There is England international Mark Wood has been judged begins with the second Test from August 28 at Lord’s. Ollie Stone was called up to replace him in the XI.
Previously after Leicestershire pacer Josh Hull, Wood’s waiver confirmed was named In the England squad for the second Test.
England won the first Test by five wickets in Manchester after a spirited performance from Sri Lanka.
Joe Root scored an unbeaten 62 to lead England to a five-wicket victory in the first Test against Sri Lanka.
Contributions from Daniel Lawrence (34), Harry Brook (32) and Jamie Smith (39) brought them closer to victory.
Meanwhile, England captain Ben Stokes remains Dropped out of the test group. Ben Stokes has been sidelined for the remainder of the English summer after suffering a left calf tear during The Hundred.. This means that he will do Left out of the second Test against Sri Lanka also.
Meanwhile, Ollie Pope will continue to lead the team in his absence. He won his first Test as captain in Manchester.
He will now look to win at Lord’s and make it a series win. Meanwhile, there will be Ollie Stones to sleep his first Test in three years. He played his last Test against New Zealand at Edgbaston in 2021.
England are fourth in the WTC points table, Sri Lanka fifth
In the absence of Ben Stokes, Joe Root will continue to be the leading batsman in the side. He scored 42 and 62 in the two innings of the Test match.
The Sri Lankan bowlers batted well at him in two innings and restricted the other shots decently. also.
Speaking of Sri Lanka, they came with good performance in first Test. After scoring 236 in the first innings, they scored 326 in the second innings innings.
England scored 358 in the first innings and managed to chase down the score after an early hiccup in the second innings.
England are fourth in the WTC points table going into the second Test and Sri Lanka is fifth. The hosts are on a four-game winning streak the winner three against the West Indies and the first Test against Sri Lanka.
From Lankaran about On the other hand, they lost to Pakistan to start the campaign. Then they won two against Bangladesh and now they have it lost to England in the first test.
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Lankaran goalkeeper Dinesh Chandimal though he was not too disappointed after the defeat saying so that they can be very proud of the performance.
‘Not because of the result as a team, but the way we played in this game is unbelievable. We lost three wickets in the first half hour on the first day. Milan (Rathnayake) and Dhananjaya batted brilliantly and took us through the game,” Chandimal said.
He even more Asitha Fernando and Prabath Jayasuriya thanked the visitors for bringing them back to the competition in first Test. Fernando took six wickets in the first Test while Jayasuriya five.
“As far as we come to the bowling, Asita and Prabath did a tremendous job throughout the innings. So we have a lot of positives so I’m sure we can put up a good fight again at Lord’s and I’m sure we can win a game here before we go back to Sri Lanka,” he said.
England are playing with an 11-man squad for the second Test against Sri Lanka
Ben Duckett, Dan Lawrence, Ollie Pope (captain), Joe Root, Harry Brook (vice-captain), Jamie Smith (wicketkeeper), Chris Woakes, Gus Atkinson, Matthew Potts, Olly Stone, Shoaib Bashir
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