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Tour match called off after Thirimanne & Jayasuriya’s heroics

England tour of Sri Lanka 2020

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The 4-day warm-up match between the touring English outfit and Sri Lanka Board President’s XI at the P. Sara Stadium, Colombo, was called off abruptly in the evening session after it was decided to postpone the forthcoming Test series due to COVID-19 pandemic.

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England resumed their innings on day 02, at 354/3 after their dominating day 01 batting display thanks to a century by Zak Crawley and a brilliant unbeaten partnership between skipper Joe Root and Ollie Pope for the 4th wicket.

Overnight batsmen, Root reached his century in no time and the partnership (190 runs) was broken with the Root’s wicket who was on 102. Pope also had to depart after an exceptional inning of 95 as the left-arm spinner Pabath Jayasuriya ran through England batting line-up on day 02 morning bagging 6 wickets. 

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Jayasuriya restricted England innings to 463, which otherwise showed the signs of a much larger score.

In reply, Sri Lanka BP XI opener Pathum Nissanka was out on a first-ball duck and another youngster Sadeera Samarawickarama soon followed Nissanka to the dressing room for just 4 runs.

The only batsman to succeed for the home team was the skipper Lahiru Thirimanne who notched up an attacking 87 runs at a healthy 77.0 Strike rate before the game was called off.

Sri Lanka innings had to be ended at 149/3 as the game was concluded as a No result.

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Stumps


Sri Lanka Board President’s XI
150/3 (40)

England
463/10 (117.4)

Batsmen R B 4s 6s SR
Zak Crawley b Mohamed Shiraz 105 145 11 0 72.41
Dominic Sibley c Sadeera Samarawickrama b Ramesh Mendis 37 92 5 0 40.22
Joe Denly c Minod Bhanuka b Prabath Jayasuriya 26 61 2 1 42.62
Joe Root lbw b Prabath Jayasuriya 102 139 9 0 73.38
Ollie Pope b Prabath Jayasuriya 95 134 8 0 70.90
Jos Buttler b Prabath Jayasuriya 14 29 1 0 48.28
Sam Curran c Prabath Jayasuriya b Mohamed Shiraz 9 13 1 0 69.23
Chris Woakes c Shehan Jayasuriya b Prabath Jayasuriya 12 15 1 1 80.00
Dominic Bess b Asitha Fernando 11 14 2 0 78.57
Jack Leach not out 14 28 1 1 50.00
Matthew Parkinson c Sadeera Samarawickrama b Prabath Jayasuriya 22 36 3 0 61.11


Extras 16 (b 4 , lb 11 , nb 0, w 1, pen 0)
Total 463/10 (117.4 Overs, RR: 3.93)
Fall of Wickets 1-103 (25.6) Dominic Sibley, 2-175 (49.3) Joe Denly, 3-179 (50.1) Zak Crawley, 4-369 (93.4) Joe Root, 5-388 (97.4) Ollie Pope, 6-399 (100.5) Sam Curran, 7-404 (103.1) Jos Buttler, 8-421 (106.2) Dominic Bess, 9-429 (107.4) Chris Woakes, 10-463 (117.4) Matthew Parkinson,

Bowling O M R W Econ
Asitha Fernando 20 2 63 1 3.15
Mohamed Shiraz 18 0 68 2 3.78
Prabath Jayasuriya 37.4 3 164 6 4.39
Ramesh Mendis 31 0 106 1 3.42
Shehan Jayasuriya 9 0 36 0 4.00
Angelo Perera 2 0 11 0 5.50


Batsmen R B 4s 6s SR
Pathum Nissanka lbw b Chris Woakes 0 1 0 0 0.00
Lahiru Thirimanne not out 88 115 12 0 76.52
Sadeera Samarawickrama c & b Chris Woakes 4 14 0 0 28.57
Angelo Perera b Matthew Parkinson 38 53 7 0 71.70
Roshen Silva not out 11 58 1 0 18.97


Extras 9 (b 4 , lb 4 , nb 1, w 0, pen 0)
Total 150/3 (40 Overs, RR: 3.75)
Fall of Wickets 1-0 (0.1) Pathum Nissanka, 2-12 (4.5) Sadeera Samarawickrama, 3-95 (23.1) Angelo Perera,

Bowling O M R W Econ
Chris Woakes 6 1 11 2 1.83
Sam Curran 6 0 36 0 6.00
Jack Leach 12 1 44 0 3.67
Dominic Bess 9 1 32 0 3.56
Matthew Parkinson 7 2 19 1 2.71