- First-class match | 2006 season
- Played at County Ground, Hove
- 18,19,20,21 May 2006 (4-day match)
| Sri Lankans 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| J Mubarak | c Heather b Linley | 26 | 69 | 52 | 2 | 0 | 50.00 | |
| WU Tharanga | c Kirtley b Wright | 140 | 328 | 252 | 18 | 0 | 55.55 | |
| MG Vandort | lbw b Nash | 44 | 167 | 152 | 3 | 0 | 28.94 | |
| KC Sangakkara | c Wright b Spencer | 17 | 51 | 46 | 1 | 0 | 36.95 | |
| DPMD Jayawardene* | c †Hodd b Kirtley | 45 | 73 | 64 | 6 | 1 | 70.31 | |
| TT Samaraweera | not out | 100 | 265 | 203 | 7 | 0 | 49.26 | |
| CK Kapugedera | not out | 134 | 229 | 204 | 15 | 0 | 65.68 | |
| Extras | (b 4, lb 4, w 4, nb 3) | 15 | ||||||
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| Total | (5 wickets dec; 161.4 overs) | 521 | (3.22 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat HAPW Jayawardene†, KMDN Kulasekara, DNT Zoysa, SL Malinga |
| Fall of wickets1-73 (Mubarak), 2-186 (Vandort), 3-224 (Sangakkara), 4-268 (Tharanga), 5-283 (DPMD Jayawardene) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| RJ Kirtley | 31 | 5 | 103 | 1 | 3.32 | (2w) | ||
| DJ Spencer | 24 | 3 | 82 | 1 | 3.41 | (1nb, 1w) | ||
| LJ Wright | 25 | 7 | 68 | 1 | 2.72 | (1nb, 1w) | ||
| TE Linley | 27 | 7 | 56 | 1 | 2.07 | |||
| OP Rayner | 30 | 5 | 115 | 0 | 3.83 | |||
| CD Nash | 17 | 1 | 63 | 1 | 3.70 | |||
| CD Hopkinson | 4.4 | 1 | 17 | 0 | 3.64 | (1nb) | ||
| NRK Turk | 3 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 3.00 |
| Sussex 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| RR Montgomerie | c †HAPW Jayawardene b Malinga | 27 | 44 | 31 | 5 | 0 | 87.09 | |
| CD Hopkinson | c Mubarak b Zoysa | 32 | 143 | 100 | 2 | 0 | 32.00 | |
| CD Nash | lbw b Kulasekara | 11 | 58 | 31 | 1 | 0 | 35.48 | |
| NRK Turk | c Vandort b Kulasekara | 24 | 115 | 67 | 2 | 0 | 35.82 | |
| SA Heather | lbw b Malinga | 0 | 23 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| AJ Hodd† | b Malinga | 0 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| LJ Wright | b Malinga | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| OP Rayner | lbw b Kulasekara | 101 | 193 | 134 | 12 | 1 | 75.37 | |
| DJ Spencer | c †HAPW Jayawardene b Zoysa | 17 | 48 | 36 | 3 | 0 | 47.22 | |
| RJ Kirtley* | not out | 28 | 106 | 91 | 2 | 0 | 30.76 | |
| TE Linley | b Malinga | 0 | 5 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| Extras | (b 4, lb 8, w 1, nb 9) | 22 | ||||||
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| Total | (all out; 85.5 overs) | 262 | (3.05 runs per over) | |||||
| Fall of wickets1-39 (Montgomerie), 2-66 (Nash), 3-82 (Hopkinson), 4-88 (Heather), 5-97 (Hodd), 6-98 (Wright), 7-143 (Turk), 8-190 (Spencer), 9-261 (Rayner), 10-262 (Linley) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| DNT Zoysa | 20 | 8 | 44 | 2 | 2.20 | (1nb) | ||
| SL Malinga | 21.5 | 4 | 79 | 5 | 3.61 | (4nb) | ||
| KMDN Kulasekara | 19 | 7 | 35 | 3 | 1.84 | |||
| CK Kapugedera | 8 | 2 | 24 | 0 | 3.00 | (1nb) | ||
| J Mubarak | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 8.00 | |||
| TT Samaraweera | 7 | 0 | 31 | 0 | 4.42 | (3nb) | ||
| KC Sangakkara | 5 | 1 | 20 | 0 | 4.00 | (1w) | ||
| DPMD Jayawardene | 4 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 2.25 |
| Sri Lankans 2nd innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| MG Vandort | lbw b Kirtley | 1 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 16.66 | |
| J Mubarak | not out | 0 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| KC Sangakkara | not out | 2 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 50.00 | |
| Extras | (w 2) | 2 | ||||||
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| Total | (1 wicket; 2 overs) | 5 | (2.50 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat WU Tharanga, DPMD Jayawardene*, TT Samaraweera, CK Kapugedera, HAPW Jayawardene†, KMDN Kulasekara, DNT Zoysa, SL Malinga |
| Fall of wickets1-3 (Vandort) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| DJ Spencer | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3.00 | (2w) | ||
| RJ Kirtley | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2.00 |
| Match details |
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Toss Sri Lankans, who chose to bat |
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First-class debuts
OP Rayner and
NRK Turk
(Sussex) |
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Umpires
MR Benson and P Willey |
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Close of play 18 May day 1 - Sri Lankans 1st innings 283/4 (DPMD Jayawardene 45*, TT Samaraweera 3*, 97 ov) 19 May day 2 - Sussex 1st innings 40/1 (CD Hopkinson 10*, CD Nash 0*, 11 ov) 20 May day 3 - Sri Lankans 2nd innings 5/1 (J Mubarak 0*, KC Sangakkara 2*, 2 ov) 21 May day 4 - no play |
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May 20, 2006 
Oliver Rayner works the ball through the legside © Getty Images |
May 20, 2006 
Oliver Rayner celebrates his century on debut against the Sri Lankans © Getty Images |
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