England roll hapless Sri Lanka | ENG v SL | T20 World Cup
The Grade Cricketer
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4.7 • 518 Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2026
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Jacks and his new blonde lid star as England completely dismantle co-hosts Sri Lanka.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, very much a game of two halves in this one, England against Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka against India. |
| 0:04.2 | The first half of England's innings really was me trying to cook toast, |
| 0:08.9 | and the second half was Big John ordering a Chinese in Dubai. |
| 0:13.0 | This calls for a bud. Pezah in sport, obviously your team loses most of the time. |
| 0:28.4 | That's how sport works, but when your team wins, you must sing from the rooftops. |
| 0:32.6 | You must celebrate and be raucous and insufferable and unbearable online especially. |
| 0:38.9 | But at the same time, you must take your licks when your team loses. |
| 0:41.9 | Excuse me. |
| 0:43.5 | I found this game as an Australian fan particularly difficult to watch because Sri Lanka were |
| 0:50.8 | fucking shit for most of it. |
| 0:58.0 | And England played well enough to, you know, get 146 and then completely steamroll, Sri Lanka. |
| 1:05.2 | That's all I've seen in the game. |
| 1:06.9 | Everybody was very clear about what was happening in the first innings. |
| 1:12.0 | I mean, the boots were being polished wound up ready to absolutely sink them in to the rectum of the english cricket team |
| 1:19.8 | and i was in the front lines baby there was a lot of people on the front lines do we have ashwin's |
| 1:26.0 | tweet there chucky i don't know if I might have. |
| 1:28.7 | I don't know. |
| 1:29.1 | Yeah, I mean, England refusing to play the brand of cricket they're capable of playing. |
| 1:33.9 | Happens most of when there's uncertainty around the group. |
| 1:36.0 | Now, by the way, we have gone early too, right? |
| 1:40.4 | And everyone went early in this game. |
| 1:43.0 | Turns out England had 50 too many. |
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