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Simon Mann

England one-day side finally looks the part

England’s third one-day series victory of the year was their most impressive.

When they won in Australia in February they were not quite sure how they managed it, and it was followed by a wretched showing in the World Cup. Victory against India was a positive step, but it was achieved in familiar conditions.

To triumph in Sri Lanka, albeit against a team without Muttiah Muralitharan, hints at a promising future for this emerging, inexperienced team.

After years of underachievement, England appear to be developing a one-day team that is capable of executing pre-game plans on a more consistent basis. Accurate, testing bowling and aggressive fielding set up their most comfortable victory of the series.

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Bill Frindall

Ask Bearders # 156

Welcome to Ask Bearders, where Test Match Special statistician Bill "The Bearded Wonder" Frindall answers your questions on all things cricket.

Below are Bill's responses to some of your questions posed at the end of his last column and if you have a question for Bill, leave it at the end of this blog entry. Please do include your country of residence - Bill loves to hear where all his correspondents are posting from.

Bill isn’t able to answer all of your questions, however. BBC Sport staff will choose a selection of them and send them to Bearders for him to answer.

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