Sri Lanka vs West Indies, Match 39 - Live Cricket Score, Commentary

Series: ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 Venue: Riverside Ground, Chester-le-Street Date & Time: Jul 01, 10:30 AM LOCAL

Angelo Mathews turned hero, striking with his first ball bowled in international cricket since 2017 © AFP

It really doesn't get tastier. I'll let you recover from this, and you have less than 15 hours, for tomorrow promises to be yet another cracker, hopefully with lots and lots of intent. It's no dead rubber, remember, and remember to join us. Until next time, ta ta!!

Dimuth Karunaratne | Winning skip: "Suddenly Angelo put his hand up and said that he'll bowl those two overs. He had the confidence in himself to bowl those crucial overs."

Jason Holder | Losing skip: "Probably, a bit slow off the blocks. Sloppy on the field and gave away a few extra runs. In a format like this, these things matter. You've got to be better than that."

Nobody from the losing side gets the MoM these days anymore. That trend ain't changing, Avishka Fernando gets it.

Well played Avishka Fernando got full value in the end.. Malinga the stand out again and a master stroke of Mathews biking at that stage .. phew!!!

have been in self-destruct mode today

fifty! It comes off just 57 deliveries 👏 |

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Durham is England's Wellington. It's so damn windy that the camera guys are having some real problems in well, stopping themselves from flying away. Right, just to summarize, here are the changes -- IN (WI): Shannon Gabriel | OUT (WI): Kemar Roach .. IN (SL): They have three of them, and even Karunaratne doesn't remember.

Okay, the Windies are bowling. Meanwhile, as you wait, here's the bbb, here's the preview, and here's the shock of a breaking news.

West Indies gave up on the night Carlos Brathwaite almost asked us to remember his name again. All he needed was a couple of centimeters and we would've been good. But no, Boult and his antics at the boundary, were just too good.

Match #39 -- Chester-le-Street: Everything, like with life, has now come down to pride. Hello, we're in for the the first official fully dead rubber of the tournament, where anything, anyhow, will make no difference. Yesterday ruined it all for Sri Lanka. They had their hopes on India, and rightly so, given the brand of cricket they'd played all tour. But England found their earlier brand, and India, a brand nobody was particularly a fan of.