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Match Date : October 17, 1987
Venue : Arbab Niaz Stadium, Peshawar
Toss : England won the toss and elected to bat first
Umpires : RB Gupta and VK Ramaswamy
Match Result : England won by 109 runs (Revised Target)
Man of the Match : Allan Lamb
England (50 Overs Maximum)
Graham Gooch c&b Anurasiri 84 (100) 8 ‘4s’
Chris Broad c de Silva b Ratnayeke 28 (60) 1 ‘4s’
Mike Gatting (C) b Ratnayake 58 (63) 3 ‘4s’
Allan Lamb c de Silva b Ratnayeke 76 (58) 3 ‘4s’ 2 ‘6s’
John Emburey not out 30 (19) 3 ‘4s’ 1 ‘6s’
Bill Athey not out 2 (2)
Paul Downton (WK)
Phil DeFreitas
Derek Pringle
Gladstone Small
Eddie Hemmings
Extras : 18 (Wides: 5 No Balls: 0 Byes: 0 Leg Byes: 13)
Total : 296/4 (Overs: 50.0)
Fall of Wickets : 1-89 (Broad), 2-142 (Gooch), 3-218 (Gatting), 4-287 (Lamb)
Sri Lanka Bowling
Ratnayeke 9-0-62-2
John 10-0-44-0
de Silva 7-0-33-0
Ratnayake 10-0-60-1
Anurasiri 8-0-44-1
Ranatunga 6-0-40-0
Sri Lanka (Target : 267 from 45 Overs)
Roshan Mahanama c Gooch b Pringle 11 (39) 2 ‘4s’
DSBP Kuruppu (WK) c Hemmings b Emburey 13 (26) 1 ‘4s’
Asanka Gurusinha run out 1 (12)
Ranjan Madugalle b Hemmings 30 (49) 3 ‘4s’
Arjuna Ranatunga lbw b DeFreitas 40 (67) 4 ‘4s’
Duleep Mendis (C) run out 14 (33) 1 ‘4s’
Aravinda de Silva c Emburey b Hemmings 6 (14)
Ravi Ratnayeke c Broad b Emburey 1 (5)
Rumesh Ratnayake not out 14 (22) 1 ‘4s’
Vinothen John not out 8 (7) 1 ‘4s’
Don Anurasiri
Extras : 20 (Wides : 6 No Balls: 3 Byes: 2 Leg Byes: 9)
Total : 158/8 (Overs : 45.0)
Fall of Wickets : 1-31 (Mahanama), 2-32 (Gurusinha), 3-37 (Kuruppu), 4-99 (Madugalle), 5-105 (Ranatunga), 6-113 (de Silva), 7-119 (Ratnayeke), 8-137 (Mendis)
England Bowling
DeFreitas 9-2-24-1
Small 7-0-27-0
Pringle 4-0-11-1
Emburey 10-1-26-2
Hemmings 10-1-31-2
Gooch 2-0-9-0
Athey 1-0-10-0
Broad 1-0-6-0
Lamb 1-0-3-0