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Match Date : April 04, 2007
Venue : Sir Viv Richards Stadium, North Sound, Antigua
Toss : England won the toss and elected to bat first
Umpires : Asad Rauf (Pak) and Billy Bowden (NZ)
Match Result : Sri Lanka won by 2 runs
Man of the Match : Ravi Bopara
Match Report : Dilhara bowls SL to a two-run despite Bopara’s fight
Sri Lanka (50 Overs Maximum)
Upul Tharanga c Pietersen b Flintoff 62 (103) 2 ‘4s’
Sanath Jayasuriya b Mahmood 25 (26) 4 ‘4s’ 1 ‘6s’
Kumar Sangakkara (WK) c Collingwood b Mahmood 17 (33) 2 ‘4s’
Mahela Jayawardene (C) c Joyce b Collingwood 56 (61) 4 ‘4s’
Chamara Silva b Flintoff 24 (37) 2 ‘4s’
Tillakaratne Dilshan run out (Bell) 5 (6)
Russel Arnold c Joyce b Mahmood 20 (22) 1 ‘4s’
Chaminda Vaas c Collingwood b Flintoff 4 (5)
Lasith Malinga c Nixon b Mahmood 2 (7)
Muttiah Muralitharan not out 2 (2)
Dilhara Fernando run out (Nixon/Pietersen) 2 (2)
Extras : 16 (Wides : 4 No Balls: 4 Byes: 3 Leg Byes: 5)
Total : 235 all out (Overs : 50.0)
Fall of Wickets : 1-37 (Jayasuriya, 7.6 ovs), 2-69 (Sangakkara, 18.1 ovs), 3-160 (Tharanga, 34.5 ovs), 4-175 (Jayawardene, 38.4 ovs), 5-193 (Dilshan, 42.1 ovs), 6-215 (Silva, 46.1 ovs), 7-219 (Vaas, 46.6 ovs), 8-226 (Malinga, 49.1 ovs), 9-231 (Arnold, 49.4 ovs), 10-235 (Fernando, 49.6 ovs)
England Bowling
Anderson 10-1-39-0
Mahmood 9-0-50-4 (1wd 3nb)
Flintoff 10-0-35-3 (1nb)
Collingwood 10-0-44-1 (1wd)
Panesar 8-0-45-0
Vaughan 3-0-14-0
England (Target : 236 from 50 Overs)
Ed Joyce lbw b Malinga 10 (21) 1 ‘4s’
Michael Vaughan (C) c Sangakkara b Vaas 0 (3)
Ian Bell run out (Jayasuriya) 47 (71) 4 ‘4s’
Kevin Pietersen c&b Muralitharan 58 (80) 5 ‘4s’ 1 ‘6s’
Paul Collingwood lbw b Fernando 14 (20) 2 ‘4s’
Andrew Flintoff c Malinga b Fernando 2 (7)
Ravinder Bopara b Fernando 52 (53) 4 ‘4s’
Paul Nixon (WK) c Jayawardene b Malinga 42 (44) 2 ‘4s’ 1 ‘6s’
Sajid Mahmood not out 2 (2)
James Anderson
Monty Panesar
Extras : 6 (Wides : 2 No Balls: 2 Byes: 1 Leg Byes: 1)
Total : 233/8 (Overs : 50.0)
Fall of Wickets : 1-1 (Vaughan, 2.2 ovs), 2-11 (Joyce, 5.2 ovs), 3-101 (Bell, 25.2 ovs), 4-126 (Pietersen, 30.5 ovs), 5-133 (Flintoff, 33.1 ovs), 6-133 (Collingwood, 33.3 ovs), 7-220 (Nixon, 48.5 ovs), 8-233 (Bopara, 49.6 ovs)
Sri Lanka Bowling
Vaas 8-1-45-1
Malinga 10-1-50-2 (2nb)
Fernando 9-0-41-3
Jayasuriya 8-0-31-0
Dilshan 5-1-16-0 (1wd)
Muralitharan 10-1-48-1 (1wd)