Sri Lanka beat England in 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 1st match of the series was played on Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium, Dambulla, Sri Lanka on 23rd March, 2001.

England won the toss and opts to bat first in this 1^St One Day International match. This is how England team and 11 was looking like in this match: Marcus Trescothick, 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 1^st One day international match: Marvan Atapattu, Mahela Jayawardene, Sanath Jayasuriya (c), Kumar Sangakkara, Chaminda Vaas, Nuwan Zoysa, Muttiah Muralitharan, Russel Arnold, Indika de Saram, Romesh Kaluwitharana (wk), Kumar Dharmasena.

England started badly and lost its first 5 wickets on the team score of only 97 runs in 31 over’s in the form of A Stewart, G Hick, Marcus T, M Vaughan and A flintoff and kept losing wickets at regular intervals and were finally bowled out for only 143 runs in 48.5 over’s and top scored by Skipper G Thorpe who made 62 runs in 107 balls with 5 4’s and strike rate of 58 runs in 100 balls and Marcus T made 26 runs in 63 balls with 1 four.

Sri Lanka was needed to score 144 runs in 50 over’s to win this game.

Sri Lanka batted well and was able to reach this target in only 40.5 over’s at the loss of 5 wickets and top scored by M Atapattu who made 40 runs in 89 balls with 1 four and strike rate of 45 runs in 100 balls and R Arnold who made contribution of 39 runs 83 balls with 3 4’s and strike rate of 47 runs in 100.

Sri Lanka won the match by 5 wickets and M Murlitharan was the Man of the match for his 4 wickets in 10 over’s by only conceding 29 runs.

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