Sri Lanka beat England in 3rd 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 3rd and final match of the series was played on Sinhalese Sports Club, Colombo, Sri Lanka on 27th March, 2001. This match is like dead rubber as Sri lanka has already won the series 2-0 but both teams still will try to win this match to keep the winning spirit going.

Sri Lanka won the toss and opts to bowl first in this 3rd 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, A Stewart (wk), Graeme Hick, Andy Caddick, Graham Thorpe (c), Craig White, Alan M

And Sri Lanka team and 11 was looking like this in this 3rd One day international match: Marvan A, Mahela Jayawardene, Sanath Jayasuriya (c), Kumar Sangakkara, C Vaas, Nuwan Zoysa, Muttiah Muralitharan, Russel Arnold, I de Saram, Romesh Kaluwitharana (wk), Kumar Dharmasena.

England started poorly and was 5 wickets down at only 88 runs in 29.3 over’s in the form of A Stewart, Marcus T, Nick K, G Thorpe and A Flintoff and kept losing wickets at regular intervals in the game and were only able to make 165 runs in 50 over’s at the loss of 9 wickets and top scored by G Hick who made 46 runs in 114 balls with 2 4’s and strike rate of 40 runs in 100 balls.

Sri Lanka needed to score 166 runs to win this match and series by 3-0 margin.

Sri Lanka batted superbly and was able to chase the target in only 33.5 over’s at the loss of no wicket and top scored by Ramesk K who made 102 runs in 117 balls with 20 4’s and strike rate of 87 runs in 100 balls and Skipper M Attapattu who made 53 runs in 92 balls.

Sri Lanka won the game by 10 wickets and Ramesh K was the Man of the match for his great knock.

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