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| Venue | Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo on 14th February 1982 (45-over match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | England won the toss and decided to field |
| Result | Sri Lanka won by 3 runs |
| Umpires | KT Francis, PW Vidanagamage |
| Player of the Match | S Wettimuny |
| Sri Lanka innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| *B Warnapura | c Taylor b Botham | 4 | 25 | 30 | - | - | 16.00 |
| S Wettimuny | not out | 86 | 109 | 230 | 8 | - | 78.90 |
| LRD Mendis | c and b Botham | 0 | 3 | 2 | - | - | 0.00 |
| RL Dias | hit wkt b Lever | 26 | 36 | 45 | 4 | - | 72.22 |
| A Ranatunga | run out | 42 | 53 | 81 | 1 | - | 79.25 |
| AN Ranasinghe | c Gooch b Underwood | 0 | 4 | 3 | - | - | 0.00 |
| RS Madugalle | c Taylor b Lever | 12 | 17 | 25 | 1 | - | 70.59 |
| ALF de Mel | run out | 14 | 12 | 18 | 1 | - | 116.67 |
| DS de Silva | not out | 9 | 15 | 19 | 1 | - | 60.00 |
| +HM Goonatilleke | did not bat | ||||||
| GRA de Silva | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (2 b, 18 lb, 1 nb, 1 w) | 22 | |||||
| Total | (7 wickets, innings closed, 45 overs) | 215 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-5 (Warnapura), 2-5 (Mendis), 3-43 (Dias), 4-130 (Ranatunga), 5-130 (Ranasinghe), 6-158 (Madugalle), 7-186 (de Mel) | |||||||
| England bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Willis | 9 | 1 | 26 | 0 | - | - | - | 2.89 |
| Botham | 9 | 4 | 29 | 2 | - | - | 27.00 | 3.22 |
| Lever | 9 | 0 | 51 | 2 | - | - | 27.00 | 5.67 |
| Gooch | 9 | 0 | 50 | 0 | - | - | - | 5.56 |
| Underwood | 9 | 0 | 37 | 1 | - | - | 54.00 | 4.11 |
| England innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| GA Gooch | st Goonatilleke b GRA de Silva | 74 | 85 | 98 | 9 | 1 | 87.06 |
| G Cook | st Goonatilleke b GRA de Silva | 32 | 81 | 108 | 1 | - | 39.51 |
| DI Gower | lbw b de Mel | 6 | 9 | 13 | 1 | - | 66.67 |
| IT Botham | c and b Warnapura | 13 | 21 | 38 | - | - | 61.90 |
| *KWR Fletcher | run out | 38 | 48 | 72 | 3 | - | 79.17 |
| CJ Tavaré | b DS de Silva | 5 | 9 | 13 | 1 | - | 55.56 |
| MW Gatting | run out | 18 | 13 | 20 | 1 | 1 | 138.46 |
| +RW Taylor | run out | 3 | 5 | 8 | - | - | 60.00 |
| JK Lever | not out | 2 | 3 | 9 | - | - | 66.67 |
| DL Underwood | run out | 0 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 0.00 |
| RGD Willis | c Madugalle b de Mel | 0 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 0.00 |
| Extras | (19 lb, 1 nb, 1 w) | 21 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 44.5 overs) | 212 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-109 (Cook), 2-122 (Gower), 3-122 (Gooch), 4-147 (Botham), 5-170 (Tavaré), 6-203 (Gatting), 7-206 (Taylor), 8-211 (Fletcher), 9-211 (Underwood), 10-212 (Willis) | |||||||
| Sri Lanka bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| de Mel | 8.5 | 0 | 14 | 2 | - | - | 26.50 | 1.58 |
| Ranasinghe | 9 | 0 | 37 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.11 |
| Warnapura | 9 | 0 | 42 | 1 | - | - | 54.00 | 4.67 |
| DS de Silva | 9 | 0 | 54 | 1 | - | - | 54.00 | 6.00 |
| GRA de Silva | 9 | 1 | 44 | 2 | - | - | 27.00 | 4.89 |