Sri Lanka loosed
the match with England by 5 wickets. Sri Lanka 242 runs for 8
wickets and England 236 runs for 5 wickets. Sri Lanka site
Sangakkara 63 runs, Thirimanne 62 runs not out and Woakes take 3 wickets for 41
runs and England site Moeen 58 runs, Buttler 55 runs not out and Root 48
runs not out.
England have earned
themselves a lifeline within the ODI series against Sri Lanka - and gained some
encouragement prior the ICC World Cup - with a trying five-wicket success in
Hambantota with eight balls to spare.
It was not only that England team
claimed a much-needed success that sees the series balanced at 2-1 to Sri Lanka
with four games to play. It absolutely was that the architects of the success
were the younger, a smaller amount intimate players who showed the talent and
calm that their senior colleagues have thus clearly lacked.
If Associate in Nursing explosive time
period from Moeen- Who with 5 sixes equaled his personal record for the leading
by Associate in Nursing England opener in Associate in Nursing ODI innings -
set the stage for the England follow, the unbroken 6th-wicket
partnership of eighty four in sixty four balls between Joe Root and Jos Buttler
was nearly as spectacular.
