Somehow England managed to win the first test at Cardiff. An awful display of batting led to the visitors achieving just 82 runs in their second innings.
Jonathan Trott got a double hundred (he's South African, and no matter how much he goes on about being proud to put on an England shirt, he's still South African), Alastair Cook and Ian Bell both got hundreds. A great batting performance against a poor attack. In fact, the Sri Lankans barely look interested in this series. I get the impression that limited overs cricket, be it 20 or 50 overs, is far more important to them.
Pietersen failed again - at some point he will get dropped, it's inevitable. For a top order batsman he is not scoring the amount of runs that he should. Australia got their fingers burnt with Ponting, Hussey, Katich etc. Let's not England go the same way. They have all been good players, but when they're past it, drop them. There's no room for sentiment in top class sport.
England have a chance to win the series comfortably now, and let's face it, the series was never going to be a massive crowd puller.
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