England in Sri Lanka Test Series - 1st Test
Sri Lanka won by an innings and 28 runs
| Sri Lanka 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| MS Atapattu | not out | 201 | 684 | 536 | 18 | 0 | 37.50 | |
| ST Jayasuriya* | c White b Gough | 14 | 19 | 16 | 3 | 0 | 87.50 | |
| KC Sangakkara† | c White b Croft | 58 | 160 | 125 | 5 | 0 | 46.40 | |
| PA de Silva | run out (Gough) | 106 | 336 | 243 | 10 | 1 | 43.62 | |
| DPMD Jayawardene | run out (Thorpe) | 61 | 141 | 94 | 4 | 2 | 64.89 | |
| WPUJC Vaas | c White b Giles | 8 | 20 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 57.14 | |
| RP Arnold | not out | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 50.00 | |
| Extras | (b 9, lb 2, nb 10) | 21 | ||||||
| Total | (5 wickets dec; 170 overs; 684 mins) | 470 | (2.76 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat TM Dilshan, CRD Fernando, M Muralitharan, HDPK Dharmasena |
| Fall of wickets1-18 (Jayasuriya, 4.6 ov), 2-110 (Sangakkara, 43.4 ov), 3-340 (de Silva, 129.1 ov), 4-451 (Jayawardene, 164.5 ov), 5-468 (Vaas, 169.1 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| D Gough | 26 | 3 | 95 | 1 | 3.65 | (5nb) | ||
| AR Caddick | 30 | 13 | 46 | 0 | 1.53 | (2nb) | ||
| C White | 30 | 6 | 80 | 0 | 2.66 | (2nb) | ||
| AF Giles | 48 | 8 | 134 | 1 | 2.79 | (1nb) | ||
| RDB Croft | 32 | 6 | 96 | 1 | 3.00 | |||
| GA Hick | 4 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 2.00 |
| England 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| MA Atherton | lbw b Vaas | 33 | 153 | 128 | 2 | 0 | 25.78 | |
| ME Trescothick | c †Sangakkara b Vaas | 122 | 394 | 348 | 12 | 0 | 35.05 | |
| N Hussain* | lbw b Muralitharan | 3 | 26 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 15.78 | |
| GP Thorpe | c Dilshan b Muralitharan | 7 | 44 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 18.91 | |
| AJ Stewart† | lbw b Jayasuriya | 19 | 140 | 111 | 0 | 0 | 17.11 | |
| RDB Croft | c Jayawardene b Jayasuriya | 9 | 94 | 75 | 1 | 0 | 12.00 | |
| GA Hick | c †Sangakkara b Vaas | 5 | 29 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 22.72 | |
| C White | c †Sangakkara b Jayasuriya | 25 | 58 | 47 | 2 | 0 | 53.19 | |
| AF Giles | c Dilshan b Muralitharan | 4 | 28 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 15.38 | |
| AR Caddick | c Jayawardene b Jayasuriya | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| D Gough | not out | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| Extras | (b 2, lb 3, nb 21) | 26 | ||||||
| Total | (all out; 132.3 overs; 490 mins) | 253 | (1.90 runs per over) | |||||
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| WPUJC Vaas | 24 | 7 | 53 | 3 | 2.20 | (2nb) | ||
| M Muralitharan | 54.3 | 14 | 79 | 3 | 1.44 | (11nb) | ||
| HDPK Dharmasena | 22 | 6 | 51 | 0 | 2.31 | (6nb) | ||
| CRD Fernando | 2 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 5.00 | (2nb) | ||
| ST Jayasuriya | 27 | 7 | 50 | 4 | 1.85 | |||
| PA de Silva | 3 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 1.66 |
| England 2nd innings (following on) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| MA Atherton | c †Sangakkara b Vaas | 44 | 255 | 203 | 1 | 0 | 21.67 | |
| ME Trescothick | c †Sangakkara b Jayasuriya | 57 | 197 | 169 | 6 | 0 | 33.72 | |
| N Hussain* | lbw b Muralitharan | 1 | 17 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 5.00 | |
| GP Thorpe | lbw b Dharmasena | 12 | 109 | 86 | 0 | 0 | 13.95 | |
| AJ Stewart† | not out | 34 | 154 | 120 | 4 | 0 | 28.33 | |
| GA Hick | c Jayawardene b Jayasuriya | 6 | 33 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 17.14 | |
| C White | lbw b Muralitharan | 3 | 20 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 18.75 | |
| AR Caddick | b Jayasuriya | 1 | 11 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 14.28 | |
| AF Giles | lbw b Muralitharan | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 50.00 | |
| RDB Croft | lbw b Jayasuriya | 2 | 11 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 14.28 | |
| D Gough | b Muralitharan | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| Extras | (b 11, lb 6, nb 11) | 28 | ||||||
| Total | (all out; 110.3 overs; 410 mins) | 189 | (1.71 runs per over) | |||||
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| WPUJC Vaas | 15 | 6 | 29 | 1 | 1.93 | (1nb) | ||
| CRD Fernando | 4 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 2.50 | |||
| ST Jayasuriya | 32 | 13 | 44 | 4 | 1.37 | |||
| HDPK Dharmasena | 16 | 6 | 21 | 1 | 1.31 | |||
| M Muralitharan | 42.3 | 14 | 66 | 4 | 1.55 | (9nb) | ||
| RP Arnold | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2.00 |
| Match details |
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Toss Sri Lanka, who chose to bat Series Sri Lanka led the 3-match series 1-0 |
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Player of the match
MS Atapattu (Sri Lanka) |
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Umpires
AV Jayaprakash (India) and PT Manuel TV umpire EAR de Silva Match referee Hanumant Singh (India) |
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Close of play 22 Feb day 1 - Sri Lanka 1st innings 221/2 (MS Atapattu 85*, PA de Silva 56*, 90 ov) 23 Feb day 2 - England 1st innings 27/0 (MA Atherton 12*, ME Trescothick 11*, 8 ov) 24 Feb day 3 - England 1st innings 202/4 (ME Trescothick 119*, RDB Croft 0*, 106 ov) 25 Feb day 4 - England 2nd innings 118/2 (MA Atherton 44*, GP Thorpe 2*, 69 ov) 26 Feb day 5 - England 2nd innings 189 (110.3 ov) - end of match |
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Feb 26, 2001 England keeper Stewart trudges off the pitch not out on 34 at the end of the match © Cricinfo Ltd |
Feb 26, 2001 England keeper Stewart at the post match presentations © Cricinfo Ltd |
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