As the current champion, the England cricket team is competing one by one. The English lost again, after being defeated against New Zealand, Afghanistan, and South Africa. At the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore today, England faced an extreme batting disaster after winning the toss and choosing to bat against Sri Lanka. They lost by eight wickets and were all out for 156 runs when they batted first. In 25.4 overs, the Lankans prevailed.
The Bengaluru wicket is quite batting-friendly. That’s why Jos Buttler decided to bat without thinking back and forth after winning the coin toss after going down to toss with Sri Lanka’s acting captain Kushal Mendis.
When they came to bat, the two openers, Dawid Malan and Jonny Bairstow, got off to a strong start. They scored two 45 runs. After hitting 28 runs off 25 balls, Dawid Malan was out.
Following that, the English started to lose wickets consistently. Joe Root’s bad luck. With just three runs scored, he was run out. With the team’s 77 runs, Jonny Bairstow was also removed from the game. In 31 balls, he scored 30 runs. The English batting team had a batting disaster when Jos Buttler was out for eight runs and Liam Livingstone was out for one run.
Ben Stokes was still attempting to hold one end. However, he was dismissed after reaching 43 runs on 73 balls. Despite the fact that it was the English side’s best run. Moeen Ali amassed fifteen runs. Adil Rashid went out for two runs, Mark Wood for five, and Chris Woakes for zero runs meant that England was all out. After 14 runs, David Willey was still undefeated.
Veteran cricketer Angelo Mathews bowled brilliantly. He took 2 wickets with only 14 runs in 5 overs. Lahiru Kumara took the maximum of 3 wickets with 35 runs. Besides, Kasun Rajitha took 2 wickets.
The run chase started off badly for Sri Lanka. By nine runs, they lost Kushal Perera’s wicket. Eleven more runs were added to the total before Kushal Mendis left. David Willey returned both of them.
Then Sri Lanka crossed the target with the uninterrupted partnership of Pathum Nissanka and Sadeera Samarawickrama. Both Pathum and Sadeera crossed the half-century mark. In the end, Pathum scored 77 from 83 balls and Sadeera scored 65 from 54 balls. Among them, Pathum’s innings had 7 fours and 2 sixes. Besides, Sadeera’s innings were decorated with 7 fours and a six.
England – 156/10 (33.2)
Sri Lanka – 160/2 (25.4)
Result – Sri Lanka won by 8 wickets
Player of the match – Lahiru Kumara
Sri Lanka
England | Jos Buttler (c & wk), Jonny Bairstow, Joe Root, Liam Livingstone, Chris Woakes, Moeen Ali, David Willey, Ben Stokes, Adil Rashid, Dawid Malan, Mark Wood |
Sri Lanka | Kusal Mendis (c & wk), Pathum Nissanka, Charith Asalanka, Angelo Mathews, Maheesh Theekshana, Dhananjaya de Silva, Kasun Rajitha, Sadeera Samarawickrama, Lahiru Kumara, Kusal Perera, Dilshan Madushanka |
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