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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.
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 ...
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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.
The Sri Lanka national cricket team toured England in the 1998 season. On the tour they played 4 first-class matches, 5 List A matches and a single Test match. They also competed in a tri-series tournament against England and South Africa, entitled the Emirates Triangular Tournament. They won the competition by defeating England in the final ...
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 ...
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 ]
England's Ollie Pope celebrates reaching his century during day one of the Third Men's Test between England and Sri Lanka at The Oval, London, Friday Sept. 6, 2024. (John Walton/PA via AP ...