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| Venue | Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium, Dambulla on 23rd March 2001 (50-over match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | England won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Sri Lanka won by 5 wickets |
| Umpires | EAR de Silva, LV Jayasundara |
| TV umpire | TH Wijewardene |
| Referee | Hanumant Singh |
| Player of the Match | M Muralitharan |
| England innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| ME Trescothick | b Arnold | 26 | 63 | 95 | 1 | - | 41.27 |
| +AJ Stewart | b Zoysa | 21 | 27 | 34 | 3 | 1 | 77.78 |
| GA Hick | c Dharmasena b Zoysa | 2 | 10 | 11 | - | - | 20.00 |
| *GP Thorpe | not out | 62 | 107 | 143 | 5 | - | 57.94 |
| MP Vaughan | st Kaluwitharana b Muralitharan | 9 | 20 | 16 | - | - | 45.00 |
| A Flintoff | st Kaluwitharana b Muralitharan | 2 | 7 | 9 | - | - | 28.57 |
| C White | c de Saram b Muralitharan | 0 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 0.00 |
| AF Giles | run out (Jayawardene) | 7 | 17 | 18 | - | - | 41.18 |
| AR Caddick | c Muralitharan b Jayasuriya | 0 | 8 | 8 | - | - | 0.00 |
| D Gough | c Kaluwitharana b Vaas | 4 | 15 | 13 | 1 | - | 26.67 |
| AD Mullally | lbw b Muralitharan | 0 | 19 | 13 | - | - | 0.00 |
| Extras | (4 lb, 2 nb, 4 w) | 10 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 190 minutes, 48.5 overs) | 143 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-31 (Stewart, 7.2 ov), 2-35 (Hick, 9.6 ov), 3-75 (Trescothick, 23.3 ov), 4-92 (Vaughan, 28.6 ov), 5-97 (Flintoff, 30.5 ov), 6-97 (White, 30.6 ov), 7-113 (Giles, 35.3 ov), 8-118 (Caddick, 37.6 ov), 9-131 (Gough, 41.5 ov), 10-143 (Mullally, 48.5 ov) | |||||||
| Sri Lanka bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Vaas | 9 | 1 | 26 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 54.00 | 2.89 |
| Zoysa | 7 | 0 | 22 | 2 | - | - | 21.00 | 3.14 |
| Dharmasena | 9 | 1 | 18 | 0 | 2 | - | - | 2.00 |
| Arnold | 7 | 0 | 21 | 1 | - | - | 42.00 | 3.00 |
| Muralitharan | 9.5 | 1 | 29 | 4 | - | 1 | 14.75 | 2.95 |
| Jayasuriya | 7 | 0 | 23 | 1 | 1 | - | 42.00 | 3.29 |
| Sri Lanka innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| *ST Jayasuriya | lbw b Mullally | 39 | 35 | 46 | 6 | - | 111.43 |
| +RS Kaluwitharana | c Stewart b Caddick | 2 | 15 | 28 | - | - | 13.33 |
| MS Atapattu | lbw b White | 40 | 89 | 150 | 1 | - | 44.94 |
| DPMD Jayawardene | c Stewart b Gough | 3 | 8 | 7 | - | - | 37.50 |
| KC Sangakkara | c Stewart b Caddick | 1 | 15 | 21 | - | - | 6.67 |
| RP Arnold | not out | 39 | 83 | 113 | 3 | - | 46.99 |
| SI de Saram | not out | 6 | 6 | 10 | 1 | - | 100.00 |
| DNT Zoysa | did not bat | ||||||
| HDPK Dharmasena | did not bat | ||||||
| WPUJC Vaas | did not bat | ||||||
| M Muralitharan | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (8 lb, 5 nb, 1 w) | 14 | |||||
| Total | (5 wickets, 190 minutes, 40.5 overs) | 144 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-31 (Kaluwitharana, 6.2 ov), 2-50 (Jayasuriya, 10.1 ov), 3-54 (Jayawardene, 11.2 ov), 4-58 (Sangakkara, 15.3 ov), 5-128 (Atapattu, 37.2 ov) | |||||||
| England bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Caddick | 8 | 1 | 42 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 24.00 | 5.25 |
| Gough | 10 | 2 | 24 | 1 | - | 2 | 60.00 | 2.40 |
| Mullally | 8 | 1 | 23 | 1 | - | - | 48.00 | 2.88 |
| White | 8 | 2 | 17 | 1 | - | 1 | 48.00 | 2.12 |
| Giles | 5 | 0 | 21 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.20 |
| Vaughan | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | - | - | - | 3.00 |
| Hick | 0.5 | 0 | 6 | 0 | - | - | - | 7.20 |