CWC Day 23: England stumble to Sri Lanka ahead of big pressure games
Test Match Special
BBC
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🗓️ 21 June 2019
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
The Cricket World Cup cat is well and truly amongst the tournament pigeons as England suffer a second defeat of the group stage to bring Sri Lanka and Bangladesh back into the semi-final qualification picture. Michael Vaughan puts the shock loss down to failing to play intelligent cricket, Paul Farbrace says they didn't adapt to a slower pitch, and Eoin Morgan admits Sri Lanka would've been robbed had Ben Stokes seen his team home.
No blame apportioned to England's bowlers for the result, we get James Anderson's analysis on their success so far, and we catch up with a cricket-loving star from the Harry Potter films.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
| 0:04.9 | Available every day during the Cricket World Cup. |
| 0:07.9 | This is the TMS Podcasts from BBC Radio Five Life. |
| 0:30.0 | And now beaten by 20 runs, the World Cup needed an upset. |
| 0:33.6 | It's got one here at Headingway. |
| 0:40.4 | Well, well, well, welcome to Heading, |
| 0:42.4 | where if I had the first major upset of the tournament, |
| 0:44.9 | England beaten by Sri Lanka by 20 runs, |
| 0:47.1 | it's low to discuss on where it's gone wrong with England. |
| 0:50.0 | We'll get Jimmy Anderson's assessment of the bowling unit, |
| 0:52.5 | who will hear my chat with a star from the Harry Potter films, |
| 0:55.7 | but we'll kick off, of course, with a post-match force, |
| 0:58.3 | a call far brace and Michael Ford. |
| 1:00.4 | From BBC Radio Five Life, this is the TMS Podcasts at the Cricket World Cup. |
| 1:06.4 | Well, the cat amongst the pigeons, we thought 232 was |
| 1:11.7 | 62, probably 100 lights of being par. |
| 1:15.8 | The criticised Angelo Matthews have been two old-school dated. |
| 1:20.5 | Well, it's turned out to be enough. |
| 1:22.6 | England just have not played with any kind of smartness. |
| 1:25.8 | Johnny Bairstow out within that first open, |
| 1:28.0 | Vince playing a poor stroke, |
| 1:29.6 | and the game was 100 and 75. |
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