Sri Lanka beat England in 2nd ODI of Bilateral Series played in 2001

England was scheduled to play a 3 one day international series in Sri Lanka against Sri Lanka in year, 2001. The 2nd match of the series was played on R.Premadasa Stadium, Colombo, Sri Lanka on 25th March, 2001.

Sri Lanka won the toss and opts to bat first in this 2nd One Day International match. This is how England team and 11 was looking like in this match: Marcus T, Andrew Flintoff, Darren Gough, Michael Vaughan, Ashley Giles, Alec Stewart (wk), Graeme Hick, Andy Caddick, Graham Thorpe (c), Craig White, Alan Mullally

And Sri Lanka team and 11 was looking like this in this 2nd One day international match: Marvan A, Mahela Jayawardene, Sanath Jayasuriya (c), Kumar Sangakkara, Chaminda Vaas, Nuwan Zoysa, Muttiah Muralitharan, Russel Arnold, Indika de Saram, Romesh Kaluwitharana (wk), Kumar Dharmasena.

Sri Lanka started poorly and was 2 wickets down for only 33 runs in 10.3 over’s in the form of Sanath J and Ramesh k but after that they batted well and were able to set target of 226 runs in 50 over’s at the loss of 6 wickets and was top scored by M Jaya ho made 101 runs in 115 balls with 7 4’s and strike rate of 88 runs in 100 balls and M Atapattu made 57 runs in 91 balls with 2 4’s and strike rate of 63 runs in 100 balls.

England was required to make 227 runs in 50 over’s to win this game and stay alive in this 3 amtch ODI series with one more game to play.

England started well but they lost their way in the middle over’s and kept losing wickets at regular intervals in the game and were finally bowled out for only 160 runs in 45 over’s and top scored by Wicket keeper Batsman A Stewart who made 55 runs in 102 balls with 2 4’s and strike rate of 54 runs in 100 balls.

Sri Lanka won the match by 66 runs.

M Jaya was the Man of the Match for his great batting performance. This also helped Sri Lanka won the series 2-0 with one more game to play.

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