thank you very much thank you thank you as kusolmendis the captain of shir Lanka Kusel Mendes captain of Sri Lanka what have you seen Agnes well on a bizarre day you know how they have this podium
21:59 packed full of prizes to be handed out Gus Atkinson has been awarded the wicket of the match and didn't take a wicket no Harry Brooke got electrifying bats at the match he got this given this key which he's smiled at the camera they threw it away it's been a well extraordinary finish but yeah how did he get wicket of the match he didn't take a wicked and he didn't bat well we'll be we'll be hearing from harry broke shortly
22:29 the the england captain did do anything but take a catch he did take a catch did he no no he didn't do anything he didn't contribute to a single wicket but he's one wicket of the match Maybe that's why. It's got off in a pocketful of rupees. I got the answer. Gus Atkinson, it was the fingertips for the runout at the non-striker's end. Oh, brilliant. Oh, right.
22:51 So you got it for that. There you go. Run out of the match. Yeah. It's been a good day for Harry Brooke in many respects, isn't it? But what's he going to learn from this, though, Akers, from a captain's point of view? He's got a lot. He's got a job to do.
23:07 You know, well, look, his batting was brilliant. How do we look at the decisions as captain? Going back to Curran was a mistake. Not bowling Atkinson and Tongue, their allocation of overs was a mistake. He can't be responsible for the lines at the bowler's bowl. He can try and set fields and they're supposed to bowl at them and bowl to them. And I think you could say that they let him down from that perspective today. But I think there were a couple of errors there as far as those bowling
23:42 decisions were concerned. I mean, if you're going for 103 of nine overs and you look at Atkinson, both seven, tongue didn't complete nine, that that has to be a miscalculation, I think. Let's hear from the England captain Harry Brooks being chatting to Artie. Harry Brooke, an incredible game of cricket to be a part of. Obviously, it's going to be heartbreaking to come out the wrong side of it, but you're part of history today, an unbelievable game of cricket. Yeah, heartbreaking. I think you've hit the nail on the head there. It's very disappointing that we haven't been able to defend 430, but that's life, that's cricket. We can take some good things and obviously a lot of things to work on as well. What was the feeling like in the
24:28 camp at the halfway point? 430 the target you guys hit set Sri Lanka. That's, you're feeling ultra-confident at that point, surely. Definitely. You don't see many teams chase down 430 and And hats off to Sri Lanka, they've played exceptionally well. We haven't quite executed our skill well enough with the ball. And again, they've just played an absolute blind of there. They certainly have no. What was the reaction like in the dressing room just now with the team? It's got to be really tough one to take.
24:56 Yeah, definitely. It's extremely disappointing. But we know where we went wrong. We'll have a good chat about it now, I'm sure, and over the next couple of days, we've got a good opportunity in the next couple of games to really try and get to that. final in Lahore and again Sri Lanka, hats off to them. They've played a phenomenal game there and some exceptional performances from many of them. Those are records broken today, but you
25:20 broke one of them as well. I know it's probably tough to take solace from it, but you became the first England batter to score a double hundred one-day international cricket. Can you enjoy that still? Unfortunately, it doesn't matter now. I thought we were going to be in a good position, but yeah, unfortunately, it doesn't even count. Yeah, I can imagine it's tough right now. What do you say to your team? What do you say to your team after a loss like this? You're still in the tournament. You're still alive. Two more games to play in Lahore and a chance to get to the final still. There were so many positive things to take from this performance as well, no doubt.
25:50 What do you say to your team to motivate them? I think just learn from this. Like I said before, you don't see many sides chase down 400 plus scores, and they've played exceptionally well, but we've got a lot of learnings to take from this. We've got a great opportunity in the next couple of games to try and solidify a spot in the final, which is our main aim in this series. and yeah we've got to come back stronger, lift the chins up and crack on.
26:13 Word on the pitch. Phenomenal wicket, as we saw. Nearly 900 runs scored on that pitch is a, yeah, it's an incredible game of cricket, an incredible game to be a part of, unfortunately on the wrong side of it, but still a very good spectacle. Well, you played a really good cricket today, it just really was an extraordinary game. It's a real shame there had to be a loser at all today,
26:34 but go well for the rest of the tournament, Ari, and very well battered yourself. Thank you. Thoughts of Harry Brooke at the end of an extraordinary days cricket with Sri Lanka chasing 430s. He says Stephen Finn doesn't happen very often. Well, no, it's the second highest run chase in ODI history. How do England pick themselves up from that? I think they have to go away and the way you pick yourself up after something like this is review the good things that you did.
26:59 And clearly a lot of what they did in the first innings was good. How they started with the ball in the second to have Sri Lanka two down early was also good. But then I think what England really need to look at is what their method is on good surfaces for taking wickets through the middle overs because that's two games in a row now where they've allowed people to build partnerships towards a crescendo at the end of the innings that if you let teams do that by not having an idea or not having a clear thought out plan how to take wickets in those overs on good surfaces you'll be punished and they've been punished two games in a row. Agas, what are you saying if you're in that England dressing room? Well, although he didn't say it directly, I thought he was pointing the finger quite firmly at the bowlers. Executing plans he talked about, and that's obviously right, isn't it?
27:48 As we've said earlier, they did not bowl a tight enough line. That's what I felt anyway. They allowed Sri Lanka the freedom to play particularly through the offside. A lot of boundaries. I've not got the figures here, but a lot of boundaries were struck through the offside and straight long off and round down to third man.
28:07 A lot of runs came through there and that's width. You know, Batsman occasionally must step out and give itself a little bit of rumour hits over there, but that's generally down to width, and that's what they've got to look at. I mean, you know, Jopher Archer's not here. We're talking about, you know, wicket takers in the middle of the innings. He's clearly somebody who would normally be playing,
28:30 but they do have to come up with plans. they do have to stop these big partnerships from forming and the way that England bowl today generally was disappointing. But I think we've kind of touched it all really. One or two mistakes as far as the selection of the bowling at the time was concerned. I'd say if we keep pointing at Sam Curran. But I mean those figures do stand out, don't they? And you wonder why he bowed more than Tung and Atkinson.
29:00 and the lack of cricket also that he's had, you know, to be fair to him, you must take that into account as well. But, you know, we inevitably pick holes in the England team for losing. Let's make sure we give enough credit to Sri Lanka for knocking that off. You go out there and you're 24 for 2 and you knock off 430 to win a game. That is an outstanding performance and we mustn't lose sight of that. podcast from BBC Radio 5 Live. The Football Daily Podcasts with Rick Edwards and Lloyd Griffith. We are here and we're back.
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