Women’s ODI World Cup | Can England or Sri Lanka batters get going at the Premadasa Stadium?

The R. Premadasa Stadium right here has been a panacea for the overdosing-on-runs excessive that ODI cricket has discovered itself in, with weather-dictated sluggish burners within the Girls’s ODI World Cup.

Technically adept sides like Australia and India have discovered the going powerful with strips coated to protect in opposition to the rain making an already spin-favouring floor decrease and slower.

England — with two wins in two video games within the match — is not going to take Sri Lanka, regardless of all its coherence issues, evenly, as the edges conflict in a Girls’s ODI World Cup fixture right here on Saturday.

In 20 conferences within the format, two matches didn’t yield a outcome, and Sri Lanka surprised England solely as soon as, within the 2013 World Cup in India — a one-wicket triumph that Chamari Athapaththu’s aspect will do nicely to revisit in a match filled with comebacks.

England opener Tammy Beaumont was candid in regards to the dearth of left-handers within the batting order, with solely Linsey Smith representing the southpaws and due to this fact being given further assist with method within the nets.

However what England will likely be cautious about is Sri Lanka’s left-arm bowlers, who’ve a harmful skill to drop tempo on the ball, making batting on surfaces like these even more durable. Within the nets, the aspect educated with younger boys, doubtlessly from the under-14 academy, to simulate the motion and tempo of a few of Sri Lanka’s mainstays.

With its ‘residence’ World Cup fixture in opposition to Australia washed out a number of days in the past, Sri Lanka will likely be raring to go because it seeks its first win within the match.

The aspect had an prolonged fielding session, engaged on excessive catches in opposition to the floodlights and their response occasions contained in the circle.

Coach Rumesh Ratnayake revealed forward of the fixture that there was palpable pleasure among the many staff. A brief spell spent cuddling the resident canine on the venue forward of their coaching block was a visual blessing in disguise.