Sri Lankan cricket team in England in 2006
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| Sri Lanka in England 2006 | ||
| Teams |
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| Dates | 24 April – 1 July 2006 | |
| Captains | Mahela Jayawardene | Andrew Flintoff |
| Number of Tests | 3 | |
| Tests won | 1 | 1 |
| Most runs (Tests) | Kumar Sangakkara (231) | Kevin Pietersen (360) |
| Most wickets (Tests) | Muttiah Muralitharan (24) | Matthew Hoggard (15) |
| Player of Series (Tests) | Muttiah Muralitharan (Sri Lanka) and Kevin Pietersen (England) | |
| Number of ODIs | 5 | |
| ODIs won | 5 | 0 |
| Most runs (ODIs) | Upul Tharanga (347) | Marcus Trescothick (277) |
| Most wickets (ODIs) | Lasith Malinga (13) | Steve Harmison (8) |
| Player of Series (ODIs) | Sanath Jayasuriya | |
| Number of Twenty20s | 1 | |
| Twenty20 series | 1 | 0 |
| Most runs (Twenty20s) | Sanath Jayasuriya (41) | Marcus Trescothick (72) |
| Most wickets (Twenty20s) | Sanath Jayasuriya (2) | Paul Collingwood (4) |
| Player of Series (Twenty20s) | Sanath Jayasuriya | |
Sri Lanka toured England for cricket matches during the 2006 international cricket season. England were back home for the first time since September and looked to maintain their Test standards, which saw them keep their second place in the ICC Test Championship in India, and the teams ewre also competing for sixth place in the ICC ODI Championship as both England and Sri Lanka are coming off the back of two lost ODI tours on the Asian sub-continent, against India and Pakistan respectively. To add to problems, both teams are likely to be missing some key members of the team as England were without some of their squad for their previous tour and, two days before Sri Lanka departed for England, it was revealed that skipper Marvan Atapattu would stay at home for the tour due to back problems that forced him to skip his previous tour too, Jehan Mubarak was brought in as his replacement.
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[edit] Schedule
| Date | Match | Venue |
|---|---|---|
| April | ||
| 24-26 | Tour Match | Fenner's |
| 29-1 May | Tour Match | County Ground, Derby |
| May | ||
| 4-7 | Tour Match | New Road, Worcester |
| 11-15 | 1st Test | Lord's |
| 18-21 | Tour Match | Country Ground, Hove |
| 25-29 | 2nd Test | Edgbaston |
| June | ||
| 2-6 | 3rd Test | Trent Bridge |
| 15 | Twenty20 | Rose Bowl, Hampshire |
| 17 | 1st ODI | Lord's |
| 20 | 2nd ODI | The Oval |
| 24 | 3rd ODI | Riverside Ground |
| 28 | 4th ODI | Old Trafford |
| July | ||
| 1 | 5th ODI | Headingley |
[edit] Squads
| Sri Lanka (Test Squad)[1] | England [2][3] |
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[edit] First Class Matches
[edit] Tour Match: Sri Lanka v British Universities (24-26 April)
Sri Lanka 289 & 256-6(dec) drew with British Universities 125 & 130-8 [4]
[edit] Tour Match: Sri Lanka v Derbyshire (29 April-1 May)
Sri Lanka 166-7(dec) and 262-4 defeated Derbyshire 219 & 208-4(dec) by 6 wickets [5]
[edit] Tour Match: Sri Lanka v England A (4-7 May)
England A (259 & 41-0) beat Sri Lanka (179 & 118) by 10 wickets[6]
[edit] First Test (11-15 May)
 England |
6/551 (dec) | Match drawn[7] | ||
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KP Pietersen 158 |
Lord's, London, England |
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 Sri Lanka |
192 | & | 9-537 | |
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DPMD Jayawardene 61 |
DPMD Jayawardene 119 |
England won the toss and decided to bat. Flintoff handed Sajid Mahmood his first Test cap, while Chamara Kapugedera made his Test debut for Sri Lanka. Marcus Trescothick opened for England for the first time since last year, alongside Andrew Strauss. 20 minutes before lunch Muttiah Muralitharan was brought in for his first over at Lord's, the 23rd of the England innings, with the seamers not having taken a wicket. However, in the fourth over of Muralitharan's innings Jayawardene had Strauss caught off Muralitharan, putting the English at 86 for one at lunch. The afternoon session started with Alistair Cook, playing in his first home Test, coming in to face his first ball in home Test cricket; after leaving that one alone, he proceeded to 44 not out by tea, while Trescothick was on 95 not out.[8]. Trescothick got his hundred by "slogging"[8] Muralitharan for a single, but in the next over he, too, perished through being caught by Jayawardene. England batted through to stumps and lost only one further wicket, with Cook caught behind off Farveez Maharoof's bowling for 89, and England closed with nightwatchman Matthew Hoggard at the crease and the overnight total 318 for three. Sri Lanka, however, had taken a catch off a no-ball, a close lbw against Kevin Pietersen turned down off Chaminda Vaas, and Alastair Cook a couple of inches from being run out.[9]
Day two began with Hoggard staying in the crease opposite Pietersen for 37 balls before being bowled by Vaas. This gave way to Paul Collingwood, who had made his first Test century in the first Test of the 2005–06 India tour. Collingwood contributed 57 to a partnership of 173 between the two before Pietersen fell at 158 trapped lbw by Vaas, and Collingwood a few balls later fell in the same fashion by Muralitharan. With England six down, Andrew Flintoff and Geraint Jones were the new batsmen, and the two made scores 33 and 11 respectively before Flintoff declared following his second six, off Muralitharan. The umpires called tea time early due to the declaration and the touring team came back out with their openers Mubarak and Tharanga. However, Mubarak quickly went back, after he was bowled by Hoggard without a run scored by any of the batsmen. Tharanga went five overs later, though with a more successful partnership of 21, the same amount of runs the third Sri Lankan, Kumar Sangakkara, managed to make before caught off Sajid Mahmood, his first Test dismissal. At this time, they were 81 for two: fifteen minutes later, the scoreboard read 85 for six, with three batsmen out for ducks including debutant Kapugedera who fell on his first Test ball. The day's play was curtailed by bad light, which left Sri Lanka at 91 for six, fourteen of which came off English extras, while Mahmood's debut figures read three for nine.
The third day started with the clement weather of the last few days overshadowed by clouds and the forecast of rain. With Mahmood unable to add to his tally from yesterday, conceding 41 runs on the day. Sri Lanka batted through ten overs, but Farveez Maharoof gave a return catch to Hoggard, and two overs later Flintoff makes a breakthrough, getting Jayawardene out with a catch by wicket-keeper Geraint Jones. However, the ninth-wicket stand between Vaas and Nuwan Kulasekara gave the most runs of the entire innings, as the two add 62 in just over an hour. After lunch, however, they were out in the space of three deliveries, and Sri Lanka were all out for 192.
Flintoff enforced the follow on, and once again Mubarak was out in single figures to Hoggard, the total 10 for one. However, Tharanga and Sangakkara built Sri Lanka's largest partnership of the match thus far, both making half-centuries and sharing a stand of 109. Eventually both batsmen were caught by Jones off spinner Monty Panesar, with Sangakkara's innings lasting four and a half hours for 65 runs, but at this point England required seven wickets and had two days to do it in.
However, nightwatchman Farveez Maharoof frustrated the England bowlers. He was dropped on 30 by Paul Collingwood, and went on to bat through 40 overs and 166 minutes, as Sri Lanka went through the entire morning session without loss. England then got two wickets in five overs, both courtesy of Sajid Mahmood, but that only brought in Tillakaratne Dilshan. Another 20 overs followed without a wicket, with Mahela Jayawardene completing his century, before being caught behind for 119 four overs before the close of play on day four, as 24 overs were cut due to bad light.[10]
Sri Lanka then lost both their last specialist batsmen, Kapugedera and Dilshan, but were leading by 62 runs at that time. The ninth-wicket partners Vaas and Kulasekara, however, had already showed their batting skills by having the highest partnership of the first innings, and they were eight runs away from achieving that again in the second. Batting through 189 minutes, the pair secured the draw for Sri Lanka, with Kulasekara even hitting a couple of sixes as he ended with 64 when Pietersen held a catch off Hoggard's bowling. However, by then it was too late, as Sri Lanka led by 167 runs and there was only half an hour left to score those runs in. Indeed, the tenth-wicket stand frustrated England until stumps: Muralitharan faced out that half-hour, scoring one run, while Vaas got his half-century before the close of play.
[edit] Tour Match: Sri Lanka v Sussex (18-21 May)
Sri Lanka 521-5 (dec) & 5-1 drew with Sussex 262 [11]
[edit] Second Test (25-29 May)
| Sri Lanka |
141 (51.2 overs) WPUJC Vaas 30 (78) |
& | 231 (93.2 overs)
MG Vandort 105 (303) |
'England won by 6 wickets[12] ' Edgbaston, Birmingham, England |
| England |
295 (78.3 overs) KP Pietersen 142 (157) |
& | 81/4 (27.2 overs) A Cook 34* (85) |
Sri Lanka won the toss and skipper Mahela Jayawardene chose to bat; it seemed that they made the wrong choice as England crippled them to 82/2 with the help of a swinging wicket, before Chaminda Vaas and Lasith Malinga put up a half century partnership and the team were all out for 141. Matthew Hoggard's swinging and cult-hero Monty Panesar put on impressive shows but regular ODI player, Liam Plunkett, was the real boon of the side. Before the end of the first day, England had all but closed the deficit as stumps was called at 138/3, Marcus Trescothick and Andrew Strauss putting on a 56 partnership before Alastair Cook came out, soon followed by big-hitter Kevin Pietersen who was 30 at stumps aided by a 6, and went on to score another Test century the next day - the only batsmen in the first innings to hit more than 30. Despite the hot-headed player's skills, England were not fully confident at the slip, Cook being saved by a dropped ball by the Sri Lanka skipper and Muttiah Muralitharan proved quite a threat.
Pietersen opened the second day, 80 minutes late thanks to rain, with nightwatchmen Hoggard, the latter putting on his normal single figures, this time 3 runs, but holding the line for 36 balls. Once normal play resumed with Paul Collingwood England continued to dominate, setting their targets high with a 69 partnership before Collingwood gloved Murali to short leg for 238/5 and was replaced by skipper Andrew Flintoff who was surprisingly tame. Pietersen went on to hit three 4s in as many balls before hitting a reverse-sweeper 6 but then being bowled lbw by Murali, achieving three Test centuries in consecutive Tests. After the departure of their number four, England crumbled hopelessly from 290/6 to 295 all out just before tea. The mood in the English camp was swiftly revitalised by the hot drinks as Hoggard bowled Upul Tharanga for a golden duck, having been bowled for nothing in the first innings. Two more men went to see the tourists at 43/3 with a 111 run deficit and before the close of play Geraint Jones redeemed his missed catch to Thilan Samaraweera by stumping soon after, unbeaten opener Michael Vandort remained at the crease for 30 when play closed at 7:30 due to the missed play earlier. After persistent rain over Birmingham, play was started at 4:45 and the fifth wicket held up for 125, helping them take the lead. Both batsmen fought off good efforts by Panesar and Plunkett but eventually it was Hoggard who made the only breakthrough on a day where Sri Lanka stood tall for a short day at 194/5.
With the new ball due six overs into the fourth day Sri Lankan wickets fell thick and fast, half the team falling before lunch, the last of which being opener Michael Vandort who narrowly missed out on being the fifth batsmen ever to hold his wicket throughout an entire innings. England took to the crease just before lunch with a very slow run rate that came only from Strauss - Trescothick fell after nine runs, none of them contributed by him. The third man, Alastair Cook held out for the rest of the innings though achieving 34 not out; during this time Strauss fell to a controversial catch, replays showed it popped off his pads. Pietersen, wanting to end the Test quickly, took the wicket with his usual speed, taking 13 runs off 25 balls his confidence assured by a catch by the tourists' skipper to be called a no ball, and a further two no balls which he took boundaries off. However, his cockiness proved his downfall as he lashed out at a ball from Murali, the only bowler to take wickets in the second innings, and was caught plumb. Collingwood soon fell for 3 and it seemed as if the easy target of 78 was going to be more of a struggle but Cook, remaining from the second partnership, took two runs and two byes and skipper Flintoff, who done nothing with his first three balls, drove Murali down the ground to long on for four on his fourth ball to win the match, and his third in a row as English skipper.
[edit] Third Test (2-5 June)
| Sri Lanka |
231 (66.2 overs) WPUJC Vaas 38 (94) |
& | 322 (113.1 overs)
KC Sangakkara 66 (133) |
'Sri Lanka won by 134 runs[13] ' Trent Bridge, Nottingham, England |
| England |
229 (91.1 overs) KP Pietersen 41 (58) |
& | 190 (68.5 overs) AJ Strauss 55 (115) |
[edit] Limited Over Matches
[edit] Tour Match: Sri Lanka v Essex(9 June)
Essex 174-4 (38) beat Sri Lanka 172 (43.3) by 6 wickets.[14]
[edit] Tour Match: Sri Lanka v Somerset(11 June)
Somerset 332-6 (50) beat Sri Lanka 281 (46.3) by 51 runs[15]
[edit] Twenty20 Match (15 June)
| Sri Lanka 163 (20 overs) |
vs | England 161-5 (20 overs) |
Sri Lanka won by 2 runs[16] Rose Bowl, Hampshire, Southampton, England Umpires: IJ Gould (Eng) and NJ Llong (Eng) Man of the Match: ST Jayasuriya (SL) |
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| ST Jayasuriya 41 (30) PD Collingwood 4-22 |
ME Trescothick 72 (58) ST Jayasuriya 2-32 |
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[edit] First ODI (17 June)
| Sri Lanka 257/9 (50 overs) |
vs | England 237/9 (50 overs) |
Sri Lanka won by 20 Runs[17] Lord's, London, England Umpires: DB Hair (AUS) and NJ Llong (ENG) Man of the Match: WU Tharanga (SL) |
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| WU Tharanga 120 (156) SJ Harmison 3-51 |
JWM Dalrymple 67 (87) SL Malinga 3-26 |
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[edit] Second ODI (20 June)
| Sri Lanka 319/8 (50 overs) |
vs | England 273 (46.4 overs) |
Sri Lanka won by 46 Runs[18] The Oval, London, England Umpires: IJ Gould (ENG) and DB Hair (AUS) Man of the Match: ST Jayasuriya (SL) |
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| ST Jayasuriya 122 (136) SJ Harmison 3-51 |
KP Pietersen 73 (76) ST Jayasuriya 3-52 |
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[edit] Third ODI (24 June)
| England 261/7 (50 overs) |
vs | Sri Lanka 265/2 (42.2 overs) |
Sri Lanka won by 8 wickets[19] Riverside Ground, Chester-le-Street, England Umpires: MR Benson (ENG) and BR Doctrove (WI) Man of the Match: DPMD Jayawardene (SL) |
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| IR Bell 77 (114) WPUJC Vaas 2/38 |
DPMD Jayawardene 126 (127) JWM Dalrymple 1/40 |
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[edit] Fourth ODI (28 June)
| Sri Lanka 7/318 (50 overs) |
vs | England 285 (48.4 overs) |
Sri Lanka won by 33 runs [20] County Ground, Old Trafford, Manchester, England Umpires: BR Doctrove (WI) and NJ Llong (Eng) Man of the Match: DPMD Jayawardene (SL) |
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| DPMD Jayawardene 100 (83) JWM Dalrymple 2/44 |
AJ Strauss 45 (44) CM Bandara 2/43 |
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[edit] Fifth ODI (1 July)
| England 321/7 (50 overs) |
vs | Sri Lanka 324/2 (37.3 overs) |
Sri Lanka won by 8 wickets[21] Headingley, Leeds, England Umpires: MR Benson (ENG) and BR Doctrove (WI) Man of the Match: ST Jayasuriya (SL) |
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| ME Trescothick 121 (118) SL Malinga 4/44 |
ST Jayasuriya 152 (99) VS Solanki 1/17 |
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[edit] Notes
- ^ Sri Lanka Squad retrieved 27 April 2006, from Cricinfo
- ^ England Squad, retrieved from Cricinfo
- ^ Chapple in one-day squad, from Cricinfo, retrieved 7 June 2006
- ^ Tour Match: Sri Lanka v British Universities Scorecard, from Cricinfo, retrieved 28 April 2006
- ^ Tour Match: Sri Lanka v Derbyshire Scorecard, from Cricinfo, retrieved 2 May 2006
- ^ Tour Match: Sri Lanka v England A scorecard, retrieved from Cricinfo
- ^ First Test Scorecard, retrieved from Cricinfo on 16 June 2006
- ^ a b Cricinfo - Commentary - 1st Test: England v Sri Lanka, retrieved from Cricinfo on 16 June 2006
- ^ Trescothick sparkles on return, by Andrew McGlashan, published by Cricinfo on 11 May 2006
- ^ Jayawardene and light delay England by Andrew McGlashan, retrieved 16 June 2006, published by Cricinfo on 14 May 2006
- ^ Tour Match: Sri Lanka v Sussex Scorecard, retrieved from Cricinfo
- ^ Second Test Scorecard, retrieved from Cricinfo
- ^ Third Test Scorecard, retrieved from Cricinfo
- ^ Tour Match: Sri Lanka v Essex Scorecard, retrieved from Cricinfo, 11 June 2006
- ^ Tour Match: Sri Lanka v Somerset Scorecard, retrieved from Cricinfo
- ^ Twenty20 International Scorecard, retrieved from Cricinfo
- ^ First ODI Scorecard, retrieved from Cricinfo
- ^ Second ODI Scorecard, retrieved from Cricinfo
- ^ Third ODI Scorecard, retrieved from Cricinfo
- ^ Fourth ODI Scorecard, retrieved from Cricinfo, 29 June 2006
- ^ Fifth ODI Scorecard, retrieved from Cricinfo
[edit] External sources
[edit] References
- Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians - various publications
- Playfair Cricket Annual
- Wisden Cricketers Almanack
| International cricket in 2006 | |
| Preceding season | International cricket in 2005–06 |
| March 2006 | ICC Intercontinental Cup |
| April 2006 | West Indies v Zimbabwe |
| May 2006 | West Indies v India – Associates Tri-Series (Trinidad) – England v Sri Lanka |
| June 2006 | Ireland v England – Scotland v Pakistan |
| July 2006 | Netherlands v Sri Lanka – Top End Series – England v Pakistan – England U–19 v India U–19 – Sri Lanka v South Africa – Zimbabwe v Bangladesh |
| August 2006 | England Women v India Women – Kenya v Bangladesh |
| Following season | International cricket in 2006–07 |
