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England
v Sri Lanka⁠

Result · DLS method

England won by 49 runs (D/L method)

England
251/7 (50 ov)
Sri Lanka
95/5 (24 ov)
Date
Friday 17 September 2004 · England in 2004
Venue
Rose Bowl, Southampton

Last checked 24 October 2026

Scorecard

England v Sri Lanka ODI scorecard

Sri Lanka won the toss and chose to field

England · Innings 251/7 (50 overs)

England · Innings: batting
BatterHow outRB4s6sSR
Marcus Trescothick run out 66 98 7 0 67.3
Vikram Solanki c KC Sangakkara b MF Maharoof 18 26 4 0 69.2
Michael Vaughan b DNT Zoysa 5 11 1 0 45.5
Andrew Strauss run out 7 22 0 0 31.8
Andrew Flintoff b WPUJC Vaas 104 91 9 3 114.3
Paul Collingwood c DPMD Jayawardene b WPUJC Vaas 39 49 3 0 79.6
Geraint Jones not out 2* 2 0 0 100.0
Alex Wharf run out 0 1 0 0 0.0
Ashley Giles not out 0* 0 0 0 –
Extras (b 0, lb 2, w 8, nb 0) 10
Total 50 overs 251/7

Did not bat: D Gough, SJ Harmison

Fall of wickets: 1-29 (VS Solanki, 7.6 ov), 2-44 (MP Vaughan, 12.3 ov), 3-70 (AJ Strauss, 18.6 ov), 4-123 (ME Trescothick, 33.3 ov), 5-217 (PD Collingwood, 47.5 ov), 6-250 (A Flintoff, 49.4 ov), 7-250 (AG Wharf, 49.5 ov)

England · Innings: bowling
BowlerOMRWEconWDNB
WPUJC Vaas 10 1 51 2 5.10 1 0
DNT Zoysa 10 0 61 1 6.10 1 0
MF Maharoof 10 1 19 1 1.90 0 0
DPMD Jayawardene 3 0 16 0 5.33 1 0
UDU Chandana 9 0 64 0 7.11 1 0
ST Jayasuriya 4 0 23 0 5.75 0 0
TM Dilshan 4 0 15 0 3.75 0 0

Sri Lanka · Innings 95/5 (24 overs)

Sri Lanka · Innings: batting
BatterHow outRB4s6sSR
DA Gunawardene c GO Jones b SJ Harmison 5 16 1 0 31.3
ST Jayasuriya c D Gough b A Flintoff 27 32 3 0 84.4
MS Atapattu c GO Jones b SJ Harmison 1 7 0 0 14.3
WS Jayantha c GO Jones b A Flintoff 23 38 2 0 60.5
KC Sangakkara not out 17* 40 2 0 42.5
DPMD Jayawardene c & b AF Giles 7 15 0 0 46.7
TM Dilshan not out 2* 2 0 0 100.0
Extras (b 0, lb 5, w 2, nb 6) 13
Total 24 overs 95/5

Did not bat: UDU Chandana, WPUJC Vaas, MF Maharoof, DNT Zoysa

Fall of wickets: 1-11 (DA Gunawardene, 3.3 ov), 2-15 (MS Atapattu, 5.1 ov), 3-49 (ST Jayasuriya, 12.3 ov), 4-74 (WS Jayantha, 18.6 ov), 5-88 (DPMD Jayawardene, 22.5 ov)

Sri Lanka · Innings: bowling
BowlerOMRWEconWDNB
Darren Gough 6 1 19 0 3.17 0 0
Steve Harmison 6 1 21 2 3.50 1 0
Andrew Flintoff 5 0 21 2 4.20 0 2
Alex Wharf 5 1 20 0 4.00 1 4
Ashley Giles 1 0 2 1 2.00 0 0
Paul Collingwood 1 0 7 0 7.00 0 0

Player of the match: Andrew Flintoff · Umpires: BF Bowden, DB Hair · TV umpire: BR Doctrove · 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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