England, aided by DLS, takes rain hampered ODI series in Sri Lanka

DLS method came to play again as rain came down offer a close win to England and thus the 5 match ODI series 3-0 at Pallekele stadium on Saturday. Sri Lanka got off to good start, but lost wickets at regular intervals before Dasun Shanaka and Thisara Perera blazed out the English attack to bring the total to a winning 273 at the end of 50 over.

England were 132 for two in the 27th over to take the match by 18 runs when the play was abandoned due to rain.

‘I thought 274 was a winning total’

Sri Lanka captain Dinesh Chandimal: “We batted well and can take the positives from that. I think 274 was a winning total, weather permitting, but unfortunately it wasn’t to be. Overall we played some outstanding cricket.

“Mistakes were made but that’s part of the game and you have to learn from them. We are a young unit and I am sure they will learn quickly going forward.

“That no-ball to Joe Root was our mistake. We could have won the game if it wasn’t a no-ball, but we have to take that.”

England captain Eoin Morgan: “I thought today was a scrappy game. We had the better of the conditions and it turned more in the Sri Lanka innings than when we batted. Sri Lanka posted a competitive score but we felt the wicket got better.

“We could have been more disciplined in the areas we bowled. Credit to Sri Lanka. They fought back well and played our spinners well. They didn’t get too far away from us in the last 10 overs.

“We were trying to be cagey with the rain. We felt our two best bowlers were Adil and Moeen so I bowled them out as quickly as I could.

“The fact we have won the series doesn’t mean we won’t want to win the next game but it may be an opportunity to look at other guys as well.”

Sri Lanka Batting

Batsmen	R	B	4s	6s	SR
Niroshan Dickwella WKT lbw Moeen Ali	52	70	5	0	74.28
Sadeera Samarawickrama c Jos Buttler b Chris Woakes	1	7	0	0	14.28
Dinesh Chandimal CPT b Moeen Ali	33	47	2	0	70.21
Kusal Mendis lbw Adil Rashid	5	14	0	0	35.71
Dhananjaya de Silva c Jos Buttler b Tom Curran	17	28	2	0	60.71
Dasun Shanaka run out (Eoin Morgan/Chris Woakes)	66	66	4	5	100.00
Thisara Perera run out (Ben Stokes/Jos Buttler)	44	41	2	1	107.31
Akila Dananjaya NOT OUT	32	26	2	1	123.07
Lasith Malinga NOT OUT	4	1	1	0	400.00
Amila Aponso	–	–	–	–	–
Kasun Rajitha	–	–	–	–	–
Extras (w 9, lb 10)	19
Total (7 wickets, 50 overs)	273

Fall of wickets
1-19 (S Samarawickrama, 4.2 ov), 2-89 (D Chandimal, 18.5 ov), 3-102 (N Dickwella, 22.5 ov), 4-102 (K Mendis, 23.1 ov), 5-154 (D de Silva, 34.2 ov), 6-212 (D Shanaka, 42.1 ov), 7-268 (NTLC Perera, 49.5 ov)

Bowlers	O	M	R	W	Econ	Dots
Chris Woakes	10	0	45	1	4.50	34
Olly Stone	7	0	50	0	7.14	22
Tom Curran	9	1	50	1	5.55	22
Moeen Ali	10	0	55	2	5.50	22
Adil Rashid	10	0	36	1	3.60	38
Ben Stokes	4	0	27	0	6.75	11

Batsmen	R	B	4s	6s	SR
Jason Roy lbw Akila Dananjaya	45	49	5	1	91.83
Alex Hales st Niroshan Dickwella b Akila Dananjaya	12	23	2	0	52.17
Joe Root NOT OUT	32	57	0	0	56.14
Eoin Morgan CPT NOT OUT	31	34	3	1	91.17
Ben Stokes	–	–	–	–	–
Jos Buttler WKT	–	–	–	–	–
Moeen Ali	–	–	–	–	–
Chris Woakes	–	–	–	–	–
Adil Rashid	–	–	–	–	–
Tom Curran	–	–	–	–	–
Olly Stone	–	–	–	–	–
Extras (nb 1, w 3, b 8)	12
Total (2 wickets, 27 overs)	132

Fall of wickets
1-52 (A Hales, 9.1 ov), 2-76 (J Roy, 15.4 ov)

Bowlers	O	R	W	Econ	Dots
Lasith Malinga	5	15	0	3.00	22
Amila Aponso	6	37	0	6.16	16
Kasun Rajitha	5	27	0	5.40	15
Akila Dananjaya	7	27	2	3.85	23
Dhananjaya de Silva	4	18	0	4.50	10

England, aided by DLS, takes rain hampered ODI series in Sri Lanka

‘I thought 274 was a winning total’

Sri Lanka Batting

England Bowling

England Batting

Sri Lanka Bowling

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