After winning in South Africa, England’s test team can show how much progress it has made in a three-match home series against Sri Lanka to start its summer season. England’s achievement in knocking South Africa off the top of the test rankings at the beginning of the year makes it obvious that Alastair Cook’s team is favored to win against the touring Sri Lankans. Compared to England’s eye-catching victory in South Africa, Sri Lanka has lost four of its last five series and goes into the opening test at Headingley on Thursday without injured seam bowler Dhammika Prasad, a hero for the Sri Lankans the last time they toured England. England has a major absence of its own: It’ll be the team’s first test since batsman James Taylor’s shock retirement from all cricket because of a heart condition. James Vince is expected to replace Taylor in the middle order and make his debut in the series opener, but other than that enforced change, England is ready to start the series with the bulk of the team that outplayed the then top-ranked South Africa a few months ago. The talk in South Africa during that series was that this England unit… Read full this story
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