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Sri Lanka vs England Scorecard, 1st Test, England vs Sri Lanka 2024
Result · Aug 21 2024, Wed - 03:30 PM (IST)
SRI LANKA236, 326
ENGLAND358, 205/5
England won by 5 wickets
CRR:3.58
Player Of The Match
Match Info
| Series: | Sri Lanka in England 2024 |
| Date: | Aug 21 2024, Wed - 03:30 PM (IST) |
| Country: | England |
| City: | Manchester |
| Venue: | Emirates Old Trafford |
| Toss: | Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat. |
| England Playing XI: | Dan Lawrence, Ben Duckett, Ollie Pope (c), Joe Root, Harry Brook, Jamie Smith (wk), Chris Woakes, Gus Atkinson, Matthew Potts, Mark Wood, Shoaib Bashir |
| Sri Lanka Playing XI: | Dimuth Karunaratne, Nishan Madushka, Kusal Mendis, Angelo Mathews, Dinesh Chandimal (wk), Dhananjaya de Silva (c), Kamindu Mendis, Prabath Jayasuriya, Asitha Fernando, Vishwa Fernando, Milan Rathnayake |
- England have won each of their last three men’s Test series against Sri Lanka, as many as they won across all their eight series prior in the format (W3 D2 L3); each of those last three series victories have seen them record a clean sweep (2-0 – January 2021, 3-0 – November 2018 and 2-0 – June 2016).
- England defeated West Indies 3-0 in their most recent men’s Test series at home (July 2024); they will be aiming for back-to-back wins in such series for the first time since August 2020.
- Sri Lanka defeated Bangladesh 2-0 in their most recent men’s Test series away from home (March 2024); they will be aiming for back-to-back series victories away from home in the format for the first time since June 2014.
- England have lost only one of their last 17 men’s Tests at Old Trafford in Manchester (W13 D3) – a 185-run loss against Australia in September 2019; they are undefeated in their five matches at the venue since then (W4 D1), bowling first on the day in each of their last three games in that span (W2 D1).
- Sri Lanka have a batting false shot rate of 19.8% in men’s Tests since the beginning of 2023, the best of any team; England (26%) are ranked last in this category.
- Sri Lanka (39.3) and England (34.7) have the best batting averages of any teams in men’s Tests since the beginning of 2023; although, England’s batting strike rate (74.6) is the best of any team while Sri Lanka (59.6) are ranked third in this category (Bangladesh – 63.8).
- Joe Root (32) is one away from equaling Alastair Cook (33) for the most hundreds for England in men’s Tests; he’s scored 60+ in four of his last five Test innings (84, 68, 14, 122, 87), including a century in that span (122 v West Indies in July 2024).
- Dimuth Karunaratne (6,899) is 101 away from becoming the fourth player to score 7,000 runs for Sri Lanka in men’s Tests (Kumar Sangakkara, Mahela Jayawardene, Angelo Mathews); he’s scored 50+ in four of his last five Test innings outside Asia (75, 50, 17, 89, 51).
- Harry Brook (England) has a batting dot ball rate of 57% from 999 balls faced in men’s Tests since the beginning of 2023, the best rate of any player in that time (min. 200 balls faced).
- Kamindu Mendis has scored 26.5% of Sri Lanka’s runs when he’s played in men’s Tests since the beginning of 2023, the best rate of any player for a team in the format (min. 3 innings); indeed, he’s scored 60+ in four of all his five Test innings (61, 102, 164, 92*, 9).
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