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Test no. 1423

Sri Lanka in England Test Match
England v Sri Lanka

1998 season

Played at Kennington Oval, London, on 27,28,29,30,31 August 1998 (5-day match)

Result Sri Lanka won by 10 wickets


England 1st innings			R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	MA Butcher	c Jayasuriya b Wickramasinghe	10	29	26	1	0	38.46
	SP James	c & b Muralitharan	36	133	111	3	0	32.43
	GA Hick	c Kaluwitharana b Wickramasinghe	107	347	238	14	0	44.95
	AJ Stewart	c Tillakaratne b Perera	2	6	9	0	0	22.22
	MR Ramprakash	c Jayawardene b Muralitharan	53	175	149	4	0	35.57
	JP Crawley	not out	156	318	249	19	1	62.65
	BC Hollioake	c Atapattu b Muralitharan	14	88	53	1	0	26.41
	DG Cork	b Muralitharan	6	74	48	0	0	12.50
	IDK Salisbury	b Muralitharan	2	16	17	0	0	11.76
	D Gough	c Kaluwitharana b Muralitharan	4	15	8	1	0	50.00
	ARC Fraser	b Muralitharan	32	59	52	3	2	61.53
	Extras	(b 1, lb 11, w 2, nb 9)	23

	Total	(all out; 158.3 overs)	445	(2.80 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-16 (Butcher, 6.6 ov), 2-78 (James, 33.2 ov), 3-81 (Stewart, 34.6 ov), 4-209 (Ramprakash, 81.3 ov), 5-230 (Hick, 94.2 ov), 6-277 (Hollioake, 115.3 ov), 7-333 (Cork, 134.1 ov), 8-343 (Salisbury, 138.4 ov), 9-356 (Gough, 142.3 ov), 10-445 (Fraser, 158.3 ov)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
GP Wickramasinghe	30	4	81	2	2.70	(1nb, 2w)
ASA Perera	40	10	104	1	2.60
HDPK Dharmasena	18	3	55	0	3.05
M Muralitharan	59.3	14	155	7	2.60	(8nb)
ST Jayasuriya	11	0	38	0	3.45


Sri Lanka 1st innings			R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	ST Jayasuriya	c Stewart b Hollioake	213	346	278	33	1	76.61
	MS Atapattu	lbw b Cork	15	55	26	1	0	57.69
	DPMD Jayawardene	c Hollioake b Fraser	9	56	40	0	0	22.50
	PA de Silva	c Stewart b Hollioake	152	461	292	17	0	52.05
	A Ranatunga	lbw b Gough	51	138	99	7	1	51.51
	HP Tillakaratne	lbw b Gough	0	1	1	0	0	0.00
	RS Kaluwitharana	c Crawley b Cork	25	57	50	2	0	50.00
	HDPK Dharmasena	lbw b Fraser	13	61	39	2	0	33.33
	ASA Perera	not out	43	104	77	6	1	55.84
	GP Wickramasinghe	b Fraser	0	11	7	0	0	0.00
	M Muralitharan	c Stewart b Salisbury	30	55	36	5	0	83.33
	Extras	(b 15, lb 20, w 1, nb 4)	40

	Total	(all out; 156.5 overs)	591	(3.76 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-53 (Atapattu, 12.1 ov), 2-85 (Jayawardene, 25.2 ov), 3-328 (Jayasuriya, 79.3 ov), 4-450 (Ranatunga, 112.1 ov), 5-450 (Tillakaratne, 112.2 ov), 6-488 (Kaluwitharana, 125.5 ov), 7-504 (de Silva, 132.4 ov), 8-526 (Dharmasena, 141.1 ov), 9-532 (Wickramasinghe, 143.5 ov), 10-591 (Muralitharan, 156.5 ov)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
D Gough	30	5	102	2	3.40
ARC Fraser	23	3	95	3	4.13
BC Hollioake	26	2	105	2	4.03	(1nb, 1w)
DG Cork	36	5	128	2	3.55	(3nb)
IDK Salisbury	25.5	7	86	1	3.32
MR Ramprakash	5	0	24	0	4.80
MA Butcher	11	2	16	0	1.45


England 2nd innings			R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	MA Butcher	st Kaluwitharana b Muralitharan	15	53	45	3	0	33.33
	SP James	c Jayawardene b Muralitharan	25	185	150	1	0	16.66
	GA Hick	lbw b Muralitharan	0	4	2	0	0	0.00
	AJ Stewart	run out (sub [UDU Chandana])	32	149	145	1	0	22.06
	MR Ramprakash	c Tillakaratne b Muralitharan	42	246	220	3	0	19.09
	JP Crawley	b Muralitharan	14	53	59	2	0	23.72
	BC Hollioake	lbw b Muralitharan	0	1	1	0	0	0.00
	DG Cork	c Kaluwitharana b Muralitharan	8	22	23	2	0	34.78
	IDK Salisbury	lbw b Muralitharan	0	2	4	0	0	0.00
	D Gough	b Muralitharan	15	145	133	2	0	11.27
	ARC Fraser	not out	0	5	6	0	0	0.00
	Extras	(b 7, lb 8, w 1, nb 14)	30

	Total	(all out; 129.2 overs)	181	(1.39 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-25 (Butcher, 14.6 ov), 2-25 (Hick, 16.2 ov), 3-78 (James, 52.1 ov), 4-93 (Stewart, 58.6 ov), 5-116 (Crawley, 77.1 ov), 6-116 (Hollioake, 77.2 ov), 7-127 (Cork, 85.1 ov), 8-127 (Salisbury, 85.5 ov), 9-180 (Ramprakash, 127.1 ov), 10-181 (Gough, 129.2 ov)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
GP Wickramasinghe	4	0	16	0	4.00
ASA Perera	11	2	22	0	2.00	(1w)
M Muralitharan	54.2	27	65	9	1.19	(12nb)
HDPK Dharmasena	19.3	13	12	0	0.61
ST Jayasuriya	28	14	30	0	1.07
PA de Silva	10.3	3	16	0	1.52
DPMD Jayawardene	2	0	5	0	2.50


Sri Lanka 2nd innings (target: 36 runs)			R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	ST Jayasuriya	not out	24	22	17	2	2	141.17
	MS Atapattu	not out	9	22	13	1	0	69.23
	Extras	(lb 4)	4

	Total	(0 wickets; 5 overs)	37	(7.40 runs per over)

Did not bat DPMD Jayawardene, PA de Silva,

A Ranatunga, HP Tillakaratne,

RS Kaluwitharana, M Muralitharan, GP Wickramasinghe, ASA Perera, HDPK Dharmasena


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
ARC Fraser	2	0	19	0	9.50
DG Cork	2	0	3	0	1.50
BC Hollioake	1	0	11	0	11.00

Toss Sri Lanka, who chose to field first
Series Sri Lanka won the one-off match

Test debut ASA Perera (Sri Lanka)
Player of the match M Muralitharan (Sri Lanka)

Umpires EA Nicholls (West Indies) and DR Shepherd
TV umpire JW Holder
Match referee AM Ebrahim (Zimbabwe)

Close of play
27 Aug day 1 - England 1st innings 228/4 (GA Hick 107*, JP Crawley 10*, 91 ov)
28 Aug day 2 - Sri Lanka 1st innings 79/1 (ST Jayasuriya 59*, DPMD Jayawardene 4*, 20 ov)
29 Aug day 3 - Sri Lanka 1st innings 446/3 (PA de Silva 125*, A Ranatunga 50*, 110 ov)
30 Aug day 4 - England 2nd innings 54/2 (SP James 20*, AJ Stewart 15*, 42 ov)
31 Aug day 5 - Sri Lanka 2nd innings 37/0 (5 ov) - end of match

Match notes

Day 2
Crawley and Fraser's partnership beats the previous record for England v Sri Lanka (40, between Malcolm and Emburey in 1993).

Day 3
When de Silva reached 23, he became the first Sri Lankan to reach 5000 Test runs
de Silva and Jayasuriya's stand of 243 was the highest for any Sri Lankan wicket against England, or for their third wicket against any country.

Day 5
UDU Chandana substituted for PA de Silva
MS Atapattu scored his 1000th Test run
Muralitharan took his 200th Test wicket when he dismissed Cork
Muralitharan's 9/65 was the best bowling in Tests by a Sri Lankan, and the 7th best analysis of all time in Tests
Muralitharan's match figures of 16/220 are the best by a Sri Lankan, and the 5th best analysis of all time in Tests