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| Venue | Lord's Cricket Ground, St John's Wood on 16th August 1998 (50-over match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Sri Lanka won the toss and decided to field |
| Result | England won by 36 runs |
| Points | England 2; Sri Lanka 0 |
| Umpires | MJ Kitchen, KE Palmer |
| TV umpire | TE Jesty |
| Referee | AM Ebrahim |
| Scorers | LB Hewes, DC Kendix |
| Player of the Match | GA Hick |
| England innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| NV Knight | c Atapattu b Wickramasinghe | 17 | 28 | 51 | 1 | - | 60.71 |
| AD Brown | c Atapattu b Wickramasinghe | 12 | 11 | 11 | 2 | - | 109.09 |
| *+AJ Stewart | b Jayasuriya | 51 | 67 | 94 | 8 | - | 76.12 |
| GA Hick | run out (Atapattu->Kaluwitharana) | 86 | 97 | 122 | 4 | 1 | 88.66 |
| N Hussain | b Dharmasena | 39 | 61 | 60 | 1 | 1 | 63.93 |
| AJ Hollioake | b Jayasuriya | 3 | 4 | 7 | - | - | 75.00 |
| RDB Croft | c Kaluwitharana b Perera | 3 | 7 | 13 | - | - | 42.86 |
| ID Austin | b Jayasuriya | 8 | 12 | 19 | - | - | 66.67 |
| PJ Martin | run out (Kaluwitharana->Dharmasena) | 3 | 2 | 4 | - | - | 150.00 |
| D Gough | not out | 1 | 3 | 12 | - | - | 33.33 |
| AD Mullally | b Perera | 1 | 6 | 4 | - | - | 16.67 |
| Extras | (11 lb, 12 w) | 23 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 49.3 overs) | 247 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-14 (Brown, 2.4 ov), 2-56 (Knight, 10.4 ov), 3-132 (Stewart, 24.6 ov), 4-223 (Hussain, 43.5 ov), 5-224 (Hick, 44.1 ov), 6-228 (Hollioake, 44.5 ov), 7-233 (Croft, 46.3 ov), 8-241 (Martin, 47.3 ov), 9-244 (Austin, 48.1 ov), 10-247 (Mullally, 49.3 ov) | |||||||
| Sri Lanka bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Wickramasinghe | 7 | 0 | 33 | 2 | 2 | - | 21.00 | 4.71 |
| Perera | 9.3 | 0 | 48 | 2 | 4 | - | 28.50 | 5.05 |
| Hathurusingha | 3 | 0 | 23 | 0 | 1 | - | - | 7.67 |
| Dharmasena | 10 | 0 | 54 | 1 | 2 | - | 60.00 | 5.40 |
| Muralitharan | 10 | 0 | 42 | 0 | - | 1 | - | 4.20 |
| Jayasuriya | 10 | 0 | 36 | 3 | 2 | - | 20.00 | 3.60 |
| Sri Lanka innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| ST Jayasuriya | c Knight b Gough | 11 | 13 | 12 | 2 | - | 84.62 |
| +RS Kaluwitharana | c Stewart b Martin | 2 | 3 | 9 | - | - | 66.67 |
| MS Atapattu | lbw b Gough | 6 | 9 | 13 | 1 | - | 66.67 |
| PA de Silva | lbw b Austin | 33 | 45 | 76 | 5 | - | 73.33 |
| RP Arnold | b Mullally | 3 | 21 | 25 | - | - | 14.29 |
| *A Ranatunga | b Croft | 33 | 68 | 83 | 4 | - | 48.53 |
| UC Hathurusingha | c Stewart b Mullally | 7 | 12 | 13 | 1 | - | 58.33 |
| HDPK Dharmasena | not out | 33 | 74 | 99 | 1 | - | 44.59 |
| ASA Perera | c Brown b Hollioake | 17 | 25 | 30 | 2 | - | 68.00 |
| GP Wickramasinghe | b Gough | 18 | 26 | 22 | - | - | 69.23 |
| M Muralitharan | b Austin | 18 | 13 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 138.46 |
| Extras | (1 b, 13 lb, 6 nb, 10 w) | 30 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 49.3 overs) | 211 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-13 (Kaluwitharana, 1.5 ov), 2-17 (Jayasuriya, 2.3 ov), 3-28 (Atapattu, 4.5 ov), 4-49 (Arnold, 10.6 ov), 5-83 (de Silva, 19.2 ov), 6-97 (Hathurusingha, 22.5 ov), 7-126 (Ranatunga, 30.4 ov), 8-159 (Perera, 39.4 ov), 9-189 (Wickramasinghe, 46.4 ov), 10-211 (Muralitharan, 49.3 ov) | |||||||
| England bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Gough | 10 | 0 | 51 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 20.00 | 5.10 |
| Martin | 8 | 0 | 34 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 48.00 | 4.25 |
| Mullally | 8 | 1 | 20 | 2 | - | - | 24.00 | 2.50 |
| Austin | 8.3 | 0 | 37 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 25.50 | 4.35 |
| Croft | 10 | 0 | 37 | 1 | - | - | 60.00 | 3.70 |
| Hollioake | 5 | 0 | 18 | 1 | 1 | - | 30.00 | 3.60 |