| a21720 | |
| Venue | Welagedara Stadium, Kurunegala on 31st January 2012 (50-over match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | England Lions won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Sri Lanka A won by 6 wickets |
| Umpires | AG Dissanayake, REJ Martinesz |
| Referee | BCMS Mendis |
| Reserve Umpire | RR Wimalasiri |
| England Lions innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| JE Root | st Perera b Prasanna | 0 | 3 | 1 | - | - | 0.00 |
| AD Hales | run out (Karunaratne->Mirando) | 27 | 29 | 48 | 1 | 1 | 93.10 |
| *JWA Taylor | st Perera b Prasanna | 13 | 17 | 20 | 3 | - | 76.47 |
| JC Buttler | c Karunaratne b Gunathilleke | 119 | 130 | 160 | 11 | 1 | 91.54 |
| +C Kieswetter | b Prasanna | 24 | 32 | 40 | 2 | 1 | 75.00 |
| JM Bairstow | lbw b Kaluhalamulla | 31 | 41 | 43 | 3 | - | 75.61 |
| SR Patel | run out (Kaluhalamulla->Gunathilleke) | 11 | 15 | 20 | 1 | - | 73.33 |
| DR Briggs | lbw b Gunathilleke | 5 | 13 | 17 | - | - | 38.46 |
| NL Buck | b Mirando | 6 | 10 | 11 | - | - | 60.00 |
| JA Brooks | not out | 2 | 4 | 11 | - | - | 50.00 |
| JW Dernbach | not out | 5 | 7 | 7 | - | - | 71.43 |
| Extras | (4 b, 3 lb, 1 nb, 7 w) | 15 | |||||
| Total | (9 wickets, innings closed, 191 minutes, 50 overs) | 258 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-0 (Root, 0.3 ov), 2-22 (Taylor, 4.5 ov), 3-63 (Hales, 11.6 ov), 4-119 (Kieswetter, 22.3 ov), 5-186 (Bairstow, 35.6 ov), 6-216 (Patel, 41.2 ov), 7-237 (Briggs, 45.5 ov), 8-246 (Buttler, 47.2 ov), 9-247 (Buck, 48.1 ov) | |||||||
| Sri Lanka A bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Prasanna | 10 | 1 | 32 | 3 | - | - | 20.00 | 3.20 |
| Bandara | 10 | 0 | 54 | 0 | 2 | - | - | 5.40 |
| Mirando | 10 | 1 | 59 | 1 | 3 | - | 60.00 | 5.90 |
| Gunathilleke | 10 | 0 | 46 | 2 | - | 1 | 30.00 | 4.60 |
| Alwitigala | 1 | 0 | 10 | 0 | - | - | - | 10.00 |
| Kaluhalamulla | 9 | 0 | 50 | 1 | - | - | 54.00 | 5.56 |
| Sri Lanka A innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| MD Gunathilleke | lbw b Dernbach | 0 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 0.00 |
| ML Udawatte | c Kieswetter b Brooks | 11 | 11 | 16 | 2 | - | 100.00 |
| FDM Karunaratne | c Buttler b Briggs | 94 | 119 | 163 | 6 | 1 | 78.99 |
| PBB Rajapaksa | c Bairstow b Patel | 72 | 73 | 82 | 11 | - | 98.63 |
| *SHT Kandamby | not out | 55 | 64 | 79 | 4 | 1 | 85.94 |
| +MDKJ Perera | not out | 18 | 16 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 112.50 |
| S Prasanna | did not bat | ||||||
| HKSR Kaluhalamulla | did not bat | ||||||
| HMCM Bandara | did not bat | ||||||
| KG Alwitigala | did not bat | ||||||
| MTT Mirando | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (5 lb, 8 w) | 13 | |||||
| Total | (4 wickets, 179 minutes, 47.3 overs) | 263 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-0 (Gunathilleke, 0.1 ov), 2-22 (Udawatte, 3.2 ov), 3-154 (Rajapaksa, 26.3 ov), 4-236 (Karunaratne, 43.4 ov) | |||||||
| England Lions bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Dernbach | 8 | 0 | 42 | 1 | 3 | - | 48.00 | 5.25 |
| Brooks | 7 | 0 | 38 | 1 | - | - | 42.00 | 5.43 |
| Briggs | 9 | 0 | 46 | 1 | - | - | 54.00 | 5.11 |
| Patel | 10 | 0 | 49 | 1 | 1 | - | 60.00 | 4.90 |
| Buck | 4 | 0 | 27 | 0 | 1 | - | - | 6.75 |
| Root | 9 | 0 | 50 | 0 | - | - | - | 5.56 |
| Hales | 0.3 | 0 | 6 | 0 | - | - | - | 12.00 |