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| Venue | Lord's Cricket Ground, St John's Wood on 20th August 1998 (50-over match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | England won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Sri Lanka won by 5 wickets |
| Umpires | DJ Constant, DR Shepherd |
| TV umpire | JC Balderstone |
| Referee | AM Ebrahim |
| Scorers | LB Hewes, DC Kendix |
| Player of the Match | M Muralitharan |
| England innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| NV Knight | c and b Muralitharan | 94 | 136 | 178 | 4 | - | 69.12 |
| MA Atherton | c Ranatunga b Muralitharan | 64 | 73 | 102 | 7 | - | 87.67 |
| *+AJ Stewart | c Kaluwitharana b Muralitharan | 18 | 24 | 30 | 1 | - | 75.00 |
| GA Hick | b Chandana | 14 | 16 | 23 | 1 | - | 87.50 |
| AD Brown | b Muralitharan | 18 | 18 | 24 | 2 | - | 100.00 |
| N Hussain | lbw b Muralitharan | 0 | 2 | 1 | - | - | 0.00 |
| RDB Croft | c Kaluwitharana b Perera | 17 | 17 | 21 | 1 | - | 100.00 |
| ID Austin | not out | 11 | 12 | 23 | 1 | - | 91.67 |
| D Gough | b Perera | 0 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 0.00 |
| PJ Martin | not out | 1 | 1 | 3 | - | - | 100.00 |
| AD Mullally | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (4 b, 5 lb, 10 w) | 19 | |||||
| Total | (8 wickets, innings closed, 50 overs) | 256 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-132 (Atherton, 25.3 ov), 2-170 (Stewart, 33.5 ov), 3-191 (Hick, 38.5 ov), 4-218 (Knight, 43.4 ov), 5-218 (Hussain, 43.6 ov), 6-223 (Brown, 45.2 ov), 7-246 (Croft, 49.1 ov), 8-246 (Gough, 49.2 ov) | |||||||
| Sri Lanka bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Wickramasinghe | 5 | 0 | 29 | 0 | - | - | - | 5.80 |
| Perera | 9 | 0 | 44 | 2 | 4 | - | 27.00 | 4.89 |
| Dharmasena | 9 | 0 | 47 | 0 | 1 | - | - | 5.22 |
| Muralitharan | 10 | 0 | 34 | 5 | - | - | 12.00 | 3.40 |
| de Silva | 2 | 0 | 10 | 0 | - | - | - | 5.00 |
| Jayasuriya | 8 | 0 | 45 | 0 | - | - | - | 5.62 |
| Chandana | 7 | 0 | 38 | 1 | 2 | - | 42.00 | 5.43 |
| Sri Lanka innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| ST Jayasuriya | b Gough | 0 | 2 | 2 | - | - | 0.00 |
| +RS Kaluwitharana | c Hick b Croft | 68 | 77 | 105 | 6 | - | 88.31 |
| MS Atapattu | not out | 132 | 151 | 197 | 14 | - | 87.42 |
| PA de Silva | c Brown b Gough | 34 | 37 | 58 | 4 | - | 91.89 |
| *A Ranatunga | c Knight b Martin | 1 | 3 | 11 | - | - | 33.33 |
| UDU Chandana | c Knight b Croft | 2 | 7 | 10 | - | - | 28.57 |
| HP Tillakaratne | not out | 10 | 6 | 9 | 2 | - | 166.67 |
| HDPK Dharmasena | did not bat | ||||||
| GP Wickramasinghe | did not bat | ||||||
| ASA Perera | did not bat | ||||||
| M Muralitharan | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (7 lb, 6 w) | 13 | |||||
| Total | (5 wickets, 47.1 overs) | 260 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-2 (Jayasuriya, 0.2 ov), 2-140 (Kaluwitharana, 26.3 ov), 3-210 (de Silva, 40.2 ov), 4-224 (Ranatunga, 43.1 ov), 5-233 (Chandana, 44.5 ov) | |||||||
| England bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Gough | 10 | 0 | 50 | 2 | 2 | - | 30.00 | 5.00 |
| Martin | 10 | 1 | 60 | 1 | 2 | - | 60.00 | 6.00 |
| Mullally | 10 | 0 | 37 | 0 | 1 | - | - | 3.70 |
| Austin | 10 | 1 | 48 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.80 |
| Croft | 7 | 0 | 54 | 2 | 1 | - | 21.00 | 7.71 |
| Hick | 0.1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | - | - | - | 24.00 |