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Match Date : October 30, 1987
Venue : Nehru Stadium, Pune
Toss : Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat first
Umpires : DM Archer and Khizer Hayat
Match Result : England won by 8 wickets
Man of the Match : Graham Gooch
Sri Lanka (50 Overs Maximum)
Roshan Mahanama c Emburey b DeFreitas 14 (28) 1 ‘4s’
Ravi Ratnayeke lbw b Small 7 (11) 1 ‘4s’
A Gurusinha (WK) run out 34 (63) 3 ‘4s’
Roy Dias st Downton b Hemmings 80 (105) 6 ‘4s’ 3 ‘6s’
Duleep Mendis (C) b DeFreitas 7 (26)
Ranjan Madugalle c sub (Jarvis) b Hemmings 22 (38) 1 ‘6s’
Aravinda de Silva not out 23 (18) 2 ‘4s’
Ashantha de Mel c Lamb b Hemmings 0 (2)
S Jeganathan not out 20 (15) 2 ‘4s’ 1 ‘6s’
Vinothen John
Don Anurasiri
Extras : 11 (Wides : 3 No Balls: 5 Byes: 0 Leg Byes: 3)
Total : 218/7 (Overs : 50.0)
Fall of Wickets : 1-23 (Ratnayeke), 2-25 (Mahanama), 3-113 (Gurusinha), 4-125 (Mendis), 5-170 (Dias), 6-177 (Madugalle), 7-180 (de Mel)
England Bowling
DeFreitas 10-2-46-2
Small 10-1-33-1
Foster 10-0-37-0
Emburey 10-1-42-0
Hemmings 10-0-57-3
England (Target : 219 from 50 Overs)
Graham Gooch c&b Jeganathan 61 (79) 7 ‘4s’
Tim Robinson b Jeganathan 55 (75) 7 ‘4s’
Bill Athey not out 40 (55)
Mike Gatting (C) not out 46 (40) 4 ‘4s’
Allan Lamb
Paul Downton (WK)
John Emburey
Phil DeFreitas
Neil Foster
Gladstone Small
Eddie Hemmings
Extras : 17 (Wides: 3 No Balls: 0 Byes: 1 Leg Byes: 13)
Total : 219/2 (Overs: 41.2)
Fall of Wickets : 1-123 (Robinson), 2-132 (Gooch)
Sri Lanka Bowling
Ratnayeke 8-1-37-0
John 6-2-19-0
de Mel 4.2-0-34-0
Jeganathan 10-0-45-2
Anurasiri 10-0-45-0
de Silva 3-0-25-0