- Test no. 1176 | 1991 season
- Played at Lord's, London
- 22,23,24,26,27 August 1991 (5-day match)
| England 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| GA Gooch* | c & b Ramanayake | 38 | 88 | 70 | 4 | 0 | 54.28 | |
| H Morris | lbw b Ratnayake | 42 | 162 | 97 | 7 | 0 | 43.29 | |
| AJ Stewart | not out | 113 | 308 | 240 | 14 | 0 | 47.08 | |
| RA Smith | c †Tillakaratne b Ratnayake | 4 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 50.00 | |
| MR Ramprakash | c Mahanama b Hathurusingha | 0 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| IT Botham | c Mahanama b Ramanayake | 22 | 43 | 33 | 4 | 0 | 66.66 | |
| CC Lewis | c de Silva b Anurasiri | 11 | 36 | 25 | 1 | 1 | 44.00 | |
| RC Russell† | b Anurasiri | 17 | 68 | 50 | 2 | 0 | 34.00 | |
| PAJ DeFreitas | b Ratnayake | 1 | 33 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 3.03 | |
| DV Lawrence | c & b Ratnayake | 3 | 25 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 15.78 | |
| PCR Tufnell | lbw b Ratnayake | 0 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| Extras | (b 9, lb 8, nb 14) | 31 | ||||||
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| Total | (all out; 95 overs) | 282 | (2.96 runs per over) | |||||
| Fall of wickets1-70 (Gooch), 2-114 (Morris), 3-119 (Smith), 4-120 (Ramprakash), 5-160 (Botham), 6-183 (Lewis), 7-246 (Russell), 8-258 (DeFreitas), 9-276 (Lawrence), 10-282 (Tufnell) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| RJ Ratnayake | 27 | 4 | 69 | 5 | 2.55 | |||
| CPH Ramanayake | 24 | 5 | 75 | 2 | 3.12 | |||
| KIW Wijegunawardene | 10 | 1 | 36 | 0 | 3.60 | |||
| UC Hathurusingha | 17 | 6 | 40 | 1 | 2.35 | |||
| SD Anurasiri | 17 | 4 | 45 | 2 | 2.64 |
| Sri Lanka 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| DSBP Kuruppu | b DeFreitas | 5 | 13 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 45.45 | |
| UC Hathurusingha | c Tufnell b DeFreitas | 66 | 284 | 201 | 7 | 0 | 32.83 | |
| AP Gurusinha | lbw b DeFreitas | 4 | 15 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 50.00 | |
| PA de Silva* | c Lewis b DeFreitas | 42 | 37 | 32 | 7 | 0 | 131.25 | |
| RS Mahanama | c †Russell b Botham | 2 | 12 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 18.18 | |
| ST Jayasuriya | c Smith b DeFreitas | 11 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 157.14 | |
| HP Tillakaratne† | c Morris b Lawrence | 20 | 75 | 52 | 3 | 0 | 38.46 | |
| RJ Ratnayake | b DeFreitas | 52 | 72 | 55 | 7 | 0 | 94.54 | |
| CPH Ramanayake | lbw b DeFreitas | 0 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| KIW Wijegunawardene | not out | 6 | 39 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 22.22 | |
| SD Anurasiri | b Lawrence | 1 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 25.00 | |
| Extras | (lb 15) | 15 | ||||||
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| Total | (all out; 68.1 overs) | 224 | (3.28 runs per over) | |||||
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| PAJ DeFreitas | 26 | 8 | 70 | 7 | 2.69 | |||
| DV Lawrence | 15.1 | 3 | 61 | 2 | 4.02 | |||
| CC Lewis | 10 | 5 | 29 | 0 | 2.90 | |||
| IT Botham | 10 | 3 | 26 | 1 | 2.60 | |||
| PCR Tufnell | 7 | 2 | 23 | 0 | 3.28 |
| England 2nd innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| GA Gooch* | b Anurasiri | 174 | 329 | 252 | 19 | 0 | 69.04 | |
| H Morris | c Mahanama b Anurasiri | 23 | 105 | 71 | 1 | 0 | 32.39 | |
| AJ Stewart | c de Silva b Anurasiri | 43 | 138 | 100 | 4 | 0 | 43.00 | |
| RA Smith | not out | 63 | 111 | 90 | 5 | 0 | 70.00 | |
| RC Russell† | not out | 12 | 26 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 109.09 | |
| Extras | (b 15, lb 23, w 1, nb 10) | 49 | ||||||
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| Total | (3 wickets dec; 85.1 overs) | 364 | (4.27 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat MR Ramprakash, IT Botham, CC Lewis, PAJ DeFreitas, DV Lawrence, PCR Tufnell |
| Fall of wickets1-78 (Morris), 2-217 (Stewart), 3-322 (Gooch) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| CPH Ramanayake | 20 | 2 | 86 | 0 | 4.30 | |||
| RJ Ratnayake | 26 | 4 | 91 | 0 | 3.50 | |||
| KIW Wijegunawardene | 2 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 6.50 | |||
| ST Jayasuriya | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1.00 | |||
| SD Anurasiri | 36.1 | 8 | 135 | 3 | 3.73 |
| Sri Lanka 2nd innings (target: 423 runs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| DSBP Kuruppu | lbw b Lewis | 21 | 104 | 76 | 3 | 0 | 27.63 | |
| UC Hathurusingha | c Morris b Tufnell | 25 | 111 | 77 | 2 | 0 | 32.46 | |
| AP Gurusinha | b Tufnell | 34 | 101 | 74 | 6 | 0 | 45.94 | |
| PA de Silva* | c †Russell b Lawrence | 18 | 115 | 91 | 1 | 0 | 19.78 | |
| RS Mahanama | c Botham b Tufnell | 15 | 67 | 49 | 1 | 0 | 30.61 | |
| ST Jayasuriya | c †Russell b Lewis | 66 | 114 | 70 | 8 | 0 | 94.28 | |
| HP Tillakaratne† | b Tufnell | 16 | 63 | 60 | 0 | 0 | 26.66 | |
| RJ Ratnayake | c sub b Lawrence | 17 | 34 | 34 | 3 | 0 | 50.00 | |
| CPH Ramanayake | not out | 34 | 89 | 57 | 3 | 0 | 59.64 | |
| KIW Wijegunawardene | c Botham b DeFreitas | 4 | 13 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 50.00 | |
| SD Anurasiri | lbw b Tufnell | 16 | 41 | 29 | 2 | 0 | 55.17 | |
| Extras | (b 1, lb 16, nb 2) | 19 | ||||||
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| Total | (all out; 103.3 overs) | 285 | (2.75 runs per over) | |||||
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| PAJ DeFreitas | 22 | 8 | 45 | 1 | 2.04 | |||
| DV Lawrence | 23 | 7 | 83 | 2 | 3.60 | |||
| CC Lewis | 18 | 4 | 31 | 2 | 1.72 | |||
| IT Botham | 6 | 2 | 15 | 0 | 2.50 | |||
| PCR Tufnell | 34.3 | 14 | 94 | 5 | 2.72 |
| Match details |
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Toss England, who chose to bat Series England won the one-off match |
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Test debut
KIW Wijegunawardene
(Sri Lanka) Players of the match RJ Ratnayake (Sri Lanka) and AJ Stewart (England) |
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Umpires
HD Bird and JH Hampshire |
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Close of play 22 Aug day 1 - England 1st innings 229/6 (AJ Stewart 76*, RC Russell 11*) 23 Aug day 2 - Sri Lanka 1st innings 75/2 (UC Hathurusingha 19*, PA de Silva 42*) 24 Aug day 3 - England 2nd innings 100/1 (GA Gooch 60*, AJ Stewart 7*) 25 Aug rest day 26 Aug day 4 - Sri Lanka 2nd innings 79/2 (AP Gurusinha 16*, PA de Silva 7*) 27 Aug day 5 - Sri Lanka 2nd innings 285 (103.3 ov) - end of match |
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