Bowling heavy Lankans face Batting heavy England in familiar Conditions

               The another spot for the semifinal berth in Group1 intensifies, as West Indies made it through by wining against Proteas. Now Proteas chances lies on the crucial encounter between England and srilanka, as they likely to face on each other for crucial contest on Saturday in Delhi.
              Srilanka chances lies high with two matches still play and one of them on Saturday will a virtual Knockout. But a loss will knock them out of the Contest, so far srilanka struggled with the bat in the matches played against Afghanistan and Westindes. Their bowling is where they look for inspiration, as spinners making most of damage on turning pitches.
                While England as their very concerns so far, with both of their wins came out of hard fought effort both with the bat and ball. Batting as been their strength with the depth they posses, but in their previous encounter against Afghan raised some doubts over their adaptability in spining conditions.
               Playing their both matches in Mumbai on a flat wicket may be the reason to their concerns, but they also should vary of the par score on an given surface. Where they struggled to estimate and lost against West Indies, while against Afghan they nearly gone through an phase of hell.
               One would say Lankans still building up an team in the batting order, but in big tournaments like this they need to show their spirit against various oppositions in a short time. The conditions are very of subcontinent in Delhi which they are  known to play at home and against England a good batting performance will pose some interesting scenarios in the group.
             The pitches so far in the tournament as their unique character, so as pitch at Delhi as enough assistance for spinners and to the batsmen as well. Both sides should aware of the par with surface slowing down a bit in the second Innings.
               England should use most of the experience from the previous encounter on the very pitch and also they should aware of Lankan underdog tag in the batting. While for Lankans once again their performance with bat will be a decisive factor. Meanwhile spinners from both sides will be in play and the contest will decere on batting of both the sides.