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“England haven’t had many bad days this summer. I still expect them to get over the line,” added Vaughan, who captained England in 51 of his 82 Tests.<\/p>\n
“England delight me a lot in the way they play. I like that they do things completely differently. But I sometimes watch and think ‘be careful because this game has a way of biting you’.<\/p>\n
“Don’t think you can do things no other player has done in the history of the game – dance down the wicket and whack an away-swinger over mid-off.<\/p>\n
“Don’t take the mickey out of the game. Be very, very careful. There are cricketing gods up there and in a year’s time there are tougher challenges.<\/p>\n
“I would ask England ‘were you on it all day like you would be against India and Australia?’ If they look themselves in the mirror and say they were, I would say they are lying. They weren’t on it today.”<\/p>\n
Harry Brook’s approach for his 19 was symptomatic of England’s wasteful morning.<\/p>\n
Brook was dropped on 12, then appeared to mock Sri Lanka’s plan of bowling wide of off stump before he drilled a catch to cover.<\/p>\n
And ex-England captain Sir Alastair Cook said Brook was an example of the hosts’ “complacent” approach.<\/p>\n
“Sri Lanka bowled in the channel outside off stump and he didn’t like it,” said Cook, the last England captain to win an Ashes series.<\/p>\n
“He was moaning to the umpire in jest that it was a bit boring and pretended to bat on sixth stump. An over later he slapped one straight to cover.<\/p>\n
“Rather than finding a method, he was more about trying to talk about it than deal with the situation.<\/p>\n
“There was an element of carelessness from England today. They could have been so far ahead there was no way Sri Lanka could have come back. I still think they will win this Test, but they have given Sri Lanka a sniff.”<\/p>\n
Olly Stone took two wickets and ran out Sri Lanka opener Dimuth Karunaratne with a direct hit.<\/p>\n
The fast bowler denied complacency played a part in England’s performance.<\/p>\n
“We’ve always said about taking the positive option,” said Stone. “On another day it goes another way and we get a few more runs on the board.<\/p>\n
“The way the pitch was, we felt that was quite a lot on there. It nipped around and they have played well and got a decent score.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n