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England vs Sri Lanka on June 21

Eoin Morgan just raised the Birmingham roof with a stellar performance against Afghanistan and their bowlers too did a decent job to help the Three Lions register another big win. The great Lankan struggle for form goes a long way back and it doesn’t seem to end anywhere in the near future. We could call it a no-contest simply going by their recent form and one-on-one comparison. Sri Lanka got hammered at the hands of Australia previously and this time the challenge won’t get any easier. Pleasant weather prepares to greet these two sides in Leeds and it’ll be interesting to see if the Lankans invest on their spinners for this crucial encounter.

Best economical pick – Adding to Sri Lanka’s struggles will be Jofra Archer‘s form, who is in devastating touch right now. The speedster is hitting the perfect channels almost every game and is relishing bowling against the Asian sides apart from the odd bad game against Pakistan. He is in the zone where confidence levels are very high and morale is just good enough to make him push an extra yard every game.

Top captains & vice captains – Joe Root has been England’s best performer with the bat thus far. He has notched 367 runs in five matches at an average of 91.75 with a couple of centuries and as many half-centuries. Moreover, he has gotten those runs at a strike-rate of 99.72. Eoin Morgan gave a glimpse of his brutal self when he peeled the skin of the Afghan bowling attack. The southpaw plundered 17 sixes on Tuesday to score 148 runs. He also became the fastest centurion for England in the World Cup, surpassing Jos Buttler. In 5 games, the English captain has scored 249 runs at an average of 62.25.

Smart pick – No captain coming into this tournament had less than 500 ODI runs apart from Dimuth Karunaratne. There were so many doubts over his selection, but he managed to swim against the tide and churned out a couple of very good scores. His solid batting technique is helping him survive despite not playing an ODI for over four years. He missed out a century last game and will be desperate to get there in this match.

Cautions Pick – After the four-wicket haul that he picked up against Afghanistan, Nuwan Pradeep was back in action for the Australia game. However, he failed to repeat the same kind of heroics in this match and leaked a lot of runs. Aaron Finch particularly attacked him in that game and Pradeep couldn’t pick up any wickets. In his 10 overs, he gave away 88 runs at an economy rate of 8.80.

My XI – Joe Root (Captain), Eoin Morgan (Vice-Captain), Jofra Archer, Dimuth Karunaratne, Mark Wood, Chris Woakes, Moeen Ali, Kusal Perera, Jonny Baistow, Thisara Perera, Dhananjaya de Silva