TestNo. 1423MenScorecard

England v Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka won by 10 wickets

27 to 31 August 1998The Oval

England

445 & 181129.2 ov

Sri Lankawon by 10 wickets

591 & 37/05 ov

Scorecard: every batter's and bowler's line, as the scorer kept it

Scorecard. For this match we hold every batter's and every bowler's line as the scorer's card kept it. The card does not name the fielder or the bowler for each dismissal, and older cards often leave balls faced blank (shown as -). There is no ball-by-ball record before December 2001. See the matches held ball by ball.

England innings

445158.3 ov

England batting
Batter	Dismissal	R	B	Mins	4s	6s	SR
Mark Butcher	caught	10	26	29	1	0	38.5
Steve James	caught	36	111	133	3	0	32.4
Graeme Hick	caught	107	238	347	14	0	45.0
Alec Stewart	caught	2	9	6	0	0	22.2
Mark Ramprakash	caught	53	149	175	4	0	35.6
John Crawley	not out	156*	249	318	19	1	62.7
Ben Hollioake	caught	14	53	88	1	0	26.4
Dominic Cork	bowled	6	48	74	0	0	12.5
Ian Salisbury	bowled	2	17	16	0	0	11.8
Darren Gough	caught	4	8	15	1	0	50.0
Angus Fraser	bowled	32	52	59	3	2	61.5
Extras	b 1, lb 11, w 2, nb 9	23
Total	all out, 158.3 overs	445

Fall of wicketsruns, 0 to 600

1-16 Mark Butcher2-78 Steve James3-81 Alec Stewart4-209 Mark Ramprakash5-230 Graeme Hick6-277 Ben Hollioake7-333 Dominic Cork8-343 Ian Salisbury9-356 Darren Gough10-445 Angus Fraser

Bowling to England
Bowler	O	M	R	W	Econ	Wd	Nb
Pramodya Wickramasinghe	30	4	81	2	2.70	2	1
Suresh Perera	40	10	104	1	2.60	0	0
Kumar Dharmasena	18	3	55	0	3.06	0	0
Muthiah Muralidaran	59.3	14	155	7	2.61	0	8
Sanath Jayasuriya	11	0	38	0	3.45	0	0

Sri Lanka innings

591156.5 ov

Sri Lanka batting
Batter	Dismissal	R	B	Mins	4s	6s	SR
Sanath Jayasuriya	caught	213	278	346	33	1	76.6
Marvan Atapattu	lbw	15	26	55	1	0	57.7
Mahela Jayawardene	caught	9	40	56	0	0	22.5
Aravinda de Silva	caught	152	292	461	17	0	52.1
Arjuna Ranatunga	lbw	51	99	138	7	1	51.5
Hashan Tillakaratne	lbw	0	1	1	0	0	0.0
Romesh Kaluwitharana	caught	25	50	57	2	0	50.0
Kumar Dharmasena	lbw	13	39	61	2	0	33.3
Suresh Perera	not out	43*	77	104	6	1	55.8
Pramodya Wickramasinghe	bowled	0	7	11	0	0	0.0
Muthiah Muralidaran	caught	30	36	55	5	0	83.3
Extras	b 15, lb 20, w 1, nb 4	40
Total	all out, 156.5 overs	591

Fall of wicketsruns, 0 to 600

1-53 Marvan Atapattu2-85 Mahela Jayawardene3-328 Sanath Jayasuriya4-450 Arjuna Ranatunga5-450 Hashan Tillakaratne6-488 Romesh Kaluwitharana7-504 Aravinda de Silva8-526 Kumar Dharmasena9-532 Pramodya Wickramasinghe10-591 Muthiah Muralidaran

Bowling to Sri Lanka
Bowler	O	M	R	W	Econ	Wd	Nb
Darren Gough	30	5	102	2	3.40	0	0
Angus Fraser	23	3	95	3	4.13	0	0
Ben Hollioake	26	2	105	2	4.04	1	1
Dominic Cork	36	5	128	2	3.56	0	3
Ian Salisbury	25.5	7	86	1	3.33	0	0
Mark Ramprakash	5	0	24	0	4.80	0	0
Mark Butcher	11	2	16	0	1.45	0	0

England innings

181129.2 ov

England batting
Batter	Dismissal	R	B	Mins	4s	6s	SR
Mark Butcher	stumped	15	45	53	3	0	33.3
Steve James	caught	25	150	185	1	0	16.7
Graeme Hick	lbw	0	2	4	0	0	0.0
Alec Stewart	run out	32	145	149	1	0	22.1
Mark Ramprakash	caught	42	220	246	3	0	19.1
John Crawley	bowled	14	59	53	2	0	23.7
Ben Hollioake	lbw	0	1	1	0	0	0.0
Dominic Cork	caught	8	23	22	2	0	34.8
Ian Salisbury	lbw	0	4	2	0	0	0.0
Darren Gough	bowled	15	133	145	2	0	11.3
Angus Fraser	not out	0*	6	5	0	0	0.0
Extras	b 7, lb 8, w 1, nb 14	30
Total	all out, 129.2 overs	181

Fall of wicketsruns, 0 to 600

1-25 Mark Butcher2-25 Graeme Hick3-78 Steve James4-93 Alec Stewart5-116 John Crawley6-116 Ben Hollioake7-127 Dominic Cork8-127 Ian Salisbury9-180 Mark Ramprakash10-181 Darren Gough

Bowling to England
Bowler	O	M	R	W	Econ	Wd	Nb
Pramodya Wickramasinghe	4	0	16	0	4.00	0	0
Suresh Perera	11	2	22	0	2.00	1	0
Muthiah Muralidaran	54.2	27	65	9	1.20	0	12
Kumar Dharmasena	19.3	13	12	0	0.62	0	0
Sanath Jayasuriya	28	14	30	0	1.07	0	0
Aravinda de Silva	10.3	3	16	0	1.52	0	0
Mahela Jayawardene	2	0	5	0	2.50	0	0

Sri Lanka innings chasing 36

37/05 ov

Sri Lanka batting
Batter	Dismissal	R	B	Mins	4s	6s	SR
Sanath Jayasuriya	not out	24*	17	22	2	2	141.2
Marvan Atapattu	not out	9*	13	22	1	0	69.2
Extras	lb 4	4
Total	0 wickets, 5 overs	37

Bowling to Sri Lanka
Bowler	O	R	Econ
Angus Fraser	2	19	9.50
Dominic Cork	2	3	1.50
Ben Hollioake	1	11	11.00

Tests in August 1998

2 matches

TestScorecardEngland230 & 240110.2South Africa252 & 19575England won by 23 runsLeeds, 6 August TestScorecardEngland445 & 181129.2Sri Lanka591 & 37/05Sri Lanka won by 10 wicketsThe Oval, 27 August

Match facts

Format: Test No. 1423
Dates: 27 to 31 August 1998
Ground: The Oval
Result: Sri Lanka won by 10 wickets
In the database: Scorecard

GET/v1/matches/1998-08-27-england-v-sri-lanka/scorecard200

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  "balls_per_over": 6,
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    "batting": [{"player": "John Crawley", "dismissal": "not out",
      "runs": 156, "balls": 249, "minutes": 318, ...}, ...],
    "bowling": [{"player": "Pramodya Wickramasinghe", "overs": "30", "wickets": 2, ...}, ...]
  }, ...]
}

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