Test Cricket. Sri Lanka v. England   (2nd test ended today, Thursday and 3rd starts next Tuesday)

Things are shaping up badly for England in the Test Series against Sri Lanka and cricket betting fans will perhaps have to look to individual performances or spread betting to hold their interest in the third Test. Having lost the first of the three and scraped a draw in Colombo, England go to Galle with a seriously uphill task to even the series and save face.

Apart from the huge threat from the bowling of record-holding Muralitheran, the ground at Galle was completely devastated in the Tsunami tragedy on Boxing Day 2004 and the first day of the third test match will be all but the third anniversary of the tragedy and the first game played there since the ground was completely rebuilt. It will be a poignant moment and Sri Lanka will be desperate to win as a commemoration to their lost fellow country folk.

Hope might come from the budding return to form of Cook and Pietersen and Harmison seems to have rediscovered his aggression while captain, Michael Vaughan is looking more solid by the day.

England have played well in this series and their current dire state has to be put down to the excellence of the Sri Lankan team. What’s more, England team confidence will be low when they get to Galle and grounds for optimism for a win, among online betting enthusiasts, are shaky indeed.