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Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat. No play was possible before lunch on day 2 due to rain and wet outfield. Milan Rathnayake (SL) made his Test debut. Ollie Pope captained England in Tests for the first time. [13] Jamie Smith (Eng) scored his first century in Tests. [14] World Test Championship points: England 12, Sri Lanka 0.
The Sri Lanka national cricket team toured England from 8 May to 5 July 2016 for a three-match Test series, a five-match One Day International (ODI) series and a one-off Twenty20 International (T20I) against the England cricket team. England won the Test series 2–0, the ODI series 3–0 and won the one-off T20I match by 8 wickets.
The Sri Lanka national cricket team played their first Test match on 17 February 1982, against England, and recorded their first victory on 6 September 1985, in a match against India. [5] Since then, they have played nearly 300 matches, against every other Test-playing nation. [ 6 ]
Sri Lanka 152-2 (25.4) Nissanka 77, Samarawickrama 65, Rashid 0-41 (4.4) - Sri Lanka win by 8 wickets 14:47 , Mike Jones Nissanka tries to win it in style with a slog sweep against Adil Rashid who ...
They also played three one-day and one four-day tour matches against English county sides, as well as preceding the entire tour with a two-match ODI series against Ireland. Sri Lanka won the Test series 1–0 (the first time they had won a Test series with more than one match in England), the ODI series 3–2 and the one-off T20I.
Originally England's tour to Sri Lanka was scheduled to take place in March 2020. [12] [13] However, on 13 March 2020, the two-match Test series was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [14] At the time of the announcement, England were mid-way through a four-day match against the Sri Lanka Board President's XI team, which was ended abruptly ...
Sri Lanka captain Dhananjaya de Silva hit 74 to help his team fight back from a perilous position and reach tea at 178-8 on Day 1 of the first test against England. With the tourists struggling on ...
Sri Lanka's B. C. Cooray alongside South Africa's Rudi Koertzen were appointed as standing umpires for the second Test match at Asgiriya Stadium, Kandy. [2] He and Koertzen made fair share of errors during the test match which eventually changed the outcome of the match with England winning the match by a margin of three wickets in a low scoring yet tricky run-chase.