ENG vs SL, 2nd T20I: Fantasy Cricket Tips, Playing XI Updates, Pitch & Weather Report

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Sri Lanka and England will play against each other in the second match of the 3-matchT20I series at Sophia Gardens, Cardiff on June 24, 2021. England have taken a 1-0 lead in the series against the visitors with a comfortable eight-wicket victory where they achieved the target with 17 deliveries to spare. Perhaps, the one-side nature of the contest was no big surprise: this was the No. 1 ranked T20 side playing at home against the No. 8 ranked side, after all.

Pitch and Weather Report

The Pitch is balanced and is more favorable to pacers than spinners. Overcast with clouds at 17.22C.

Venue Stats (T20 International)

Top 2 Wicket-Keeper picks

1) Kusal Perera – He made 30 from 26 in the last match against England with a boundary and six.

Matches – 48

Runs-1323

Highest Score-8

Average- 28.14

2) Jos Buttler – He was Man of the Match against Sri Lanka in the yesterday’s game as he had smashed 68 from 55 with 8 boundaries and 1 six.  He is in his prime form with a consistent score.

Matches – 80

Runs – 1791

Highest Score – 83*

Average – 31.42

Top 4 Batsman Picks

1) Jason Roy – Roy was just after Buttler as he scored 36 from 22 and helped his team towards the victory against Sri Lanka in the first T20I.

Matches – 44

Runs -1070

Highest Score -78

Average – 24.31

2) Dawid Malan – He may be new to play against Sri Lanka but with an excellent average of runs in this format, Malan remains a player to be noted for upcoming matches.

Matches – 25

Runs – 1010

Highest Score -103

Average – 48.09

3) Jonny Bairstow – He scored an unbeaten 13 of 12 in the first game and has good form in this format.

Matches – 52

Runs – 1086

Highest Score – 86

Average – 29.5

4) Danushka Gunathilaka – Danushka made 3^rd highest runs in the yesterday’s match and has quite good experience in this format.

Matches – 28

Runs-561

Highest Score-57

Average- 20.77

Top 4 Bowler Picks

1) Adil Rashid – The leggie took 2 wickets with an economy of just 4.3 in his 4 overs.

Matches – 58

Wickets -57

Economy – 7.87

2) Isuru Udana – Out of two wickets taken, he took the worthless wicket of Dawid Malan as the game had already got slipped through their hands.

Matches – 31

Wickets – 25

Economy – 8.63

3) Chris Jordan – He finished with an economy of 7.2 in his 4-over spell and picked one wicket.

Matches – 61

Wickets-71

Economy-8.83

4) Chris Woakes – Woakes went wicketless in the game but bowled economically well with an economy of just 4.7

Matches – 9

Wickets – 7

Ecocomy – 8.9

Top 3 All-rounder Picks

1) Dasun Shanaka – He scored half century from 44 balls and became the reason, his team could at least put a modest target for England.

Matches – 41

Runs – 533

Highest Score – 54

Average – 16.65

Wickets – 11

Economy – 7.47

2) Sam Curran – He took 2 wickets with an economy of 8.3 against the visitors.

Matches – 14

Runs-66

Highest Score-24

Average- 13.20

Wickets-13

Economy-8.57

3) Liam Livingstone – He has lot of potential to perform for England in this series. He took a wicket against Sri Lanka in his last match.

Matches – 3

Runs -16

Highest Score -16

Average – 8

Wickets -1

Economy – 4.5

Predicted Playing 11

England:

Jason Roy, Jos Buttler (wk), Dawid Malan, Jonny Bairstow, Eoin Morgan (c), Liam Livingstone, Sam Curran, Chris Jordan, Chris Woakes, Adil Rashid, Mark Wood

Sri Lanka:

Danushka Gunathilaka, Avishka Fernando, Kusal Perera(c)(wk), Kusal Mendis, Dhananjaya de Silva, Dasun Shanaka, Wanindu Hasaranga, Isuru Udana, Akila Dananjaya, Dushmantha Chameera, Nuwan Pradeep

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