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Test no. 1675

England in Sri Lanka Test Series - 3rd Test
Sri Lanka v England

2003/04 season

Played at Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo, on 18,19,20,21 December 2003 (5-day match)

Result Sri Lanka won by an innings and 215 runs


England 1st innings			R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	ME Trescothick	c Jayawardene b Muralitharan	70	119	98	13	0	71.42
	MP Vaughan	c Jayawardene b Chandana	18	77	51	2	0	35.29
	MA Butcher	c Sangakkara b Fernando	23	49	50	3	0	46.00
	N Hussain	lbw b Vaas	8	49	35	1	0	22.85
	GP Thorpe	lbw b Muralitharan	13	47	39	1	0	33.33
	A Flintoff	c & b Muralitharan	77	136	109	10	4	70.64
	GJ Batty	c Atapattu b Chandana	14	98	101	1	0	13.86
	CMW Read	not out	17	107	64	0	1	26.56
	AF Giles	run out (Dilshan/Sangakkara)	10	43	39	1	0	25.64
	RJ Kirtley	lbw b Vaas	1	10	9	0	0	11.11
	JM Anderson	lbw b Vaas	1	18	12	0	0	8.33
	Extras	(b 4, lb 8, nb 1)	13

	Total	(all out; 101 overs; 380 mins)	265	(2.62 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-78 (Vaughan, 18.6 ov), 2-108 (Trescothick, 31.6 ov), 3-114 (Butcher, 34.1 ov), 4-135 (Hussain, 44.3 ov), 5-139 (Thorpe, 45.5 ov), 6-226 (Batty, 76.5 ov), 7-236 (Flintoff, 83.3 ov), 8-258 (Giles, 93.4 ov), 9-259 (Kirtley, 96.1 ov), 10-265 (Anderson, 100.6 ov)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
WPUJC Vaas	17	5	64	3	3.76
CRD Fernando	12	3	55	1	4.58	(1nb)
TT Samaraweera	4	1	11	0	2.75
UDU Chandana	26	7	82	2	3.15
M Muralitharan	40	21	40	3	1.00
ST Jayasuriya	2	1	1	0	0.50


Sri Lanka 1st innings			R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	KC Sangakkara	c Trescothick b Kirtley	31	59	42	6	0	73.80
	ST Jayasuriya	c Trescothick b Flintoff	85	169	104	12	1	81.73
	TT Samaraweera	run out (Read/Batty)	142	491	408	13	0	34.80
	DPMD Jayawardene	c sub (PD Collingwood) b Flintoff	134	351	246	14	1	54.47
	TM Dilshan	b Giles	83	185	131	3	0	63.35
	HP Tillakaratne	b Giles	12	36	40	1	0	30.00
	UDU Chandana	c Vaughan b Kirtley	76	141	103	7	2	73.78
	WPUJC Vaas	run out (Giles)	9	18	11	1	0	81.81
	M Muralitharan	not out	21	14	10	1	2	210.00
	CRD Fernando	not out	1	10	2	0	0	50.00
	Extras	(b 7, lb 16, w 5, nb 6)	34

	Total	(8 wickets dec; 182 overs; 747 mins)	628	(3.45 runs per over)

Did not bat MS Atapattu

Fall of wickets1-71 (Sangakkara, 11.6 ov), 2-138 (Jayasuriya, 38.1 ov), 3-400 (Jayawardene, 128.2 ov), 4-428 (Samaraweera, 136.1 ov), 5-456 (Tillakaratne, 147.6 ov), 6-582 (Dilshan, 175.5 ov), 7-605 (Vaas, 179.4 ov), 8-606 (Chandana, 180.1 ov)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
RJ Kirtley	31	4	131	2	4.22	(3nb)
JM Anderson	24	5	85	0	3.54
A Flintoff	18	0	47	2	2.61	(3nb)
AF Giles	65	16	190	2	2.92
GJ Batty	41	4	137	0	3.34
MP Vaughan	1	0	5	0	5.00
ME Trescothick	2	0	10	0	5.00	(1w)


England 2nd innings			R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	ME Trescothick	c sub (MG Vandort) b Vaas	0	3	6	0	0	0.00
	MP Vaughan	c Jayasuriya b Fernando	14	38	25	2	0	56.00
	MA Butcher	b Jayasuriya	37	149	119	6	0	31.09
	N Hussain	c Sangakkara b Muralitharan	11	35	33	2	0	33.33
	GP Thorpe	st Sangakkara b Muralitharan	19	64	60	2	0	31.66
	GJ Batty	st Sangakkara b Muralitharan	0	3	1	0	0	0.00
	A Flintoff	c Sangakkara b Fernando	30	89	75	6	0	40.00
	CMW Read	lbw b Jayasuriya	0	8	9	0	0	0.00
	AF Giles	b Fernando	13	52	48	1	0	27.08
	RJ Kirtley	b Muralitharan	12	34	25	0	1	48.00
	JM Anderson	not out	1	18	7	0	0	14.28
	Extras	(b 2, lb 8, nb 1)	11

	Total	(all out; 68 overs; 251 mins)	148	(2.17 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-0 (Trescothick, 0.6 ov), 2-22 (Vaughan, 7.4 ov), 3-44 (Hussain, 17.6 ov), 4-82 (Thorpe, 37.5 ov), 5-82 (Batty, 37.6 ov), 6-84 (Butcher, 42.3 ov), 7-84 (Read, 44.6 ov), 8-124 (Giles, 60.4 ov), 9-137 (Flintoff, 64.2 ov), 10-148 (Kirtley, 67.6 ov)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
WPUJC Vaas	7	2	25	1	3.57
CRD Fernando	12	4	27	3	2.25	(1nb)
UDU Chandana	13	7	18	0	1.38
M Muralitharan	27	9	63	4	2.33
ST Jayasuriya	9	6	5	2	0.55

Toss England, who chose to bat first
Series Sri Lanka won the 3-match series 1-0

Player of the match TT Samaraweera (Sri Lanka)
Player of the series M Muralitharan (Sri Lanka)

Umpires Aleem Dar (Pakistan) and SA Bucknor (West Indies)
TV umpire TH Wijewardene
Match referee CH Lloyd (West Indies)

Close of play
18 Dec day 1 - England 1st innings 259/8 (CMW Read 13*, RJ Kirtley 1*, 95 ov)
19 Dec day 2 - Sri Lanka 1st innings 264/2 (TT Samaraweera 68*, DPMD Jayawardene 60*, 82 ov)
20 Dec day 3 - Sri Lanka 1st innings 563/5 (TM Dilshan 72*, UDU Chandana 54*, 172 ov)
21 Dec day 4 - England 2nd innings 148 (68 ov) - end of match

Match notes

Day 1
England 50 in 8.1 overs (MP Vaughan 10*, ME Trescothick 38*)
1st wicket partnership: Vaughan and Trescothick 50 runs in 8.1 overs, RR: 6.12
Trescothick 50 in 39 balls, 4x11
England 100 in 28.5 overs (Trescothick 70*, Butcher 10*)
Score at Lunch: England 108/2 in 32 overs (Butcher 18*)
England 150 in 50 overs (Batty 1*, Flintoff 10*)
Score at Tea: England 197/5 in 66 overs (Batty 13*, Flintoff 42*)
England 200 in 70.1 overs (Batty 14*, Flintoff 43*)
England 250 in 90.2 overs (Read 10*, Giles 5*)

Day 2
Sri Lanka 50 in 9.5 overs (Jayasuriya 27*, Sangakkara 27*)
ST Jayasuriya 50 in 69 balls 87 mins, (4x9)(6x1)
Score at Lunch: Sri Lanka 88/1 in 17 overs (Jayasuriya 53*, Samaraweera 1*)
Sri Lanka 100 in 24.1 overs (Jayasuriya 60*, Samaraweera 6*)
Sri Lanka 150 in 40.2 overs (Samaraweera 15*, Jayawardene 10*)
Score at Tea: Sri Lanka 161/2 in 42 overs (Samaraweera 21*, Jayawardene 14*)
Sri Lanka 200 in 61.1 overs (Samaraweera 45*, Jayawardene 27*)
TT Samaraweera 50 in 200 balls 172 mins, 4x4
DPMD Jayawardene 50 in 100 balls 139 mins, 4x5
Sri Lanka 250 in 75.5 overs (Samaraweera 63*, Jayawardene 51*)
Sri Lanka 1st innings: 1x5 ball over (45th over, Kirtley's 12th, called by umpire Aleem Dar)

Day 3
Sri Lanka 300 in 97.3 overs (Samaraweera 87*, Jayawardene 81*)
Score at Lunch: Sri Lanka 334/2 in 114 overs (Samaraweera 98*, Jayawardene 99*)
DPMD Jayawardene 100 in 207 balls 287 mins, (4x5)(6x1)
TT Samaraweera 100 in 345 balls 404 mins, 4x7
Sri Lanka 350 in 116.5 overs (Samaraweera 106*, Jayawardene 108*)
Sri Lanka 400 in 128.1 overs (Samaraweera 129*, Jayawardene 134*)
Score at Tea: Sri Lanka 444/4 in 143 overs (Dilshan 21*, Tillakaratne 8*)
Sri Lanka 450 in 146.1 overs (Dilshan 26*, Tillakaratne 9*)
TM Dilshan 50 in 90 balls 131 mins, 4x2
UDU Chandana 50 in 71 balls 91 mins, (4x6)(6x1)
Sri Lanka 550 in 160 overs (Dilshan 66*, Chandana 51*)

Day 4
Sri Lanka 600 in 171 overs (Vaas 9*, Chandana 73*)
Score at Lunch: England 39/2 in 15 overs
England 50 in 20.5 overs (Butcher 19*, Thorpe 7*)
Score at Tea: England 93/7 in 51 overs (Flintoff 2*, Giles 6*)
England 100 in 52.5 overs (Flintoff 6*, Giles 6*)
England 2nd innings: 1x5 ball over (48th over, Muralitharan's 19th)

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