2019 ICC World Cup in England & Wales May 30 to July 14,2019 - Match 27 England Vs Sri Lanka @ Headingley,Leeds Friday June 21,2019

Headingley, Leeds Venue Statistics

43 ODIs, out of which 12 were World Cup matches (out of the 12 matches, only 11 could be played as one match ended in a No Result). It hosted two league matches and one semi-final in 1975, three league matches in 1979, three league matches in 1983 and one league match and two Super Six matches in 1999.

India has played a total of 9 ODIs at Headingley, winning 3 and losing 6.

Batting performances

339/6 by England against South Africa in 2017 is the highest team total at this ground.
93 all out by England against Australia in 1975 is the lowest team total at this ground.
408 runs scored by Marcus Trescothick of England is the highest number of runs scored by a player at this ground.
152 by Sanath Jayasuriya of Sri Lanka against England in 2006 is the highest individual score by a player at this ground.
16 centuries have been scored at this ground
 centuries scored by Joe Root (Eng), Marcus Trescothick (Eng) and Sanath Jayasuriya (SL) each is the highest number of centuries scored by a player at this ground. No Indian player has scored a century at this ground till date.
3 half-centuries scored by Eoin Morgan of England is the highest number of half-centuries scored by a player at this ground.

Bowling performances

12 wickets taken by Chris Old of England is the highest number of wickets taken by a player at this ground.
7/36 by Waqar Younis of Pakistan against England in 2001 is the best bowling performance by a player at this ground.
6 five-wicket hauls have been taken at this ground.

Wicket-keeping performances

13 dismissals by Rod Marsh of Australia is the highest number of dismissals by a wicket-keeper at this ground.
6 dismissals by MS Dhoni (India) against England in 2007 is the highest number of dismissals by a wicket-keeper in an innings at this ground.

Fielding performances

4 catches by Asif Iqbal (Pak), Ian Botham (Eng), Liam Plunkett (Eng), Ben Stokes (Eng), Andrew Strauss (Eng) and David Gower (Eng) each is the highest number of catches by a player at this ground.
3 catches by Tony Greig of England against West Indies in 1973 and by Bishan Singh Bedi of India against England in 1974 is the highest number of catches by a player in an innings at this ground

Hosts England will look to continue their good form and strengthen their position at the top half of the table when they take on Sri Lanka in a crunch ICC World Cup 2019 encounter at Headingley in Leeds on Friday

The ‘Three Lions’ have won four out of their five matches in the competition so far and their solitary loss came against Pakistan. As for Sri Lanka, they have won one, lost two and two matches were abandoned due to rain

England play their 6th match having

1. defeated South Africa by 104 Runs @ The Oval on May 30
2. lost to Pakistan by 14 Runs @Trent Bridge,Nottingham on June 03
3. defeated Bangladesh by 106 Runs @ Cardiff on June 08
4. defeated West Indies by 8 wickets @ The Rose Bowl,Southampton on June 14
5. defeated Afghansitan by  @ Old Trafford,Manchester on June 18

Sri Lanka play their 6th match having

1. lost to New Zealand by 10 wickets @ Cardiff on June 01
2. defeated Afghanistan by 34 Runs under D/L @ Cardiff on June 04
3. match Vs Pakistan abandoned@Bristol due to rain on June 07
4. match Vs Bangladesh abandoned@Bristol due to rain on June 11
5. lost to Australia by 87 Runs @The Oval on June 15

England Vs Sri Lanka Head to Head in CWC's

England and Sri Lanka faced each other 10 times in CWC so far. England won 6 of them losing 4.

The Last game they played was in 2015 CWC in which Sri Lanka defeated England by 9 wickets.

England have won just 1 of their last 5 encounters against Sri Lanka in World Cups and that will definitely send the alarm bells in the hosts’ camp.

Also Sri Lanka have gotten the better of England at this venue in the last two encounters between the two teams. So form may be on England’s side but history suggests Sri Lanka are more than capable of pulling off one of the big upsets of the tournament.

Date	Winner	Margin	Ground
3/1/2015	Sri Lanka	9 wickets	Wellington
3/26/2011	Sri Lanka	10 wickets	Colombo (RPS)
4/4/2007	Sri Lanka	2 runs	North Sound
5/14/1999	England	8 wickets	Lord's
3/9/1996	Sri Lanka	5 wickets	Faisalabad
3/9/1992	England	106 runs	Ballarat
10/30/1987	England	8 wickets	Pune
10/17/1987	England	108 runs	Peshawar
6/20/1983	England	9 wickets	Leeds
6/11/1983	England	47 runs	Taunton

Sri Lanka beat England by 20 Runs

Scorecard

Sri Lanka          232/9 in 50 Overs

England            212/10 in 47 Overs

Match Result    Sri Lanka won by 20 Runs

MOM                Lasith Malinga for his 4/43(10 Overs)

Sri Lanka never had enough runs on the board but England were forced to bow down to Lasith Malinga who bowled his heart out and led his team to a historic win in Leeds on Friday June 21

England had their own rebel in Stokes who fought till the end but ran out of allies as the hosts fell short by 20 runs.

Jofra Archer (3 for 52), Mark Wood (3 for 40) and Adil Rashid (2 for 45) were amongst wickets as Sri Lanka, despite Angelo Mathews' 115-ball 85*, could only manage 232 for 9 in their 50 overs.

In response, Malinga (4 for 43) dismantled England's top order before Dhananjaya de Silva (3 for 32), Isuru Udana (2 for 41) and Nuwan Pradeep (1 for 38) cleaned up the tail, bundling England out for 212

Ben Stokes played a gem of a knock and remained unbeaten on 82

Lasith Malinga joins McGrath, Murali and Akram

51 - Wickets in the World Cup for Lasith Malinga, who played a stellar role in Sri Lanka's win with a haul of 4 for 43. He became just the fourth bowler to take 50 or more wickets in the World Cup. Glenn McGrath, Muttiah Muralitharan and Wasim Akram are the others to achieve this distinction.