MRF World Series (Nehru Cup) - 1st match
England won by 5 wickets (with 8 balls remaining)
| Sri Lanka innings (50 overs maximum) | R | B | 4s | 6s | SR | |||
| RS Mahanama | run out | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 50.00 | ||
| DSBP Kuruppu† | c †Russell b Fraser | 5 | 23 | 0 | 21.73 | |||
| AP Gurusinha | c Lamb b Capel | 19 | 46 | 41.30 | ||||
| PA de Silva | lbw b Hemmings | 80 | 89 | 10 | 0 | 89.88 | ||
| A Ranatunga* | b Gooch | 7 | 19 | 36.84 | ||||
| MAR Samarasekera | c Stewart b Gooch | 24 | 48 | 50.00 | ||||
| JR Ratnayeke | c Gooch b DeFreitas | 6 | 5 | 120.00 | ||||
| GF Labrooy | lbw b DeFreitas | 0 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | ||
| EAR de Silva | b DeFreitas | 2 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 18.18 | ||
| SD Anurasiri | not out | 5 | 16 | 0 | 31.25 | |||
| KIW Wijegunawardene | b Fraser | 3 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 30.00 | ||
| Extras | (b 6, lb 22, w 10, nb 3) | 41 | ||||||
| Total | (all out; 48.3 overs) | 193 | (3.97 runs per over) | |||||
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| PAJ DeFreitas | 10 | 3 | 38 | 3 | 3.80 | |||
| ARC Fraser | 8.3 | 1 | 25 | 2 | 2.94 | |||
| GC Small | 6 | 0 | 26 | 0 | 4.33 | |||
| DJ Capel | 4 | 0 | 16 | 1 | 4.00 | |||
| GA Gooch | 10 | 2 | 26 | 2 | 2.60 | |||
| EE Hemmings | 10 | 1 | 34 | 1 | 3.40 |
| England innings (target: 194 runs from 50 overs) | R | B | 4s | 6s | SR | |||
| GA Gooch* | c PA de Silva b Labrooy | 5 | 22 | 0 | 22.72 | |||
| W Larkins | c PA de Silva b Ranatunga | 19 | 44 | 43.18 | ||||
| RA Smith | not out | 81 | 119 | 7 | 0 | 68.06 | ||
| AJ Lamb | c PA de Silva b Wijegunawardene | 52 | 66 | 2 | 3 | 78.78 | ||
| AJ Stewart | c †Kuruppu b Ranatunga | 4 | 19 | 0 | 21.05 | |||
| DJ Capel | lbw b Wijegunawardene | 4 | 10 | 0 | 40.00 | |||
| RC Russell† | not out | 10 | 9 | 111.11 | ||||
| Extras | (b 1, lb 8, w 10, nb 2) | 21 | ||||||
| Total | (5 wickets; 48.4 overs) | 196 | (4.02 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat PAJ DeFreitas, GC Small, EE Hemmings, ARC Fraser |
| Fall of wickets1-18 (Gooch), 2-34 (Larkins), 3-137 (Lamb), 4-157 (Stewart), 5-170 (Capel) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| JR Ratnayeke | 7 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 1.42 | |||
| GF Labrooy | 7 | 1 | 34 | 1 | 4.85 | |||
| A Ranatunga | 10 | 0 | 39 | 2 | 3.90 | |||
| EAR de Silva | 10 | 0 | 29 | 0 | 2.90 | |||
| SD Anurasiri | 3 | 0 | 22 | 0 | 7.33 | |||
| PA de Silva | 3 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 5.33 | |||
| KIW Wijegunawardene | 8.4 | 1 | 37 | 2 | 4.26 |
| Match details |
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Toss England, who chose to field Points England 4, Sri Lanka 0 |
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ODI debuts
ARC Fraser and
AJ Stewart
(England) Player of the match RA Smith (England) |
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Umpires
RB Gupta and PJ McConnell (Australia) |
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