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| Venue | R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo on 25th March 2001 (50-over match) (day/night) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Sri Lanka won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Sri Lanka won by 66 runs |
| Umpires | BC Cooray, DN Pathirana |
| TV umpire | EAR de Silva |
| Referee | Hanumant Singh |
| Player of the Match | DPMD Jayawardene |
| Sri Lanka innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| *ST Jayasuriya | b Gough | 0 | 2 | 1 | - | - | 0.00 |
| +RS Kaluwitharana | c Hick b Mullally | 18 | 36 | 47 | 1 | - | 50.00 |
| MS Atapattu | c Caddick b Croft | 57 | 91 | 132 | 2 | - | 62.64 |
| DPMD Jayawardene | not out | 101 | 115 | 172 | 7 | - | 87.83 |
| KC Sangakkara | c and b Croft | 6 | 16 | 17 | - | - | 37.50 |
| SI de Saram | b Caddick | 14 | 22 | 32 | - | - | 63.64 |
| RP Arnold | c Stewart b Mullally | 0 | 2 | 3 | - | - | 0.00 |
| HDPK Dharmasena | not out | 18 | 20 | 30 | 1 | - | 90.00 |
| WPUJC Vaas | did not bat | ||||||
| DNT Zoysa | did not bat | ||||||
| M Muralitharan | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (5 lb, 4 nb, 3 w) | 12 | |||||
| Total | (6 wickets, innings closed, 220 minutes, 50 overs) | 226 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-0 (Jayasuriya, 0.2 ov), 2-33 (Kaluwitharana, 10.3 ov), 3-119 (Atapattu, 31.3 ov), 4-129 (Sangakkara, 35.3 ov), 5-173 (de Saram, 42.5 ov), 6-174 (Arnold, 43.2 ov) | |||||||
| England bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Gough | 10 | 0 | 52 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 60.00 | 5.20 |
| Caddick | 10 | 2 | 37 | 1 | - | - | 60.00 | 3.70 |
| White | 10 | 0 | 55 | 0 | - | 2 | - | 5.50 |
| Mullally | 10 | 1 | 37 | 2 | - | 1 | 30.00 | 3.70 |
| Croft | 10 | 1 | 40 | 2 | 1 | - | 30.00 | 4.00 |
| England innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| ME Trescothick | c Kaluwitharana b Zoysa | 6 | 17 | 24 | 1 | - | 35.29 |
| +AJ Stewart | c Jayawardene b Muralitharan | 55 | 102 | 145 | 2 | - | 53.92 |
| A Flintoff | c Muralitharan b Vaas | 10 | 16 | 20 | 2 | - | 62.50 |
| GA Hick | st Kaluwitharana b Jayasuriya | 11 | 30 | 42 | - | - | 36.67 |
| *GP Thorpe | c Jayawardene b Dharmasena | 12 | 18 | 21 | - | - | 66.67 |
| MP Vaughan | c Arnold b Muralitharan | 26 | 50 | 53 | - | - | 52.00 |
| C White | run out (Jayawardene) | 0 | 3 | 3 | - | - | 0.00 |
| RDB Croft | b Muralitharan | 11 | 16 | 20 | 1 | - | 68.75 |
| AR Caddick | b Dharmasena | 8 | 7 | 10 | - | 1 | 114.29 |
| D Gough | not out | 3 | 9 | 11 | - | - | 33.33 |
| AD Mullally | run out (Atapattu) | 1 | 2 | 3 | - | - | 50.00 |
| Extras | (11 lb, 6 w) | 17 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 182 minutes, 45 overs) | 160 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-14 (Trescothick, 5.2 ov), 2-35 (Flintoff, 10.3 ov), 3-63 (Hick, 20.4 ov), 4-88 (Thorpe, 26.3 ov), 5-119 (Stewart, 35.3 ov), 6-119 (White, 36.1 ov), 7-145 (Vaughan, 41.1 ov), 8-147 (Croft, 41.6 ov), 9-157 (Caddick, 44.1 ov), 10-160 (Mullally, 45 ov) | |||||||
| Sri Lanka bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Vaas | 8 | 2 | 22 | 1 | - | - | 48.00 | 2.75 |
| Zoysa | 7 | 0 | 30 | 1 | 1 | - | 42.00 | 4.29 |
| Dharmasena | 8 | 0 | 31 | 2 | - | - | 24.00 | 3.88 |
| Muralitharan | 9 | 2 | 11 | 3 | - | - | 18.00 | 1.22 |
| Jayasuriya | 8 | 0 | 36 | 1 | 2 | - | 48.00 | 4.50 |
| Arnold | 5 | 0 | 19 | 0 | 1 | - | - | 3.80 |