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England
v Sri Lanka⁠

Result

Sri Lanka won by 8 wickets

England
321/7
Sri Lanka
324/2
Date
Saturday 1 July 2006 · England in 2006
Venue
Leeds
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 321/7 (50 overs)

England · Innings: batting
BatterHow outRB4s6sSR
Marcus Trescothick b ST Jayasuriya 121 118 16 1 102.5
Alastair Cook c DPMD Jayawardene b MF Maharoof 41 54 4 0 75.9
Ian Bell c KC Sangakkara b CRD Fernando 18 27 1 0 66.7
Andrew Strauss c KC Sangakkara b SL Malinga 26 32 1 0 81.3
Vikram Solanki not out 44* 34 3 1 129.4
Jamie Dalrymple lbw b SL Malinga 30 27 4 0 111.1
Geraint Jones lbw b SL Malinga 2 5 0 0 40.0
Tim Bresnan b SL Malinga 4 3 1 0 133.3
Liam Plunkett not out 9* 6 0 0 150.0
Extras (b 0, lb 9, w 11, nb 6) 26
Total 50 overs 321/7

Did not bat: Kabir Ali, SJ Harmison

Fall of wickets: 1-82 (AN Cook, 16.6 ov), 2-157 (IR Bell, 27.2 ov), 3-225 (AJ Strauss, 37.2 ov), 4-233 (ME Trescothick, 38.4 ov), 5-295 (JWM Dalrymple, 46.3 ov), 6-304 (GO Jones, 48.1 ov), 7-308 (TT Bresnan, 48.4 ov)

England · Innings: bowling
BowlerOMRWEconWDNB
WPUJC Vaas 8 2 41 0 5.13 0 2
SL Malinga 10 0 44 4 4.40 2 1
CRD Fernando 8 0 61 1 7.63 0 3
MF Maharoof 9 0 52 1 5.78 1 0
TM Dilshan 3 0 29 0 9.67 1 0
HMCM Bandara 7 0 50 0 7.14 1 0
ST Jayasuriya 5 0 35 1 7.00 0 0

Sri Lanka · Innings 324/2 (37.3 overs)

Sri Lanka · Innings: batting
BatterHow outRB4s6sSR
WU Tharanga c & b JWM Dalrymple 109 102 14 1 106.9
ST Jayasuriya c AJ Strauss b VS Solanki 152 99 20 4 153.5
DPMD Jayawardene not out 12* 14 1 0 85.7
KC Sangakkara not out 23* 19 4 0 121.1
Extras (b 0, lb 10, w 9, nb 9) 28
Total 37.3 overs 324/2

Did not bat: TM Dilshan, CK Kapugedera, MF Maharoof, WPUJC Vaas, HMCM Bandara, SL Malinga, CRD Fernando

Fall of wickets: 1-286 (WU Tharanga, 31.5 ov), 2-289 (ST Jayasuriya, 32.2 ov)

Sri Lanka · Innings: bowling
BowlerOMRWEconWDNB
Kabir Ali 6 0 72 0 12.00 0 5
Tim Bresnan 2 0 29 0 14.50 1 0
Liam Plunkett 5 0 46 0 9.20 2 0
Steve Harmison 10 0 97 0 9.70 5 3
Jamie Dalrymple 10 0 48 1 4.80 1 0
Ian Bell 1 0 5 0 5.00 0 1
Vikram Solanki 3.3 0 17 1 4.86 0 0

Player of the match: ST Jayasuriya · Umpires: MR Benson, BR Doctrove · TV umpire: IJ Gould · Match referee: CH Lloyd. 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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