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Match Date : May 14, 1999
Venue : Lord’s, London
Toss : England won the toss and elected to field
Umpires : Rudi Koertzen and S Venkataraghavan
Match Result : England won by 8 wickets
Man of the Match : Alec Stewart
Sri Lanka (50 Overs Maximum)
Sanath Jayasuriya c Hick b Allan Mullally 29 (52) 4 ‘4s’
Roshan Mahanama c Hick b Allan Mullally 16 (30) 2 ‘4s’
Marvan Atapattu c Thorpe b Ian Austin 3 (9)
Hashan Tillakaratne c Stewart b Mark Ealham 0 (12)
Aravinda de Silva c Thorpe b Allan Mullally 0 (6)
Arjuna Ranatunga (C) c Hussain b Mark Ealham 32 (42) 1 ‘4s’ 1 ‘6s’
Romesh Kaluwitharana (WK) c Stewart b Allan Mullally 57 (66) 7 ‘4s’
Chaminda Vaas not out 12 (27)
Eric Upashantha c Thorpe b Adam Hollioake 11 (25) 1 ‘4s’
Pramodya Wickramasinghe c Stewart b Ian Austin 11 (18) 1 ‘4s’
Muttiah Muralitharan b Darren Gough 12 (8) 2 ‘4s’
Extras : 21 (Wides: 9 No Balls: 3 Byes: 0 Leg Byes: 9)
Total : 204 all out (Overs: 48.4)
Fall of Wickets : 1-42 (Mahanama, 10.6 ovs), 2-50 (Atapattu, 13.2 ovs), 3-63 (Jayasuriya, 16.5 ovs), 4-63 (Tillakaratne, 17.1 ovs), 5-65 (de Silva, 18.5 ovs), 6-149 (Ranatunga, 33.6 ovs), 7-155 (Kaluwitharana, 36.5 ovs), 8-174 (Upashantha, 43.5 ovs), 9-190 (Wickramasinghe, 47.2 ovs), 10-204 (Muralitharan, 48.4 ovs)
England Bowling
Darren Gough 8.4-0-50-1 (1wd 2nb)
Ian Austin 9-1-25-2 (5wd)
Allan Mullally 10-1-37-4 (1wd 1nb)
Mark Ealham 10-0-31-2
Andrew Flintoff 2-0-12-0
Graeme Hick 3-0-19-0 (1wd)
Adam Hollioake 6-0-21-1
England (Target : 205 from 50 Overs)
Nasser Hussain st Kaluwitharana b Muralitharan 14 (33) 1 ‘4s’
Alec Stewart (C, WK) c Kaluwitharana b Chaminda Vaas 88 (182) 6 ‘4s’
Graeme Hick not out 73 (88) 2 ‘4s’ 2 ‘6s’
Graham Thorpe not out 13 (15) 1 ‘4s’
Neil Fairbrother
Andrew Flintoff
Adam Hollioake
Mark Ealham
Ian Austin
Darren Gough
Alan Mullaly
Extras : 19 (Wides: 12 No Balls: 1 Byes: 0 Leg Byes: 6)
Total : 207/2 (Overs: 46.5)
Fall of Wickets : 1-50 (Hussain, 14.5 ovs), 2-175 (Stewart, 41.3 ovs)
Sri Lanka Bowling
Chaminda Vaas 10-2-27-1
Pramodya Wickramasinghe 10-0-41-0
Eric Upashantha 8-0-38-0 (8wd 1nb)
Muttiah Muralitharan 10-0-33-1 (2wd)
Sanath Jayasuriya 7.5-0-55-0 (2wd)
Aravinda de Silva 1-0-7-0