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Sri Lanka
v England⁠

Result

England won by 18 runs

Sri Lanka
273/7
England
132/2
Date
Saturday 20 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 273/7 (50 overs)

Sri Lanka · Innings: batting
BatterHow outRB4s6sSR
N Dickwella lbw b MM Ali 52 70 5 0 74.3
S Samarawickrama c JC Buttler b CR Woakes 1 7 0 0 14.3
LD Chandimal b MM Ali 33 47 2 0 70.2
BKG Mendis lbw b AU Rashid 5 14 0 0 35.7
DM de Silva c JC Buttler b TK Curran 17 28 2 0 60.7
MD Shanaka run out 66 66 4 5 100.0
NLTC Perera run out 44 41 2 1 107.3
A Dananjaya not out 32* 26 2 1 123.1
SL Malinga not out 4* 1 1 0 400.0
Extras (b 0, lb 10, w 9, nb 0) 19
Total 50 overs 273/7

Did not bat: MA Aponso, CAK Rajitha

Fall of wickets: 1-19 (S Samarawickrama, 4.2 ov), 2-89 (LD Chandimal, 18.5 ov), 3-102 (N Dickwella, 22.5 ov), 4-102 (BKG Mendis, 23.1 ov), 5-154 (DM de Silva, 34.2 ov), 6-212 (MD Shanaka, 42.1 ov), 7-268 (NLTC Perera, 49.5 ov)

Sri Lanka · Innings: bowling
BowlerOMRWEconWDNB
Chris Woakes 10 0 45 1 4.50 1 0
OP Stone 7 0 50 0 7.14 4 0
Tom Curran 9 1 50 1 5.56 0 0
Moeen Ali 10 0 55 2 5.50 3 0
Adil Rashid 10 0 36 1 3.60 0 0
Ben Stokes 4 0 27 0 6.75 1 0

England · Innings 132/2 (27 overs)

England · Innings: batting
BatterHow outRB4s6sSR
Jason Roy lbw b A Dananjaya 45 49 5 1 91.8
Alex Hales st N Dickwella b A Dananjaya 12 23 2 0 52.2
Joe Root not out 32* 57 0 0 56.1
Eoin Morgan not out 31* 34 3 1 91.2
Extras (b 8, lb 0, w 3, nb 1) 12
Total 27 overs 132/2

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

Fall of wickets: 1-52 (AD Hales, 9.1 ov), 2-76 (JJ Roy, 15.4 ov)

England · Innings: bowling
BowlerOMRWEconWDNB
SL Malinga 5 0 15 0 3.00 1 0
MA Aponso 6 0 37 0 6.17 0 0
CAK Rajitha 5 0 27 0 5.40 1 0
A Dananjaya 7 0 27 2 3.86 1 0
DM de Silva 4 0 18 0 4.50 0 1

Player of the match: Eoin Morgan · Umpires: LE Hannibal, PR Reiffel · TV umpire: Aleem Dar · 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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