The Cricket Thread 2014

[Dave Cooper please]

Superb from Root and Prior, this pitch will be excellent throughout tomorrow probably not bad on day three but I wouldn't fancy batting on it last. Get 400+ and we're in a very good position to win this.

[PaulWinch again]

Yeah excellent from Root and Prior, that score has probably saved Prior's international career.

[Chris Jameson]

Proud day for Yorkshire seeing our Joe score a century and Fred and Bernard getting to play for Brazil in the World Cup.

[Villan For Life]

Reserve keeper behind the stumps for Sri lanka this morning. Jayawardene injured his hand in the warm ups and is off to hospital.

[Villan For Life]

They've certainly gone for it today with 100 runs coming off 18 overs for the loss of two wickets. Hopefully we can reach 500 something which we did not manage in 2013.

[PaulWinch again]

Good to see us being aggressive and taking the game to a team and actually passing 400.

[taylorsworkrate]

500 up.

We barely scored 500 in the whole winter.

[taylorsworkrate]

Come on, we've got more than enough runs now.

[Chris Jameson]

Come on you lot, when England are struggling there are plenty of posts on here, been a bit quiet today!

Brilliant from Joe Root, he'll be batting at 7 next Test.

[PaulWinch again]

Excellent from Root and the middle/lower order in general. Need to make some inroads with the ball now.

[Villan For Life]

We're really going to miss Swann on this pitch. Cook only trusted Ali to bowl three overs, it looks like he will go the same way as Kerrigan in the Oval test last year. If Cook doesn't trust him with the ball then why pick him in part for his bowling?

Sri Lanka looked well set last night. It could be a long day.

[PaulWinch again]

This pitch is just pretty dead.

[Chris Jameson]

#Yorkshire

[paul_e]

Fair play to Ballance, earned the right to accelerate and get his century.  Big mention for Jordan as well, he played a very important innings to give us a bit of stability, which led to the big scoring towards the end, I'm really impressed by his attitude when he's come in.

[PaulWinch again]

Well done Ballance and Jordan, excellent work. Cook continues to be a concern.