Wills World Cup - 1st quarter final
Sri Lanka won by 5 wickets (with 56 balls remaining)
- ODI no. 1077 | 1995/96 season
- Played at Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad (neutral venue)
- 9 March 1996 (50-over match)
| England innings (50 overs maximum) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| RA Smith | run out | 25 | 78 | 41 | 3 | 0 | 60.97 | |
| MA Atherton* | c †Kaluwitharana b Vaas | 22 | 32 | 27 | 2 | 0 | 81.48 | |
| GA Hick | c Ranatunga b Muralitharan | 8 | 27 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 38.09 | |
| GP Thorpe | b Dharmasena | 14 | 39 | 31 | 1 | 0 | 45.16 | |
| PAJ DeFreitas | lbw b Jayasuriya | 67 | 89 | 64 | 5 | 2 | 104.68 | |
| AJ Stewart | b Muralitharan | 17 | 50 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 44.73 | |
| RC Russell† | b Dharmasena | 9 | 18 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 52.94 | |
| DA Reeve | b Jayasuriya | 35 | 37 | 34 | 2 | 0 | 102.94 | |
| D Gough | not out | 26 | 34 | 26 | 5 | 0 | 100.00 | |
| PJ Martin | not out | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| Extras | (lb 8, w 4) | 12 | ||||||
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| Total | (8 wickets; 50 overs) | 235 | (4.70 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat RK Illingworth |
| Fall of wickets1-31 (Atherton), 2-58 (Hick), 3-66 (Smith), 4-94 (Thorpe), 5-145 (Stewart), 6-171 (Russell), 7-173 (DeFreitas), 8-235 (Reeve) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| GP Wickramasinghe | 7 | 0 | 43 | 0 | 6.14 | (1w) | ||
| WPUJC Vaas | 8 | 1 | 29 | 1 | 3.62 | (1w) | ||
| M Muralitharan | 10 | 1 | 37 | 2 | 3.70 | (1w) | ||
| HDPK Dharmasena | 10 | 0 | 30 | 2 | 3.00 | |||
| ST Jayasuriya | 9 | 0 | 46 | 2 | 5.11 | |||
| PA de Silva | 6 | 0 | 42 | 0 | 7.00 | (1w) |
| Sri Lanka innings (target: 236 runs from 50 overs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| ST Jayasuriya | st †Russell b Reeve | 82 | 67 | 44 | 13 | 3 | 186.36 | |
| RS Kaluwitharana† | b Illingworth | 8 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 266.66 | |
| AP Gurusinha | run out | 45 | 124 | 63 | 5 | 0 | 71.42 | |
| PA de Silva | c Smith b Hick | 31 | 38 | 30 | 5 | 0 | 103.33 | |
| A Ranatunga* | lbw b Gough | 25 | 14 | 17 | 5 | 0 | 147.05 | |
| HP Tillakaratne | not out | 19 | 65 | 50 | 1 | 0 | 38.00 | |
| RS Mahanama | not out | 22 | 55 | 38 | 2 | 0 | 57.89 | |
| Extras | (lb 1, w 2, nb 1) | 4 | ||||||
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| Total | (5 wickets; 40.4 overs) | 236 | (5.80 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat HDPK Dharmasena, WPUJC Vaas, M Muralitharan, GP Wickramasinghe |
| Fall of wickets1-12 (Kaluwitharana), 2-113 (Jayasuriya), 3-165 (de Silva), 4-194 (Ranatunga), 5-198 (Gurusinha) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| PJ Martin | 9 | 1 | 41 | 0 | 4.55 | (2w) | ||
| RK Illingworth | 10 | 1 | 72 | 1 | 7.20 | |||
| D Gough | 10 | 1 | 36 | 1 | 3.60 | |||
| PAJ DeFreitas | 3.4 | 0 | 38 | 0 | 10.36 | |||
| DA Reeve | 4 | 1 | 14 | 1 | 3.50 | (1nb) | ||
| GA Hick | 4 | 0 | 34 | 1 | 8.50 |
| Match details |
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Toss England, who chose to bat Series Sri Lanka advanced |
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Player of the match
ST Jayasuriya (Sri Lanka) |
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Umpires
Mahboob Shah and ID Robinson (Zimbabwe) TV umpire VK Ramaswamy (India) Match referee Nasim-ul-Ghani |
| Match notes |
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Mar 9, 1996 
Sanath Jayasuriya heads back to the pavilion after his blistering 82 from 44 balls © Getty Images |
Mar 1996 
Venkatesh Prasad celebrates after bowling Aamer Sohail © Getty Images |
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