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England vs Sri Lanka Scorecard, 4th ODI, Sri Lanka vs England 2018
Result · Oct 20 2018, Sat - 09:45 AM (IST)
SRI LANKA273/7
ENGLAND132/2
England won by 18 runs (DLS Method)
CRR:4.89
Player Of The Match
Match Info
| Series: | England in Sri Lanka 2018 |
| Date: | Oct 20 2018, Sat - 09:45 AM (IST) |
| Country: | Sri Lanka |
| City: | Kandy |
| Venue: | Pallekele International Cricket Stadium |
| Toss: | England won the toss and elected to bowl. |
| Sri Lanka Playing XI: | Niroshan Dickwella (wk), Sadeera Samarawickrama, Kusal Mendis, Dinesh Chandimal (c), Dhananjaya de Silva, Dasun Shanaka, Thisara Perera, Akila Dananjaya, Lasith Malinga, Amila Aponso, Kasun Rajitha |
| England Playing XI: | Jason Roy, Alex Hales, Joe Root, Eoin Morgan (c), Ben Stokes, Jos Buttler (wk), Moeen Ali, Chris Woakes, Adil Rashid, Tom Curran, Olly Stone |
- Sri Lanka have failed to win any of their last six completed One-Day Internationals versus England (T1 L5); they had won three on the spin immediately beforehand against them.
- England and Sri Lanka have met three times before in ODIs at this venue in Kandy, each side picking up a victory in two clashes in December 2014 whilst the tourists picked up a comfortable seven-wicket win last time out in this series.
- Anything but a win in this game for Sri Lanka will mark their sixth ODI bilateral series loss in a row; they've now gone 10 series without recording victory, their last series win coming in 2016 against Ireland.
- England have claimed 40 victories in their 52 completed ODI matches since June 2016 (T1 L11); the most ODI wins in that time of any side.
- Sri Lanka have tasted defeat in 23 of their last 29 ODI matches, managing just six wins in that time; they are currently enduring a four-match losing streak in this format.
- Lasith Malinga has taken 24 wickets at the Pallekele Stadium in Kandy, six more than any other bowler; he finished with figures of 0/39 in the 3rd ODI however.
- Jonny Bairstow has scored 1,025 ODI runs in 2018 so far, another 62 runs will see him surpass David Gower's tally of 1,086 in 1983, only Jonathan Trott (1,315 in 2011) has scored more in a calendar year for England.
- Joe Root (904) is only 96 shy of scoring 1,000 ODI runs in 2018, his previous best tally in a calendar year was 983 in 2017; 96 runs would also see Root reach 5,000 ODI career runs (currently 4,904).
- Eoin Morgan comes into this game having registered scores of 58*, 92, 14*, 88* and 53 across his last five ODI innings (averaging 152.5 in that time); he's averaged over 40 in three of the last four calendar years in this format, including the rate of 40.3 he's managed so far in 2018.
- Adil Rashid has taken 95 ODI wickets at an average of 26.9 since the start of 2016; he claimed 22 scalps at an average of 44.2 in his 20 appearances before that time.