Match Details
Toss
Sri Lanka , elected to field first
Player Of The Match
Series result
Sri Lanka won the one-off match
Match number
Season
Match days
27,28,29,30,31 August 1998 (5-day match)
27/08Result
Only Test, Sri Lanka tour of England at London, Aug 27-31 1998
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445 & 181 -
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591 & 37/0 (5 ov)
Player of the Match
27/08Result
Only Test, Sri Lanka tour of England at London, Aug 27-31 1998
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445 & 181 -
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591 & 37/0 (5 ov)
Player of the Match
Match Centre
Scorecard Summary
ENGLAND 445 (158.3 OVERS)1ST INNINGS
- JP Crawley*156 (249)
- GA Hick107 (238)
- M Muralitharan7/155 (59.3)
- GP Wickramasinghe2/81 (30)
SRI LANKA 591 (156.5 OVERS)1ST INNINGS
- PA de Silva152 (292)
- ST Jayasuriya213 (278)
- ARC Fraser3/95 (23)
- D Gough2/102 (30)
ENGLAND 181 (129.2 OVERS)2ND INNINGS
- MR Ramprakash42 (220)
- AJ Stewart32 (145)
- HDPK Dharmasena0/12 (19.3)
- M Muralitharan9/65 (54.2)
SRI LANKA 37/0 (5 OVERS)2ND INNINGS
- MS Atapattu*9 (13)
- ST Jayasuriya*24 (17)
- DG Cork0/3 (2)
- ARC Fraser0/19 (2)
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