ICC World Cup - 1st match, Group A
England won by 8 wickets (with 19 balls remaining)
- ODI no. 1443 | 1999 season
- Played at Lord's, London
- 14 May 1999 (50-over match)
| Sri Lanka innings (50 overs maximum) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| ST Jayasuriya | c Hick b Mullally | 29 | 73 | 52 | 4 | 0 | 55.76 | |
| RS Mahanama | c Hick b Mullally | 16 | 47 | 30 | 2 | 0 | 53.33 | |
| MS Atapattu | c Thorpe b Austin | 3 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 33.33 | |
| HP Tillakaratne | c †Stewart b Ealham | 0 | 26 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| PA de Silva | c Thorpe b Mullally | 0 | 13 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| A Ranatunga* | c Hussain b Ealham | 32 | 71 | 42 | 1 | 1 | 76.19 | |
| RS Kaluwitharana† | c †Stewart b Mullally | 57 | 73 | 66 | 7 | 0 | 86.36 | |
| WPUJC Vaas | not out | 12 | 59 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 44.44 | |
| KEA Upashantha | c Thorpe b Hollioake | 11 | 25 | 25 | 1 | 0 | 44.00 | |
| GP Wickramasinghe | c †Stewart b Austin | 11 | 15 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 61.11 | |
| M Muralitharan | b Gough | 12 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 150.00 | |
| Extras | (lb 9, w 9, nb 3) | 21 | ||||||
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| Total | (all out; 48.4 overs) | 204 | (4.19 runs per over) | |||||
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| D Gough | 8.4 | 0 | 50 | 1 | 5.76 | (2nb, 1w) | ||
| ID Austin | 9 | 1 | 25 | 2 | 2.77 | (5w) | ||
| AD Mullally | 10 | 1 | 37 | 4 | 3.70 | (1nb, 1w) | ||
| MA Ealham | 10 | 0 | 31 | 2 | 3.10 | |||
| A Flintoff | 2 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 6.00 | |||
| GA Hick | 3 | 0 | 19 | 0 | 6.33 | (1w) | ||
| AJ Hollioake | 6 | 0 | 21 | 1 | 3.50 |
| England innings (target: 205 runs from 50 overs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| N Hussain | st †Kaluwitharana b Muralitharan | 14 | 69 | 33 | 1 | 0 | 42.42 | |
| AJ Stewart*† | c †Kaluwitharana b Vaas | 88 | 182 | 146 | 6 | 0 | 60.27 | |
| GA Hick | not out | 73 | 135 | 88 | 2 | 2 | 82.95 | |
| GP Thorpe | not out | 13 | 23 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 86.66 | |
| Extras | (lb 6, w 12, nb 1) | 19 | ||||||
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| Total | (2 wickets; 46.5 overs) | 207 | (4.41 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat NH Fairbrother, A Flintoff, AJ Hollioake, MA Ealham, ID Austin, D Gough, AD Mullally |
| Fall of wickets1-50 (Hussain, 14.5 ov), 2-175 (Stewart, 41.3 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| WPUJC Vaas | 10 | 2 | 27 | 1 | 2.70 | |||
| GP Wickramasinghe | 10 | 0 | 41 | 0 | 4.10 | |||
| KEA Upashantha | 8 | 0 | 38 | 0 | 4.75 | (1nb, 8w) | ||
| M Muralitharan | 10 | 0 | 33 | 1 | 3.30 | (2w) | ||
| ST Jayasuriya | 7.5 | 0 | 55 | 0 | 7.02 | (2w) | ||
| PA de Silva | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 7.00 |
| Match details |
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Toss England, who chose to field Points England 2, Sri Lanka 0 |
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Player of the match
AJ Stewart (England) |
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Umpires
RE Koertzen (South Africa) and S Venkataraghavan (India) TV umpire DL Orchard (South Africa) Match referee CW Smith (West Indies) |
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