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Sri Lanka
v England⁠

Result

England won by 7 wickets

Sri Lanka
150/9
England
153/3
Date
Wednesday 17 October 2018 · England in 2018
Venue
Pallekele
Competition
ODI · International series

Last checked 21 October 2026

Scorecard

Sri Lanka v England ODI scorecard

England won the toss and chose to field

Sri Lanka · Innings 150/9 (21 overs)

Sri Lanka · Innings: batting
BatterHow outRB4s6sSR
N Dickwella c CR Woakes b TK Curran 36 20 8 0 180.0
S Samarawickrama c CR Woakes b AU Rashid 35 34 4 0 102.9
BKG Mendis b AU Rashid 0 1 0 0 0.0
LD Chandimal c AU Rashid b TK Curran 34 42 2 0 81.0
NLTC Perera c JJ Roy b AU Rashid 0 1 0 0 0.0
DM de Silva c JJ Roy b TK Curran 3 10 0 0 30.0
MD Shanaka b AU Rashid 21 10 1 2 210.0
A Dananjaya run out 7 4 1 0 175.0
SL Malinga not out 2* 2 0 0 100.0
MA Aponso run out 0 2 0 0 0.0
Extras (b 2, lb 7, w 3, nb 0) 12
Total 21 overs 150/9

Did not bat: N Pradeep

Fall of wickets: 1-57 (N Dickwella, 5.3 ov), 2-59 (BKG Mendis, 6.2 ov), 3-94 (S Samarawickrama, 12.2 ov), 4-94 (NLTC Perera, 12.3 ov), 5-110 (DM de Silva, 16.1 ov), 6-138 (MD Shanaka, 18.6 ov), 7-146 (A Dananjaya, 19.5 ov), 8-150 (LD Chandimal, 20.4 ov), 9-150 (MA Aponso, 20.6 ov)

Sri Lanka · Innings: bowling
BowlerOMRWEconWDNB
Chris Woakes 4 0 37 0 9.25 0 0
OP Stone 3 0 24 0 8.00 1 0
Tom Curran 4 0 17 3 4.25 0 0
Moeen Ali 1 0 6 0 6.00 0 0
Adil Rashid 5 0 36 4 7.20 0 0
Ben Stokes 4 0 21 0 5.25 2 0

England · Innings 153/3 (18.3 overs)

England · Innings: batting
BatterHow outRB4s6sSR
Jason Roy lbw b A Dananjaya 41 26 3 2 157.7
Jonny Bairstow c NLTC Perera b MA Aponso 4 2 1 0 200.0
Joe Root b MA Aponso 8 10 1 0 80.0
Eoin Morgan not out 58* 49 7 0 118.4
Ben Stokes not out 35* 24 1 2 145.8
Extras (b 0, lb 2, w 5, nb 0) 7
Total 18.3 overs 153/3

Did not bat: JC Buttler, MM Ali, CR Woakes, TK Curran, AU Rashid, OP Stone

Fall of wickets: 1-18 (JM Bairstow, 1.2 ov), 2-34 (JE Root, 3.5 ov), 3-80 (JJ Roy, 8.6 ov)

England · Innings: bowling
BowlerOMRWEconWDNB
SL Malinga 4 0 39 0 9.75 3 0
MA Aponso 3.3 0 27 2 7.71 0 0
A Dananjaya 4 0 33 1 8.25 2 0
DM de Silva 4 0 23 0 5.75 0 0
N Pradeep 2 0 21 0 10.50 0 0
NLTC Perera 1 0 8 0 8.00 0 0

Player of the match: Adil Rashid · Umpires: Aleem Dar, RR Wimalasiri · TV umpire: PR Reiffel · Match referee: RB Richardson. 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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