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England
v Sri Lanka⁠

Result

England won by 44 runs

England
293/6
Sri Lanka
249/9
Date
Thursday 27 June 2002 · England in 2002
Venue
Nottingham
Competition
ODI · International series

Last checked 21 October 2026

Scorecard

England v Sri Lanka ODI scorecard

England won the toss and chose to bat

England · Innings 293/6 (50 overs)

England · Innings: batting
BatterHow outRB4s6sSR
Marcus Trescothick c KC Sangakkara b WPUJC Vaas 26 25 4 0 104.0
Nick Knight lbw b DNT Zoysa 20 18 3 0 111.1
Nasser Hussain b CRD Fernando 32 41 3 0 78.0
Graham Thorpe b CRD Fernando 18 31 1 0 58.1
Alec Stewart b WPUJC Vaas 83 103 8 0 80.6
Ronnie Irani c DPMD Jayawardene b RP Arnold 39 55 1 0 70.9
Andrew Flintoff not out 50* 28 5 2 178.6
Paul Collingwood not out 10* 3 2 0 333.3
Extras (b 4, lb 4, w 3, nb 4) 15
Total 50 overs 293/6

Did not bat: AF Giles, RJ Kirtley, MJ Hoggard

Fall of wickets: 1-39 (NV Knight, 5.5 ov), 2-47 (ME Trescothick, 8.1 ov), 3-103 (N Hussain, 18.3 ov), 4-104 (GP Thorpe, 18.6 ov), 5-199 (RC Irani, 39.1 ov), 6-283 (AJ Stewart, 49.3 ov)

England · Innings: bowling
BowlerOMRWEconWDNB
WPUJC Vaas 9 0 58 2 6.44 0 0
DNT Zoysa 7 0 46 1 6.57 0 3
CRD Fernando 8 0 46 2 5.75 1 1
UDU Chandana 10 0 43 0 4.30 1 0
ST Jayasuriya 10 0 51 0 5.10 1 0
RP Arnold 6 0 41 1 6.83 0 0

Sri Lanka · Innings 249/9 (50 overs)

Sri Lanka · Innings: batting
BatterHow outRB4s6sSR
ST Jayasuriya c N Hussain b MJ Hoggard 12 17 2 0 70.6
RS Kaluwitharana c GP Thorpe b PD Collingwood 52 64 5 1 81.3
MS Atapattu c RC Irani b A Flintoff 47 58 7 0 81.0
DPMD Jayawardene b PD Collingwood 29 37 3 0 78.4
RP Arnold run out (MJ Hoggard) 29 46 2 0 63.0
KC Sangakkara c RJ Kirtley b A Flintoff 22 28 2 0 78.6
UDU Chandana c GP Thorpe b A Flintoff 1 4 0 0 25.0
MN Nawaz not out 15* 22 0 0 68.2
WPUJC Vaas b RJ Kirtley 10 14 1 0 71.4
DNT Zoysa b RJ Kirtley 0 1 0 0 0.0
CRD Fernando not out 5* 13 0 0 38.5
Extras (b 1, lb 10, w 10, nb 6) 27
Total 50 overs 249/9

Fall of wickets: 1-19 (ST Jayasuriya, 4.2 ov), 2-91 (MS Atapattu, 18.5 ov), 3-149 (RS Kaluwitharana, 27.6 ov), 4-152 (DPMD Jayawardene, 29.6 ov), 5-214 (RP Arnold, 40.6 ov), 6-215 (KC Sangakkara, 41.3 ov), 7-215 (UDU Chandana, 41.5 ov), 8-238 (WPUJC Vaas, 46.4 ov), 9-238 (DNT Zoysa, 46.5 ov)

Sri Lanka · Innings: bowling
BowlerOMRWEconWDNB
Matthew Hoggard 10 0 49 1 4.90 2 3
James Kirtley 10 0 40 2 4.00 2 1
Ronnie Irani 10 0 39 0 3.90 0 0
Andrew Flintoff 10 0 49 3 4.90 1 0
Ashley Giles 5 0 30 0 6.00 0 0
Paul Collingwood 5 0 31 2 6.20 1 0

Player of the match: Andrew Flintoff · Umpires: DL Orchard, DR Shepherd · TV umpire: NA Mallender · Match referee: MJ Procter. Scorecard from ball-by-ball data by Cricsheet (opens in a new tab), used under the Open Data Commons Attribution License (opens in a new tab). Names as Cricsheet writes them; England players link to their profiles.

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