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Match Date : March 09, 1996
Venue : Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad
Toss : England won the toss and elected to bat
Umpires : Mahboob Shah and Ian Robinson
Match Result : Sri Lanka won by 5 wickets
Man of the Match : Sanath Jayasuriya
England (50 Overs Maximum)
Robin Smith run out 25 (41) 3 ‘4s’
Michael Atherton (C) c Kaluwitharana b Chaminda Vaas 22 (27) 2 ‘4s’
Graeme Hick c Ranatunga b Muralitharan 8 (21)
Graham Thorpe b Kumar Dharmasena 14 (31) 1 ‘4s’
Phil DeFreitas lbw b Sanath Jayasuriya 67 (64) 5 ‘4s’ 2 ‘6s’
Alec Stewart b Muralitharan 17 (38)
Jack Russell (WK) b Kumar Dharmasena 9 (17)
Dermot Reeve b Sanath Jayasuriya 35 (34) 2 ‘4s’
Darren Gough not out 26 (26) 5 ‘4s’
Peter Martin not out 0 (1)
Richard Illingworth
Extras : 12 (Wides: 4 No Balls: 0 Byes: 0 Leg Byes: 8)
Total : 235/8 (Overs: 50.0)
Fall of Wickets : 1-31 (Atherton), 2-58 (Hick), 3-66 (Smith), 4-94 (Thorpe), 5-145 (Stewart), 6-171 (Russell), 7-173 (DeFreitas), 8-235 (Reeve)
Sri Lanka Bowling
Pramodya Wickramasinghe 7-0-43-0 (1wd)
Chaminda Vaas 8-1-29-1 (1wd)
Muttiah Muralitharan 10-1-37-2 (1wd)
Kumar Dharmasena 10-0-30-2
Sanath Jayasuriya 9-0-46-2
Aravinda de Silva 6-0-42-0 (1wd)
Sri Lanka (Target : 236 from 50 Overs)
Sanath Jayasuriya st Russell b Dermott Reeve 82 (44) 13 ‘4s’ 3 ‘6s’
Romesh Kaluwitharana (WK) b Richard Illingworth 8 (3) 2 ‘4s’
Asanka Gurusinha run out 45 (63) 5 ‘4s’
Aravinda de Silva c Smith b Graeme Hick 31 (30) 5 ‘4s’
Arjuna Ranatunga (C) lbw b Darren Gough 25 (17) 5 ‘4s’
Hashan Tillakaratne not out 19 (50) 1 ‘4s’
Roshan Mahanama not out 22 (38) 2 ‘4s’
Kumar Dharmasena
Chaminda Vaas
Pramodya Wickramasinghe
Muttiah Muralitharan
Extras : 4 (Wides : 2 No Balls: 1 Byes: 0 Leg Byes: 1)
Total : 236/5 (Overs : 40.4)
Fall of Wickets : 1-12 (Kaluwitharana), 2-113 (Jayasuriya), 3-165 (Aravinda de Silva), 4-194 (Ranatunga), 5-198 (Gurusinha)
England Bowling
Peter Martin 9-1-41-0 (2wd)
Richard Illingworth 10-1-72-1
Darren Gough 10-1-36-1
Phil DeFreitas 3.4-0-38-0
Dermot Reeve 4-1-14-1 (1nb)
Graeme Hick 4-0-34-1