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| Venue | Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo on 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st December 2003 (5-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | England won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Sri Lanka won by an innings and 215 runs |
| Umpires | Aleem Dar, SA Bucknor |
| TV umpire | TH Wijewardene |
| Referee | CH Lloyd |
| Close of play day 1 | England (1) 259/8 (Read 13*, Kirtley 1*; 95 overs) |
| Close of play day 2 | Sri Lanka (1) 264/2 (Samaraweera 68*, Jayawardene 60*; 82 overs) |
| Close of play day 3 | Sri Lanka (1) 563/5 (Dilshan 72*, Chandana 54*; 172 overs) |
| Player of the Match | TT Samaraweera |
| England first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| ME Trescothick | c Jayawardene b Muralitharan | 70 | 98 | 119 | 13 | - | |
| *MP Vaughan | c Jayawardene b Chandana | 18 | 51 | 77 | 2 | - | |
| MA Butcher | c Sangakkara b Fernando | 23 | 50 | 49 | 3 | - | |
| N Hussain | lbw b Vaas | 8 | 35 | 49 | 1 | - | |
| GP Thorpe | lbw b Muralitharan | 13 | 39 | 47 | 1 | - | |
| A Flintoff | c and b Muralitharan | 77 | 109 | 136 | 10 | 4 | |
| GJ Batty | c Atapattu b Chandana | 14 | 101 | 98 | 1 | - | |
| +CMW Read | not out | 17 | 64 | 107 | - | 1 | |
| AF Giles | run out (Dilshan->Sangakkara) | 10 | 39 | 43 | 1 | - | |
| RJ Kirtley | lbw b Vaas | 1 | 9 | 10 | - | - | |
| JM Anderson | lbw b Vaas | 1 | 12 | 18 | - | - | |
| Extras | (4 b, 8 lb, 1 nb) | 13 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 380 minutes, 101 overs) | 265 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-78 (Vaughan, 18.6 ov), 2-108 (Trescothick, 31.6 ov), 3-114 (Butcher, 34.1 ov), 4-135 (Hussain, 44.3 ov), 5-139 (Thorpe, 45.5 ov), 6-226 (Batty, 76.5 ov), 7-236 (Flintoff, 83.3 ov), 8-258 (Giles, 93.4 ov), 9-259 (Kirtley, 96.1 ov), 10-265 (Anderson, 101 ov) | |||||||
| Sri Lanka bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Vaas | 17 | 5 | 64 | 3 | - | - | |
| Fernando | 12 | 3 | 55 | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Samaraweera | 4 | 1 | 11 | 0 | - | - | |
| Chandana | 26 | 7 | 82 | 2 | - | - | |
| Muralitharan | 40 | 21 | 40 | 3 | - | - | |
| Jayasuriya | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | - | - | |
| Sri Lanka first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| +KC Sangakkara | c Trescothick b Kirtley | 31 | 42 | 59 | 6 | - | |
| ST Jayasuriya | c Trescothick b Flintoff | 85 | 104 | 169 | 12 | 1 | |
| TT Samaraweera | run out (Read->Batty) | 142 | 408 | 491 | 13 | - | |
| DPMD Jayawardene | c sub b Flintoff | 134 | 246 | 351 | 14 | 1 | |
| TM Dilshan | b Giles | 83 | 131 | 185 | 3 | - | |
| *HP Tillakaratne | b Giles | 12 | 40 | 36 | 1 | - | |
| UDU Chandana | c Vaughan b Kirtley | 76 | 103 | 141 | 7 | 2 | |
| WPUJC Vaas | run out (Giles) | 9 | 11 | 18 | 1 | - | |
| M Muralitharan | not out | 21 | 10 | 14 | 1 | 2 | |
| CRD Fernando | not out | 1 | 2 | 10 | - | - | |
| MS Atapattu | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (7 b, 16 lb, 6 nb, 5 w) | 34 | |||||
| Total | (8 wickets, declared, 747 minutes, 182 overs) | 628 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-71 (Sangakkara, 11.6 ov), 2-138 (Jayasuriya, 38.1 ov), 3-400 (Jayawardene, 128.2 ov), 4-428 (Samaraweera, 136.1 ov), 5-456 (Tillakaratne, 147.6 ov), 6-582 (Dilshan, 175.5 ov), 7-605 (Vaas, 179.4 ov), 8-606 (Chandana, 180.1 ov) | |||||||
| England bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Kirtley | 31 | 4 | 131 | 2 | - | 3 | |
| Anderson | 24 | 5 | 85 | 0 | - | - | |
| Flintoff | 18 | 0 | 47 | 2 | - | 3 | |
| Giles | 65 | 16 | 190 | 2 | - | - | |
| Batty | 41 | 4 | 137 | 0 | - | - | |
| Vaughan | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | - | - | |
| Trescothick | 2 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 1 | - | |
| England second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| ME Trescothick | c sub b Vaas | 0 | 6 | 3 | - | - | |
| *MP Vaughan | c Jayasuriya b Fernando | 14 | 25 | 38 | 2 | - | |
| MA Butcher | b Jayasuriya | 37 | 119 | 149 | 6 | - | |
| N Hussain | c Sangakkara b Muralitharan | 11 | 33 | 35 | 2 | - | |
| GP Thorpe | st Sangakkara b Muralitharan | 19 | 60 | 64 | 2 | - | |
| GJ Batty | st Sangakkara b Muralitharan | 0 | 1 | 3 | - | - | |
| A Flintoff | c Sangakkara b Fernando | 30 | 75 | 89 | 6 | - | |
| +CMW Read | lbw b Jayasuriya | 0 | 9 | 8 | - | - | |
| AF Giles | b Fernando | 13 | 48 | 52 | 1 | - | |
| RJ Kirtley | b Muralitharan | 12 | 25 | 34 | - | 1 | |
| JM Anderson | not out | 1 | 7 | 18 | - | - | |
| Extras | (2 b, 8 lb, 1 nb) | 11 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 251 minutes, 68 overs) | 148 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-0 (Trescothick, 0.6 ov), 2-22 (Vaughan, 7.4 ov), 3-44 (Hussain, 17.6 ov), 4-82 (Thorpe, 37.5 ov), 5-82 (Batty, 37.6 ov), 6-84 (Butcher, 42.3 ov), 7-84 (Read, 44.6 ov), 8-124 (Giles, 60.4 ov), 9-137 (Flintoff, 64.2 ov), 10-148 (Kirtley, 68 ov) | |||||||
| Sri Lanka bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Vaas | 7 | 2 | 25 | 1 | - | - | |
| Fernando | 12 | 4 | 27 | 3 | - | 1 | |
| Chandana | 13 | 7 | 18 | 0 | - | - | |
| Muralitharan | 27 | 9 | 63 | 4 | - | - | |
| Jayasuriya | 9 | 6 | 5 | 2 | - | - | |