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England vs Sri Lanka Scorecard, ICC Cricket World Cup, 9 March, 1996, Iqbal Stadium & Match Stats

Wills World Cup | March 9, 1996, 07:30 PM | Iqbal Stadium

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Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka

*236/5 (40.4 ov)

vs
England

*235/8 (50.0 ov)

England

Sri Lanka won by 5 wickets

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Player of the Match

Sanath Jayasuriya - Sri Lanka

England Inning Inning

235/8 (50.0 ov)
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Batter R B 4s 6s SR
Robin Smith
run out
25 41 3 0 60.98
Mike Atherton
c †Kaluwitharana b Vaas
22 27 2 0 81.48
Graeme Hick
c Ranatunga b Muralitharan
8 21 0 0 38.10
Graham Thorpe
b Dharmasena
14 31 1 0 45.16
Phil DeFreitas
lbw b Jayasuriya
67 64 5 2 104.69
Alec Stewart
b Muralitharan
17 38 0 0 44.74
Jack Russell
b Dharmasena
9 17 0 0 52.94
Dermot Reeve
b Jayasuriya
35 34 2 0 102.94
Darren Gough
not out
26 26 5 0 100.00
Peter Martin
not out
0 1 0 0 0.00
EXTRAS ( b 0, lb 8, w 4, nb 0, p 0) 12
TOTAL (4.70 RUNS PER OVER) 235/8 (50.0 ov)

FALL OF WICKETS

66-3 (Robin Smith, 0 ov), 31-1 (Mike Atherton, 0 ov), 58-2 (Graeme Hick, 0 ov), 94-4 (Graham Thorpe, 0 ov), 173-7 (Phil DeFreitas, 0 ov), 145-5 (Alec Stewart, 0 ov), 171-6 (Jack Russell, 0 ov), 235-8 (Dermot Reeve, 0 ov)

DID NOT BAT

Richard Illingworth

Bowling Stats

Bowler O M R W Dots NB WD ECO
Pramodya Wickramasinghe 7 0 43 0 0 0 0 6.14
Chaminda Vaas 8 1 29 1 0 0 0 3.63
Muttiah Muralitharan 10 1 37 2 0 0 0 3.70
Kumar Dharmasena 10 0 30 2 0 0 0 3.00
Sanath Jayasuriya 9 0 46 2 0 0 0 5.11
Aravinda de Silva 6 0 42 0 0 0 0 7.00

Sri Lanka (target 236 runs off 50.0 overs) Inning Inning

236/5 (40.4 ov)
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Match Information

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DATE & TIME

Saturday, March 09, 1996 - 07:30 PM

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Toss England won the toss and elected to bat

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Iqbal Stadium , Faisalabad

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