2014 England Vs Sri Lanka First Test Match At Lords June 12-16,2014

 

Joe Root scored his maiden double hundred as England declared their innings on 575 for nine. Sri Lanka were 140 for one at stumps on day two on Friday June 13,2014 

 

 Joe Root became only the second Englishman to score a double hundred against Sri Lanka after Jonathan Trott and helped the hosts to their highest score against the Sri Lankans surpassing their 551 for six declared made in 2006

Sri Lanka fought back well reaching 140 for one at stumps on day two on Friday. The Sri Lankans are still 435 runs behind and need a further 235 to avoid follow on.

Sri Lanka lost opener Dimuth Karunaratne for 38 as debutant Chris Jordan claimed a wicket in his first over of Test cricket.

   

Scorecard

England 575/9d

Sri Lanka 140/1 (40.0 ov)

Sri Lanka trail by 435 runs with 9 wickets remaining in the 1st innings

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Stumps - Day 2

	England 1st innings		R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	AN Cook*	b Kulasekara	17	30	26	2	0	65.38
	SD Robson	c †HAPW Jayawardene b Pradeep	1	17	7	0	0	14.28
	GS Ballance	c †HAPW Jayawardene b Pradeep	23	72	40	4	0	57.50
	IR Bell	lbw b Eranga	56	105	75	7	1	74.66
	JE Root	not out	200	496	298	16	0	67.11
	MM Ali	c DPMD Jayawardene b Herath	48	125	98	6	1	48.97
	MJ Prior†	c Silva b Eranga	86	175	131	10	0	65.64
	CJ Jordan	c †HAPW Jayawardene b Eranga	19	20	19	3	0	100.00
	SCJ Broad	c Karunaratne b Pradeep	47	46	38	9	0	123.68
	LE Plunkett	c Silva b Pradeep	39	59	42	6	0	92.85
	JM Anderson	not out	9	24	15	1	0	60.00
	Extras	(b 12, lb 12, nb 6)	30
	Total	(9 wickets dec; 130.3 overs)	575	(4.40 runs per over)

Fall of wickets 1-14 (Robson, 3.6 ov), 2-22 (Cook, 6.1 ov), 3-74 (Ballance, 18.5 ov), 4-120 (Bell, 28.2 ov), 5-209 (Ali, 58.2 ov), 6-380 (Prior, 97.6 ov), 7-402 (Jordan, 101.6 ov), 8-466 (Broad, 111.3 ov), 9-547 (Plunkett, 125.3 ov)

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
	KMDN Kulasekara	22	3	83	1	3.77
	N Pradeep	29	2	123	4	4.24	(2nb)
	RMS Eranga	30	3	163	3	5.43	(4nb)
	AD Mathews	11	2	39	0	3.54
	HMRKB Herath	37.3	2	136	1	3.62
	HDRL Thirimanne	1	0	7	0	7.00

	Sri Lanka 1st innings		R	B	4s	6s	SR
	FDM Karunaratne	c †Prior b Jordan	38	38	6	0	100.00
	JK Silva	not out	62	141	10	0	43.97
	KC Sangakkara	not out	32	61	4	0	52.45
	Extras	(b 4, w 4)	8
	Total	(1 wicket; 40 overs)	140	(3.50 runs per over)

To batDPMD Jayawardene, HDRL Thirimanne, AD Mathews*, HAPW Jayawardene†, KMDN Kulasekara, HMRKB Herath, N Pradeep, RMS Eranga

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Fall of wickets 1-54 (Karunaratne, 12.3 ov)

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
	JM Anderson	10	1	43	0	4.30
	SCJ Broad	10	2	39	0	3.90	(1w)
	CJ Jordan	10	3	26	1	2.60	(1w)
	LE Plunkett	7	1	25	0	3.57	(2w)
	MM Ali	3	1	3	0	1.00

Match details

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Toss - Sri Lanka, who chose to field

Test debuts - MM Ali, CJ Jordan and SD Robson (England)

Close of play

• - day 1 - England 1st innings 344/5 (JE Root 102*, MJ Prior 76*, 89 ov)
• - day 2 - Sri Lanka 1st innings 140/1 (JK Silva 62*, KC Sangakkara 32*, 40 ov)

   

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Day Four

Gary Ballance celebrates his maiden test hundred after bringing it up with a six over mid-wicket

Ballance brought up hundred with six over mid-wicket on last over of day

England lead Sri Lanka by 389 runs going into day five at Lord's

Alastair Cook is expected to declare overnight with his side in control

England bowled Sri Lanka out for 453 in the first session on day four

The hosts lost five wickets in 15 over and fell to 121 for six

England ended the day 267 for 8 with Ballance 104 not out

Match Result -England v Sri Lanka first Test at Lord's

England 575-9 dec (Root 200 no, Prior 86, Bell 56, Pradeep 4-123) & 267-8 dec (Ballance 104 no, Herath 4-95)
Sri Lanka 453 (Sangakkara 147, Mathews 102, Silva 63, Jayawardene 55) & 201-9 (Sangakkara 61, Silva 57, Anderson 4-25)
England drew with Sri Lanka

Stuart Broad sank to his knees at the end of five hard days of Test cricket, barely able to believe that he could not penetrate the defences of Nuwan Pradeep and take England to what would have been an extraordinary Lord’s victory.

Sri Lanka’s last man, who had comically fallen on to his own wicket in the first innings, had somehow kept out the last five balls of the match to keep Broad and England at bay and earn his side the most hard fought and dramatic of draws.

Pradeep, with a Test average of five, had been given out when the penultimate ball thudded into his pads to cue wild English celebrations but Paul Reiffel’s decision was overturned when the review made it painfully clear that ball had struck bat before pad.

 

Stuart Broad reacts after bowling the final ball of the match 

 Number 11 Nuwan Pradeep survived five dramatic balls from Stuart Broad to help Sri Lanka avoid defeat

 

England’s ecstasy soon turned to agony at 6.45pm on the final day but when the dust settles on this first Investec Test they will surely acknowledge that Sri Lanka deserved to hang on after playing a full part in what became a wonderful advertisement for the ultimate form of the game.

• Nuwan Pradeep and Rangana Herath kept their wickets to save a draw
• Sri Lanka were 164 for three going into the final session of the first Test
• Anderson took the wickets of Sangakkara and Thirimanne in one over
• Kumar Sangakkara was bowled by Anderson for 61
• Opener Kaushal Silva scored 57, his second half-century of the match
• Mathews was dismissed for 18 off 89 balls with 18 balls remaining
• Anderson claimed four wickets for 25 off his 19 overs
• Broad ended the second innings with three wickets for 43 from 21 overs
• Chris Jordan claimed the other two wickets for 34 runs from 18 overs
• Joe Root was Named MOM for his first innings 200 not out