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| Venue | Asgiriya Stadium, Kandy on 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th March 2001 (5-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Sri Lanka won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | England won by 3 wickets |
| Umpires | BC Cooray, RE Koertzen |
| TV umpire | PT Manuel |
| Referee | Hanumant Singh |
| Close of play day 1 | England (1) 1/0 (Atherton 0*, Trescothick 1*; 2 overs) |
| Close of play day 2 | England (1) 249/5 (Stewart 16*, White 6*; 98 overs) |
| Close of play day 3 | Sri Lanka (2) 98/6 (Sangakkara 47*, Dharmasena 1*; 31 overs) |
| Close of play day 4 | England (2) 91/4 (Stewart 2*, Croft 1*; 31 overs) |
| Player of the Match | D Gough |
| Sri Lanka first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| MS Atapattu | b Gough | 16 | 25 | 30 | 4 | - | |
| *ST Jayasuriya | c Giles b Caddick | 9 | 26 | 46 | 1 | - | |
| +KC Sangakkara | c Trescothick b White | 17 | 24 | 45 | 3 | - | |
| PA de Silva | c and b White | 29 | 33 | 48 | 5 | 1 | |
| DPMD Jayawardene | c Thorpe b Caddick | 101 | 165 | 180 | 12 | 1 | |
| RP Arnold | c White b Gough | 65 | 165 | 242 | 10 | - | |
| TM Dilshan | c Atherton b Gough | 36 | 59 | 103 | 6 | - | |
| HDPK Dharmasena | c Thorpe b Gough | 1 | 8 | 10 | - | - | |
| WPUJC Vaas | c Thorpe b Caddick | 2 | 6 | 7 | - | - | |
| DNT Zoysa | c Stewart b Caddick | 0 | 6 | 12 | - | - | |
| M Muralitharan | not out | 10 | 6 | 8 | 2 | - | |
| Extras | (1 b, 3 lb, 7 nb) | 11 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 369 minutes, 86 overs) | 297 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-21 (Atapattu, 6.5 ov), 2-29 (Jayasuriya, 9.5 ov), 3-69 (Sangakkara, 15.3 ov), 4-80 (de Silva, 19.4 ov), 5-221 (Jayawardene, 60.6 ov), 6-277 (Arnold, 80.2 ov), 7-279 (Dharmasena, 82.3 ov), 8-282 (Vaas, 83.5 ov), 9-286 (Dilshan, 84.2 ov), 10-297 (Zoysa, 86 ov) | |||||||
| England bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Gough | 14 | 1 | 73 | 4 | - | 4 | |
| Caddick | 20 | 3 | 55 | 4 | - | 1 | |
| Giles | 15 | 2 | 47 | 0 | - | - | |
| White | 17 | 3 | 70 | 2 | - | 2 | |
| Croft | 20 | 2 | 48 | 0 | - | - | |
| England first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| MA Atherton | lbw b Vaas | 7 | 20 | 27 | 1 | - | |
| ME Trescothick | c Sangakkara b Dharmasena | 23 | 49 | 71 | 3 | - | |
| *N Hussain | b Muralitharan | 109 | 255 | 298 | 12 | 3 | |
| GP Thorpe | c Dilshan b Jayasuriya | 59 | 153 | 217 | 6 | - | |
| +AJ Stewart | c Dilshan b Jayasuriya | 54 | 159 | 219 | 9 | - | |
| GA Hick | lbw b Muralitharan | 0 | 11 | 11 | - | - | |
| C White | st Sangakkara b Jayasuriya | 39 | 113 | 127 | 6 | - | |
| AF Giles | b Muralitharan | 5 | 37 | 39 | - | - | |
| RDB Croft | not out | 33 | 78 | 89 | 4 | - | |
| AR Caddick | b Muralitharan | 7 | 23 | 17 | 1 | - | |
| D Gough | lbw b Vaas | 10 | 48 | 57 | 1 | - | |
| Extras | (16 b, 20 lb, 4 nb, 1 w) | 41 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 584 minutes, 157 overs) | 387 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-16 (Atherton, 6.2 ov), 2-37 (Trescothick, 16.2 ov), 3-204 (Thorpe, 71.3 ov), 4-232 (Hussain, 84.4 ov), 5-236 (Hick, 88.3 ov), 6-323 (White, 122.1 ov), 7-330 (Stewart, 130.1 ov), 8-336 (Giles, 133.6 ov), 9-346 (Caddick, 139.3 ov), 10-387 (Gough, 157 ov) | |||||||
| Sri Lanka bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Vaas | 23 | 7 | 39 | 2 | - | - | |
| Zoysa | 10 | 2 | 35 | 0 | 1 | - | |
| Muralitharan | 63 | 21 | 127 | 4 | - | 4 | |
| Dharmasena | 27 | 4 | 74 | 1 | - | - | |
| Jayasuriya | 34 | 10 | 76 | 3 | - | - | |
| Sri Lanka second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| MS Atapattu | c Stewart b Gough | 2 | 4 | 2 | - | - | |
| *ST Jayasuriya | c Thorpe b Caddick | 0 | 1 | 8 | - | - | |
| +KC Sangakkara | st Stewart b Croft | 95 | 184 | 255 | 13 | - | |
| PA de Silva | c White b Gough | 1 | 4 | 5 | - | - | |
| DPMD Jayawardene | b White | 18 | 29 | 36 | 3 | - | |
| RP Arnold | lbw b Croft | 22 | 48 | 69 | 5 | - | |
| TM Dilshan | c Hick b Croft | 0 | 3 | 7 | - | - | |
| HDPK Dharmasena | c Hick b Gough | 54 | 181 | 226 | 8 | - | |
| WPUJC Vaas | c Croft b White | 36 | 83 | 112 | 5 | - | |
| DNT Zoysa | c Hick b Gough | 0 | 6 | 10 | - | - | |
| M Muralitharan | not out | 6 | 3 | 5 | - | 1 | |
| Extras | (2 b, 3 lb, 11 nb) | 16 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 370 minutes, 89.1 overs) | 250 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-2 (Atapattu, 0.4 ov), 2-2 (Jayasuriya, 1.1 ov), 3-3 (de Silva, 2.1 ov), 4-42 (Jayawardene, 9.5 ov), 5-81 (Arnold, 24.6 ov), 6-88 (Dilshan, 26.3 ov), 7-181 (Sangakkara, 61.5 ov), 8-234 (Dharmasena, 86.3 ov), 9-242 (Zoysa, 88.3 ov), 10-250 (Vaas, 89.1 ov) | |||||||
| England bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Gough | 22 | 6 | 50 | 4 | - | 3 | |
| Caddick | 18 | 5 | 55 | 1 | - | 4 | |
| White | 12.1 | 3 | 42 | 2 | - | 1 | |
| Croft | 22 | 11 | 40 | 3 | - | - | |
| Giles | 15 | 3 | 58 | 0 | - | 3 | |
| England second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| MA Atherton | c Sangakkara b Vaas | 11 | 18 | 27 | 2 | - | |
| ME Trescothick | lbw b Vaas | 13 | 21 | 33 | 2 | - | |
| *N Hussain | c Sangakkara b Vaas | 15 | 65 | 92 | 1 | - | |
| GP Thorpe | c Sangakkara b Muralitharan | 46 | 58 | 73 | 6 | - | |
| +AJ Stewart | lbw b Vaas | 7 | 37 | 45 | - | - | |
| RDB Croft | lbw b Dharmasena | 17 | 89 | 114 | 1 | - | |
| GA Hick | b Jayasuriya | 16 | 34 | 33 | 2 | - | |
| C White | not out | 21 | 74 | 88 | 2 | - | |
| AF Giles | not out | 4 | 33 | 38 | - | - | |
| D Gough | did not bat | ||||||
| AR Caddick | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (1 b, 8 lb, 2 nb) | 11 | |||||
| Total | (7 wickets, 274 minutes, 71.1 overs) | 161 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-24 (Atherton, 6.2 ov), 2-25 (Trescothick, 6.6 ov), 3-86 (Thorpe, 25.1 ov), 4-89 (Hussain, 28.4 ov), 5-97 (Stewart, 36.6 ov), 6-122 (Hick, 45.6 ov), 7-142 (Croft, 60.4 ov) | |||||||
| Sri Lanka bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Vaas | 18 | 4 | 39 | 4 | - | - | |
| Zoysa | 2 | 0 | 16 | 0 | - | - | |
| Dharmasena | 8 | 0 | 25 | 1 | - | - | |
| Muralitharan | 27 | 7 | 50 | 1 | - | 2 | |
| Jayasuriya | 16.1 | 6 | 22 | 1 | - | - | |