- Test no. 1423 | 1998 season
- Played at Kennington Oval, London
- 27,28,29,30,31 August 1998 (5-day match)
| England 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| MA Butcher | c Jayasuriya b Wickramasinghe | 10 | 29 | 26 | 1 | 0 | 38.46 | |
| SP James | c & b Muralitharan | 36 | 133 | 111 | 3 | 0 | 32.43 | |
| GA Hick | c †Kaluwitharana b Wickramasinghe | 107 | 347 | 238 | 14 | 0 | 44.95 | |
| AJ Stewart*† | c Tillakaratne b Perera | 2 | 6 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 22.22 | |
| MR Ramprakash | c Jayawardene b Muralitharan | 53 | 175 | 149 | 4 | 0 | 35.57 | |
| JP Crawley | not out | 156 | 318 | 249 | 19 | 1 | 62.65 | |
| BC Hollioake | c Atapattu b Muralitharan | 14 | 88 | 53 | 1 | 0 | 26.41 | |
| DG Cork | b Muralitharan | 6 | 74 | 48 | 0 | 0 | 12.50 | |
| IDK Salisbury | b Muralitharan | 2 | 16 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 11.76 | |
| D Gough | c †Kaluwitharana b Muralitharan | 4 | 15 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 50.00 | |
| ARC Fraser | b Muralitharan | 32 | 59 | 52 | 3 | 2 | 61.53 | |
| Extras | (b 1, lb 11, w 2, nb 9) | 23 | ||||||
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| Total | (all out; 158.3 overs) | 445 | (2.80 runs per over) | |||||
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| GP Wickramasinghe | 30 | 4 | 81 | 2 | 2.70 | (1nb, 2w) | ||
| ASA Perera | 40 | 10 | 104 | 1 | 2.60 | |||
| HDPK Dharmasena | 18 | 3 | 55 | 0 | 3.05 | |||
| M Muralitharan | 59.3 | 14 | 155 | 7 | 2.60 | (8nb) | ||
| ST Jayasuriya | 11 | 0 | 38 | 0 | 3.45 |
| Sri Lanka 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| ST Jayasuriya | c †Stewart b Hollioake | 213 | 346 | 278 | 33 | 1 | 76.61 | |
| MS Atapattu | lbw b Cork | 15 | 55 | 26 | 1 | 0 | 57.69 | |
| DPMD Jayawardene | c Hollioake b Fraser | 9 | 56 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 22.50 | |
| PA de Silva | c †Stewart b Hollioake | 152 | 461 | 292 | 17 | 0 | 52.05 | |
| A Ranatunga* | lbw b Gough | 51 | 138 | 99 | 7 | 1 | 51.51 | |
| HP Tillakaratne | lbw b Gough | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| RS Kaluwitharana† | c Crawley b Cork | 25 | 57 | 50 | 2 | 0 | 50.00 | |
| HDPK Dharmasena | lbw b Fraser | 13 | 61 | 39 | 2 | 0 | 33.33 | |
| ASA Perera | not out | 43 | 104 | 77 | 6 | 1 | 55.84 | |
| GP Wickramasinghe | b Fraser | 0 | 11 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| M Muralitharan | c †Stewart b Salisbury | 30 | 55 | 36 | 5 | 0 | 83.33 | |
| Extras | (b 15, lb 20, w 1, nb 4) | 40 | ||||||
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| Total | (all out; 156.5 overs) | 591 | (3.76 runs per over) | |||||
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| D Gough | 30 | 5 | 102 | 2 | 3.40 | |||
| ARC Fraser | 23 | 3 | 95 | 3 | 4.13 | |||
| BC Hollioake | 26 | 2 | 105 | 2 | 4.03 | (1nb, 1w) | ||
| DG Cork | 36 | 5 | 128 | 2 | 3.55 | (3nb) | ||
| IDK Salisbury | 25.5 | 7 | 86 | 1 | 3.32 | |||
| MR Ramprakash | 5 | 0 | 24 | 0 | 4.80 | |||
| MA Butcher | 11 | 2 | 16 | 0 | 1.45 |
| England 2nd innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| MA Butcher | st †Kaluwitharana b Muralitharan | 15 | 53 | 45 | 3 | 0 | 33.33 | |
| SP James | c Jayawardene b Muralitharan | 25 | 185 | 150 | 1 | 0 | 16.66 | |
| GA Hick | lbw b Muralitharan | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| AJ Stewart*† | run out (sub [UDU Chandana]) | 32 | 149 | 145 | 1 | 0 | 22.06 | |
| MR Ramprakash | c Tillakaratne b Muralitharan | 42 | 246 | 220 | 3 | 0 | 19.09 | |
| JP Crawley | b Muralitharan | 14 | 53 | 59 | 2 | 0 | 23.72 | |
| BC Hollioake | lbw b Muralitharan | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| DG Cork | c †Kaluwitharana b Muralitharan | 8 | 22 | 23 | 2 | 0 | 34.78 | |
| IDK Salisbury | lbw b Muralitharan | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| D Gough | b Muralitharan | 15 | 145 | 133 | 2 | 0 | 11.27 | |
| ARC Fraser | not out | 0 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| Extras | (b 7, lb 8, w 1, nb 14) | 30 | ||||||
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| Total | (all out; 129.2 overs) | 181 | (1.39 runs per over) | |||||
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| GP Wickramasinghe | 4 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 4.00 | |||
| ASA Perera | 11 | 2 | 22 | 0 | 2.00 | (1w) | ||
| M Muralitharan | 54.2 | 27 | 65 | 9 | 1.19 | (12nb) | ||
| HDPK Dharmasena | 19.3 | 13 | 12 | 0 | 0.61 | |||
| ST Jayasuriya | 28 | 14 | 30 | 0 | 1.07 | |||
| PA de Silva | 10.3 | 3 | 16 | 0 | 1.52 | |||
| DPMD Jayawardene | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 2.50 |
| Sri Lanka 2nd innings (target: 36 runs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| ST Jayasuriya | not out | 24 | 22 | 17 | 2 | 2 | 141.17 | |
| MS Atapattu | not out | 9 | 22 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 69.23 | |
| Extras | (lb 4) | 4 | ||||||
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| Total | (0 wickets; 5 overs) | 37 | (7.40 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat DPMD Jayawardene, PA de Silva, A Ranatunga*, HP Tillakaratne, RS Kaluwitharana†, M Muralitharan, GP Wickramasinghe, ASA Perera, HDPK Dharmasena |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| ARC Fraser | 2 | 0 | 19 | 0 | 9.50 | |||
| DG Cork | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1.50 | |||
| BC Hollioake | 1 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 11.00 |
| Match details |
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Toss Sri Lanka, who chose to field Series Sri Lanka won the one-off match |
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Test debut
ASA Perera
(Sri Lanka) Player of the match M Muralitharan (Sri Lanka) |
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Umpires
EA Nicholls (West Indies) and DR Shepherd TV umpire JW Holder Match referee AM Ebrahim (Zimbabwe) |
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Close of play 27 Aug day 1 - England 1st innings 228/4 (GA Hick 107*, JP Crawley 10*, 91 ov) 28 Aug day 2 - Sri Lanka 1st innings 79/1 (ST Jayasuriya 59*, DPMD Jayawardene 4*, 20 ov) 29 Aug day 3 - Sri Lanka 1st innings 446/3 (PA de Silva 125*, A Ranatunga 50*, 110 ov) 30 Aug day 4 - England 2nd innings 54/2 (SP James 20*, AJ Stewart 15*, 42 ov) 31 Aug day 5 - Sri Lanka 2nd innings 37/0 (5 ov) - end of match |
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Aug 16, 1998 
Muttiah Muralitharan took 16 wickets to bowl Sri Lanka to a ten-wicket win © Getty Images |
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