Moeen Ali and Adil Rashid have the experience but the hosts’ spinners could produce the unorthodox in Dambulla
It was a visit to Sri Lanka in late 2014 and a 5-2 series defeat that proved the circuit breaker for Alastair Cook’s time as the England one-day captain, with some shaky-looking plans ripped up on the eve of the World Cup but a grim campaign still resulting.
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Written by Ali Martin in Dambulla
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/oct/09/england-wary-sri-lanka-mystery-spinners-first-odi under the title “England need to be wary of Sri Lanka’s men of mystery in first ODI”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
