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England v Sri Lanka, 1998, 1st test
The Oval, 27/08/1998 - 31/08/1998

Toss: Sri Lanka
Umpires: DR Shepherd, EA Nicholls
Result: Sri Lanka won by 10 wickets

England
MA Butcher            c Jayasuriya       b Wickramasinghe        10
SP James                             c & b Muralitharan          36
GA Hick               c Kaluwitharana    b Wickramasinghe       107
*+AJ Stewart          c Tillakaratne     b Perera                 2
MR Ramprakash         c Jayawardene      b Muralitharan          53
JP Crawley            not out                                   156
BC Hollioake          c Atapattu         b Muralitharan          14
DG Cork                                  b Muralitharan           6
IDK Salisbury                            b Muralitharan           2
D Gough               c Kaluwitharana    b Muralitharan           4
ARC Fraser                               b Muralitharan          32
Extras                b 1, lb 11, w 2, nb 9                      23
Total                 all out                                   445

Fall Of Wickets
1-16 (Butcher)                2-78 (James)                  
3-81 (Stewart)                4-209 (Ramprakash)            
5-230 (Hick)                  6-277 (Hollioake)             
7-333 (Cork)                  8-343 (Salisbury)             
9-356 (Gough)                 10-445 (Fraser)               

Bowling
Wickramasinghe      30      4    81     2
Perera              40     10   104     1
Dharmasena          18      3    55     0
Muralitharan        59.3   14   155     7
Jayasuriya          11      0    38     0

Sri Lanka
ST Jayasuriya         c Stewart          b Hollioake            213
MS Atapattu           lbw                b Cork                  15
DPM Jayawardene       c Hollioake        b Fraser                 9
PA de Silva           c Stewart          b Hollioake            152
*A Ranatunga          lbw                b Gough                 51
HP Tillakaratne       lbw                b Gough                  0
+RS Kaluwitharana     c Crawley          b Cork                  25
HDPK Dharmasena       lbw                b Fraser                13
ASA Perera            not out                                    43
GP Wickramasinghe                        b Fraser                 0
M Muralitharan        c Stewart          b Salisbury             30
Extras                b 15, lb 20, w 1, nb 4                     40
Total                 all out                                   591

Fall Of Wickets
1-53 (Atapattu)               2-85 (Jayawardene)            
3-328 (Jayasuriya)            4-450 (Ranatunga)             
5-450 (Tillakaratne)          6-488 (Kaluwitharana)         
7-504 (de Silva)              8-526 (Dharmasena)            
9-532 (Wickramasinghe)        10-591 (Muralitharan)         

Bowling
Gough               30      5   102     2
Fraser              23      3    95     3
Hollioake           26      2   105     2
Cork                36      5   128     2
Salisbury           25.5    7    86     1
Ramprakash           5      0    24     0
Butcher             11      2    16     0

England
MA Butcher            st Kaluwitharana   b Muralitharan          15
SP James              c Jayawardene      b Muralitharan          25
GA Hick               lbw                b Muralitharan           0
*+AJ Stewart          run out                                    32
MR Ramprakash         c Tillakaratne     b Muralitharan          42
JP Crawley                               b Muralitharan          14
BC Hollioake          lbw                b Muralitharan           0
DG Cork               c Kaluwitharana    b Muralitharan           8
IDK Salisbury         lbw                b Muralitharan           0
D Gough                                  b Muralitharan          15
ARC Fraser            not out                                     0
Extras                b 7, lb 8, w 1, nb 14                      30
Total                 all out                                   181

Fall Of Wickets
1-25 (Butcher)                2-25 (Hick)                   
3-78 (James)                  4-93 (Stewart)                
5-116 (Crawley)               6-116 (Hollioake)             
7-127 (Cork)                  8-127 (Salisbury)             
9-180 (Ramprakash)            10-181 (Gough)                

Bowling
Wickramasinghe       4      0    16     0
Perera              11      2    22     0
Dharmasena          19.3   13    12     0
Muralitharan        54.2   27    65     9
Jayasuriya          28     14    30     0
de Silva            10.3    3    16     0
Jayawardene          2      0     5     0

Sri Lanka
ST Jayasuriya         not out                                    24
MS Atapattu           not out                                     9
Extras                b 0, lb 4, w 0, nb 0                        4
Total                 for 0 wickets                              37

Fall Of Wickets

Bowling
Fraser               2      0    19     0
Hollioake            1      0    11     0
Cork                 2      0     3     0