Emirates Triangular Tournament - final
Sri Lanka won by 5 wickets (with 17 balls remaining)
- ODI no. 1348 | 1998 season
- Played at Lord's, London
- 20 August 1998 (50-over match)
| England innings (50 overs maximum) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| NV Knight | c & b Muralitharan | 94 | 178 | 136 | 4 | 0 | 69.11 | |
| MA Atherton | c Ranatunga b Muralitharan | 64 | 102 | 73 | 7 | 0 | 87.67 | |
| AJ Stewart*† | c †Kaluwitharana b Muralitharan | 18 | 30 | 24 | 1 | 0 | 75.00 | |
| GA Hick | b Chandana | 14 | 23 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 87.50 | |
| AD Brown | b Muralitharan | 18 | 24 | 18 | 2 | 0 | 100.00 | |
| N Hussain | lbw b Muralitharan | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| RDB Croft | c †Kaluwitharana b Perera | 17 | 21 | 17 | 1 | 0 | 100.00 | |
| ID Austin | not out | 11 | 23 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 91.66 | |
| D Gough | b Perera | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| PJ Martin | not out | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 | |
| Extras | (b 4, lb 5, w 10) | 19 | ||||||
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| Total | (8 wickets; 50 overs) | 256 | (5.12 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat AD Mullally |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| GP Wickramasinghe | 5 | 0 | 29 | 0 | 5.80 | |||
| ASA Perera | 9 | 0 | 44 | 2 | 4.88 | (4w) | ||
| HDPK Dharmasena | 9 | 0 | 47 | 0 | 5.22 | (1w) | ||
| M Muralitharan | 10 | 0 | 34 | 5 | 3.40 | |||
| PA de Silva | 2 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 5.00 | |||
| ST Jayasuriya | 8 | 0 | 45 | 0 | 5.62 | |||
| UDU Chandana | 7 | 0 | 38 | 1 | 5.42 | (2w) |
| Sri Lanka innings (target: 257 runs from 50 overs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| ST Jayasuriya | b Gough | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| RS Kaluwitharana† | c Hick b Croft | 68 | 105 | 77 | 6 | 0 | 88.31 | |
| MS Atapattu | not out | 132 | 197 | 151 | 14 | 0 | 87.41 | |
| PA de Silva | c Brown b Gough | 34 | 58 | 37 | 4 | 0 | 91.89 | |
| A Ranatunga* | c Knight b Martin | 1 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 33.33 | |
| UDU Chandana | c Knight b Croft | 2 | 10 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 28.57 | |
| HP Tillakaratne | not out | 10 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 166.66 | |
| Extras | (lb 7, w 6) | 13 | ||||||
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| Total | (5 wickets; 47.1 overs) | 260 | (5.51 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat HDPK Dharmasena, GP Wickramasinghe, ASA Perera, M Muralitharan |
| Fall of wickets1-2 (Jayasuriya, 0.2 ov), 2-140 (Kaluwitharana, 26.3 ov), 3-210 (de Silva, 40.2 ov), 4-224 (Ranatunga, 43.1 ov), 5-233 (Chandana, 44.5 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| D Gough | 10 | 0 | 50 | 2 | 5.00 | (2w) | ||
| PJ Martin | 10 | 1 | 60 | 1 | 6.00 | (2w) | ||
| AD Mullally | 10 | 0 | 37 | 0 | 3.70 | (1w) | ||
| ID Austin | 10 | 1 | 48 | 0 | 4.80 | |||
| RDB Croft | 7 | 0 | 54 | 2 | 7.71 | (1w) | ||
| GA Hick | 0.1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 24.00 |
| Match details |
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Toss England, who chose to bat Series Sri Lanka won the 1998 Emirates Triangular Tournament |
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Player of the match
M Muralitharan (Sri Lanka) Player of the series MS Atapattu (Sri Lanka) |
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Umpires
DJ Constant and DR Shepherd TV umpire JC Balderstone Match referee AM Ebrahim (Zimbabwe) |
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Muttiah Muralitharan took 5 for 34 © Getty Images |
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