England v Sri Lanka (736)

a7456 o736 wc106	England v Sri Lanka
	Benson and Hedges World Cup 1991/92
Venue	Eastern Oval, Ballarat on 9th March 1992 (50-over match)
Balls per over	6
Toss	England won the toss and decided to bat
Result	England won by 106 runs
Points	England 2; Sri Lanka 0
Umpires	Khizer Hayat, PD Reporter
Referee	RF Merriman
Man of the Match	CC Lewis

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England innings Runs Balls Mins 4s 6s *GA Gooch b Labrooy 8 28 40 1 - IT Botham b Anurasiri 47 63 106 5 2 RA Smith run out 19 39 46 2 - GA Hick b Ramanayake 41 62 73 3 - NH Fairbrother c Ramanayake b Gurusinha 63 70 96 3 2 +AJ Stewart c Jayasuriya b Gurusinha 59 36 48 7 1 CC Lewis not out 20 6 9 1 2 DR Pringle not out 0 0 2 - - DA Reeve did not bat PAJ DeFreitas did not bat RK Illingworth did not bat Extras (1 b, 9 lb, 4 nb, 9 w) 23 Total (6 wickets, innings closed, 50 overs) 280 Fall of wickets: 1-44 (Gooch), 2-80 (Smith), 3-105 (Botham), 4-164 (Hick), 5-244 (Fairbrother), 6-268 (Stewart) Sri Lanka bowling Overs Mdns Runs Wkts Wides No-Balls Wickramasinghe 9 0 54 0 3 - Ramanayake 10 1 42 1 3 4 Labrooy 10 1 68 1 2 - Anurasiri 10 1 27 1 - - Gurusinha 10 0 67 2 1 - Jayasuriya 1 0 12 0 - - Sri Lanka innings Runs Balls Mins 4s 6s RS Mahanama c Botham b Lewis 9 19 31 1 - MAR Samarasekera c Illingworth b Lewis 23 29 42 4 - AP Gurusinha c and b Lewis 7 9 31 - - *PA de Silva c Fairbrother b Lewis 7 10 10 1 - A Ranatunga c Stewart b Botham 36 51 67 6 - +HP Tillakaratne run out 4 30 40 - - ST Jayasuriya c DeFreitas b Illingworth 19 16 20 2 - GF Labrooy c Smith b Illingworth 19 34 42 1 - CPH Ramanayake c and b Reeve 12 38 35 - - SD Anurasiri lbw b Reeve 11 19 17 - - GP Wickramasinghe not out 6 16 14 - - Extras (7 lb, 6 nb, 8 w) 21 Total (all out, 44 overs) 174 Fall of wickets: 1-33 (Mahanama), 2-46 (Samarasekera), 3-56 (de Silva), 4-60 (Gurusinha), 5-91 (Tillakaratne), 6-119 (Ranatunga), 7-123 (Jayasuriya), 8-156 (Ramanayake), 9-158 (Labrooy), 10-174 (Anurasiri) England bowling Overs Mdns Runs Wkts Wides No-Balls Pringle 7 1 27 0 1 3 Lewis 8 0 30 4 2 2 DeFreitas 5 1 31 0 3 1 Botham 10 0 33 1 1 - Illingworth 10 0 32 2 - - Reeve 4 0 14 2 1 -

Notes
--> CC Lewis passed his previous highest ODIs score of 18
--> RS Mahanama passed 1500 runs in ODIs when he reached 6
--> GF Labrooy reached 50 wickets in ListA Matches when he dismissed GA Gooch, his 1st wicket in the England innings
--> CC Lewis achieved his best innings bowling analysis in ODIs in the Sri Lanka innings (previous best was 4-35)