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Bank 113

Sri Lanka in their own back yard is not the best draw that England could have had, but there is hope. The Sri Lankan batting is not long - but the top 4 are very very good players, but if England could take 2 or 3 early scalps then there is definitely hope.

Scoring a decent total is, however, a different story, SL have the slinger Malinga and the mystery (even though he has been playing for ages) of Murali & Mendis, and a collapse is therefore possible at any time.

Sri Lanka look the obvious favourites, but so did South Africa.

Malinga is likely to open the bowling and although he has a lot more control than Shaun Tait he does tend to bowl the odd full toss, the odd wide one and the odd rank long hop (although a very quick long hop).

LAY England 1st over runs 0-3 to win £10 @ 2.62 (risk 16.20)
BACK England most sixes £7 @ 2.16