Ollie Pope returned to form on his Oval home ground with a first hundred as England captain on Friday's opening day of the third test against Sri Lanka.
Ollie Pope returned to form on his Oval home ground with a first hundred as England captain on Friday's opening day of the third test against Sri Lanka.
And England should arguably have had two century-makers on Friday with opener Ben Duckett, not for the first time, giving his wicket away after making 86. "To block that out and score an incredible hundred was so good," he added following Pope's 12th first-class hundred on his Surrey home ground.Root was fresh from two hundreds in a 190-run win at Lord's where he set a new England record of 34 test centuries.
It was not long before Duckett ramped Kumara for six over fine leg and uppercut him high over third ma, with all of Sri Lanka's four-man pace attack struggling to maintain a challenging line and length. "It might be a learning day for me but it's a shot I've been thinking of playing in test cricket for a long time. It felt like the right option."
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