5th ODI (D/N), England tour of Sri Lanka 2018, Eng v SL Cricket highlights today – fifth one day international from R.Premadasa Stadium, Khettarama, Colombo (Sri Lanka) Tuesday 23rd October 2018.
The first ODI got no result because of the wet outfield, Second ODI England won by 31 runs (D/L method), third ODI England won by 7 wickets (with 15 balls remaining) and the fourth ODI England won by 18 runs (D/L method). So now England has already won the series by winning three ODI’s out of five. Here are some player’s stats from the last three ODI’s. AU Rashid, SL Malinga and A Dananjaya all three of them took five wickets each of them.
EJG Morgan scored 195 runs, JE Root 136 and JJ Roy 110. From Sri Lanka batsmen N Dickwella scored 97, MD Shanaka 95 and NLTC Perera 88. Top three most runs are scored by India at this venue, 375/5, 363/5 and 332/5. The home team scored their highest total here 320/8. England highest scored at this ground is 298/8. Now the home team must win this match because of their reputation and England will also try their best to get one more victory because of their ODI Rankings.
Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat.
Sri Lanka team/playing XI
N Dickwella †, S Samarawickrama, LD Chandimal (c), BKG Mendis, DM de Silva, NLTC Perera, MD Shanaka, A Dananjaya, PVD Chameera, CAK Rajitha, PADLR Sandakan.
England team/playing XI
JJ Roy, AD Hales, JE Root, JC Buttler (c) †, BA Stokes, MM Ali, SM Curran, AU Rashid, LE Plunkett, TK Curran, MA Wood.
Match Timings: 09:00 GMT | 14:30 Local
Umpires – Aleem Dar, Ruchira Palliyaguruge
TV Umpires – Paul Reiffel
Match Referee – Sir Richie Richardson
Reserve Umpire – Raveendra Wimalasiri
Match number – ODI no. 4058
