Daily Sport News Roundup – Championship Play off and Test Cricket

Monday brought to an end to a fantastic long weekend of sporting events and it certainly didn’t disappoint with an unbelievable end to the England Sri Lanka First test and a dramatic game in the Championship playoff game made the Headline News.

Lets start with the test match in Cardiff where a weather delayed series looked likely to end to a boring draw. How wrong could we be despite the game beginning at 3pm in the afternoon England batted for two overs and declared as soon as Ian Bell reached his century and the figured they declared on was 496-5 which only put them 96 runs ahead. This brought the tourists out to bat and Chris Tremlett (4-40) took two early wickets before he and Graeme Swann (4-16) took control and dismantled the Sri Lankan batting order and Stuart Broad (2-21) finished the tourists off for 82 all out. An amazing result for the England team and a result only few people could have predicted and a big step towards there summer goal of being the Number 1 test team.

Cardiff wasn’t the only place where drama and excitement could be found the Championship Playoff final between Reading & Swansea City proved to a historic game. Many recent Playoff finals especially the Championship final have been tense and largely un entertaining games. This game however broke the mould with a fast passed, frantic and great final to watch. The first half belonged to Swansea City who scored 3 unanswered goals the first a Scott Sinclair Penalty after 21 minutes after Khizanishvili brought down Nathan Dyer. The Swansea fans didn’t have to long to wait before celebrating their second goal and a Second for Sinclair who slotted home a Stephen Dobie Cross. Stephen Dobbie then got himself on the scoresheet after a cross From the Swans Player of the season Nathan Dyer crossed for Dobbie to score from 16 yards. The Swans were flying high with a three goal lead at half time. After the restart Reading made the game close when Swansea played Joe Allen scored an own goal after Noel Hunts flick from a Reading corner. Swansea’s lead was cut to once when Reading Captain Gary Mills scored a header from a corner on 57 minutes. The game then became intense and Reading almost tied the game when they hit the post but were unable to close out the game and the Swansea win was confirmed when Sinclair scored his second penalty and completed his hat trick after a clumsy foul by Andy Griffin on Fabio Borini. The 4-2 win secured Swansea as the first Welsh team to play in the premier league and another season in the Championship for Reading.

Thanks for reading my wrap up of Mondays main sporting events and be sure to check back for more stories on sporting events at Real Sporting News.

 

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