Player of the Match
Player of the Match

Best performances - Batsmen

AD Hales
AD Hales
116(64) 11x4 - 6x6
Control %89%
  • Productive Shot
  • leg glance
  • 36 runs
  • 3x4 - 1x6
0 0 14 10 30 7 4 51
DPMD Jayawardene
DPMD Jayawardene
89(51) 11x4 - 3x6
Control %66%
  • Productive Shot
  • leg glance
  • 26 runs
  • 4x4 - 1x6
4 10 17 23 8 0 8 19

Best performances - Bowlers

KMDN Kulasekara
KMDN Kulasekara
O4
M1
R32
W4
Eco8.00
RHB
OFFLEG
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
CJ Jordan
CJ Jordan
O4
M0
R28
W2
Eco7.00
RHB
OFFLEG
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF

Partnerships

Sri Lanka - Innings

4
TM Dilshan1 (2)
MDKJ Perera3 (6)
145
DPMD Jayawardene89 (51)
TM Dilshan50 (43)
7
TM Dilshan4 (2)
NLTC Perera2 (2)
13
KC Sangakkara0 (1)
NLTC Perera12 (4)
20*
AD Mathews11 (5)
NLTC Perera9 (6)

England - Innings

0
MJ Lumb0 (5)
AD Hales0 (0)
0
MM Ali0 (1)
AD Hales0 (0)
152
EJG Morgan57 (38)
AD Hales93 (55)
4
AD Hales1 (1)
JC Buttler2 (3)
34*
RS Bopara11 (6)
AD Hales22 (8)

Manhattan

Run rate graph

Worm

  • Hales achieves blast-off

    No Englishman had scored a T20 international century until Alex Hales did it while taking Sri Lanka apart in a tall chase

  • The problem with low catches

    The cricket cognoscenti is largely eager to give the fielder the benefit of the doubt when a catch is referred. This should not be the case

  • Why do we over-react when changing cricket's rules?

    Instead of helping umpires react instinctively to situations, we have burdened them with misleading technology that has turned them into second-class citizens

  • Chandimal suspended for one match

    Dinesh Chandimal will miss Sri Lanka's final group match against New Zealand after he was suspended for one match due to Sri Lanka being found guilty of maintaining a slow over rate for the second time inside 12 months

  • England discover map through uncharted waters

    Having tossed away opportunities in the field with reckless abandon and slumping into negative territory at the start of their chase, England found the courage to make amends

Late night chases

9

Nine of the eleven games beginning at 7:30pm in this tournament have been won by the team batting second

A new high

25

Runs Ajantha Mendis conceded in his 4th over, his most expensive in T20 internationals

Century partnerships

2

This is only the second time the third wicket has added a century stand after a team was 0 for 2

Dodgy start

0 for 2

The only other time England were two down for no score was in the last World T20, against West Indies

Bit of a struggle

44

Tillakaratne Dilshan's fifty equaled his slowest in T20Is