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England men · T20I · International series

Sri Lanka
v England⁠

Result

England won by 30 runs

Sri Lanka
157
England
187/8
Date
Saturday 27 October 2018 · England in 2018
Venue
R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo
Competition
T20I · International series

Last checked 21 October 2026

Scorecard

Sri Lanka v England T20I scorecard

Sri Lanka won the toss and chose to field

England · Innings 187/8 (20 overs)

England · Innings: batting
BatterHow outRB4s6sSR
Jason Roy c N Dickwella b PADLR Sandakan 69 36 4 6 191.7
Jos Buttler c LD Chandimal b MA Aponso 13 7 3 0 185.7
Alex Hales lbw b MA Aponso 4 3 1 0 133.3
Eoin Morgan run out 11 10 2 0 110.0
Ben Stokes b SL Malinga 26 27 1 1 96.3
Moeen Ali b DM de Silva 27 11 1 3 245.5
Joe Denly c BKG Mendis b SL Malinga 20 17 3 0 117.6
Adil Rashid b I Udana 5 3 1 0 166.7
Liam Plunkett not out 7* 5 1 0 140.0
Chris Jordan not out 2* 1 0 0 200.0
Extras (b 0, lb 1, w 2, nb 0) 3
Total 20 overs 187/8

Did not bat: TK Curran

Fall of wickets: 1-41 (JC Buttler, 3.2 ov), 2-45 (AD Hales, 3.5 ov), 3-60 (EJG Morgan, 6.2 ov), 4-107 (JJ Roy, 10.6 ov), 5-145 (MM Ali, 14.2 ov), 6-173 (JL Denly, 18.2 ov), 7-173 (BA Stokes, 18.3 ov), 8-185 (AU Rashid, 19.5 ov)

England · Innings: bowling
BowlerOMRWEconWDNB
SL Malinga 4 0 30 2 7.50 1 0
MA Aponso 3 0 29 2 9.67 0 0
I Udana 3 0 24 1 8.00 0 0
PADLR Sandakan 4 0 39 1 9.75 1 0
PHKD Mendis 3 0 27 0 9.00 0 0
NLTC Perera 1 0 15 0 15.00 0 0
DM de Silva 2 0 22 1 11.00 0 0

Sri Lanka · Innings 157 all out (20 overs)

Sri Lanka · Innings: batting
BatterHow outRB4s6sSR
N Dickwella b JL Denly 3 7 0 0 42.9
BKG Mendis b JL Denly 1 3 0 0 33.3
LD Chandimal c AD Hales b AU Rashid 26 20 4 0 130.0
DM de Silva lbw b AU Rashid 17 19 2 0 89.5
PHKD Mendis c AD Hales b AU Rashid 24 14 3 1 171.4
NLTC Perera c JJ Roy b JL Denly 57 31 1 6 183.9
MD Shanaka b LE Plunkett 10 13 0 1 76.9
I Udana c BA Stokes b CJ Jordan 2 3 0 0 66.7
MA Aponso b CJ Jordan 0 2 0 0 0.0
SL Malinga b JL Denly 5 7 0 0 71.4
PADLR Sandakan not out 1* 1 0 0 100.0
Extras (b 5, lb 5, w 1, nb 0) 11
Total 20 overs 157

Fall of wickets: 1-7 (BKG Mendis, 0.6 ov), 2-16 (N Dickwella, 2.5 ov), 3-49 (LD Chandimal, 6.5 ov), 4-77 (PHKD Mendis, 10.1 ov), 5-77 (DM de Silva, 10.3 ov), 6-110 (MD Shanaka, 14.5 ov), 7-119 (I Udana, 15.4 ov), 8-119 (MA Aponso, 15.6 ov), 9-156 (NLTC Perera, 19.4 ov), 10-157 (SL Malinga, 19.6 ov)

Sri Lanka · Innings: bowling
BowlerOMRWEconWDNB
Joe Denly 4 0 19 4 4.75 0 0
Tom Curran 4 0 40 0 10.00 0 0
Chris Jordan 4 0 29 2 7.25 0 0
Adil Rashid 4 0 11 3 2.75 0 0
Liam Plunkett 2 0 24 1 12.00 1 0
Moeen Ali 2 0 24 0 12.00 0 0

Player of the match: Joe Denly · Umpires: REJ Martinesz, RR Wimalasiri · TV umpire: RSA Palliyaguruge · 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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