Sri Lankan cricket team in England in 1998
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The Sri Lankan cricket team
toured England in the 1998 season. On the tour they played 4 first-class
matches, 5 List A matches and a single Test match
. They also competed in a tri-series tournament against England and South Africa, entitled the Emirates Triangular Tournament
. They won the competition by defeating England in the final, also beating South Africa in the group stage. They won the only Test, with Muttiah Muralitharan taking a career best 16/220 - the 5th best bowling figures in a match in Test cricket history.
, to be played at County Ground
, Southampton
on July 12, was abandoned without a ball bowled. It did not have List A status.
This match did not have List A status.
The match's length was reduced after initial attempts to start a game had failed, due to problems with the pitch. Sanath Jayasuriya
had been hit on the hand four times in the first four overs, and it was agreed that it was too hazardous to play on. Play resumed with 5 overs lost for each side.
some batting practice. Despite being able to enforce the follow-on
, Hampshire instead decided to forfeit their second innings
, giving the Sri Lankans a target of 309 runs off the last 89 overs
of the final day to win, which they reached following an unbeaten century from Chandika Hathurusingha
and 90 from Mahela Jayawardene
. Jayawardene went on to claim a place in Sri Lanka's Test squad to face England.
format, all 3 teams played each other once, with the top two teams going through to a head-to-head final to decide the winner.
W = Games won
L = Games lost
NR = Games with no result
T = Games tied
NRR = Net run rate
Lost = 0 points
Tie or No result = 1 point
Standard net run rate rules applied.
Because England and Sri Lanka had the best run rates, they were ranked as the top two teams. England beat Sri Lanka and finished top of the group. South Africa's run rate meant they missed out on the final, despite having beaten England, and that a better run rate than Sri Lanka would have put them top of the table.
John Crawley also claimed a Test career best of 156 not out.
Sri Lankan cricket team
The Sri Lankan cricket team is the national cricket team of Sri Lanka. The team first played international cricket in 1926–27, and were later awarded Test status in 1981, which made Sri Lanka the eighth Test cricket playing nation...
toured England in the 1998 season. On the tour they played 4 first-class
First-class cricket
First-class cricket is a class of cricket that consists of matches of three or more days' scheduled duration, that are between two sides of eleven players and are officially adjudged first-class by virtue of the standard of the competing teams...
matches, 5 List A matches and a single Test match
Test cricket
Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. Test matches are played between national representative teams with "Test status", as determined by the International Cricket Council , with four innings played between two teams of 11 players over a period of up to a maximum five days...
. They also competed in a tri-series tournament against England and South Africa, entitled the Emirates Triangular Tournament
1998 Emirates Triangular Tournament
The Emirates Triangular Tournament was a cricket tri-series involving touring nations Sri Lanka and South Africa against each other and hosts England, in the 1998 international season...
. They won the competition by defeating England in the final, also beating South Africa in the group stage. They won the only Test, with Muttiah Muralitharan taking a career best 16/220 - the 5th best bowling figures in a match in Test cricket history.
Sri Lankans v Hampshire
The limited overs match against HampshireHampshire County Cricket Club
Hampshire County Cricket Club represents the historic county of Hampshire in cricket's County Championship. The club was founded in 1863 as a successor to the Hampshire county cricket teams and has played at the Antelope Ground from then until 1885, before moving to the County Ground where it...
, to be played at County Ground
County Ground, Southampton
The County Ground in Southampton, England was a former cricket and football ground. It was the home of Hampshire County Cricket Club from the 1885 English cricket season until the 2000 English cricket season...
, Southampton
Southampton
Southampton is the largest city in the county of Hampshire on the south coast of England, and is situated south-west of London and north-west of Portsmouth. Southampton is a major port and the closest city to the New Forest...
on July 12, was abandoned without a ball bowled. It did not have List A status.
Sri Lankans v Somerset - First-class match
Sri Lankans v Glamorgan - First-class match
Sri Lankans v Leicestershire - First-class match
Sri Lankans v Worcestershire - List A match
Sri Lankans v Middlesex - First-class match
Sri Lankans v England Cricket Board XI
This match did not have List A status.
Sri Lankans v Northamptonshire - first List A match
Sri Lankans v Northamptonshire - second List A match
Sri Lankans v Kent - List A match
The match's length was reduced after initial attempts to start a game had failed, due to problems with the pitch. Sanath Jayasuriya
Sanath Jayasuriya
Sanath Teran Jayasuriya is a former Sri Lankan cricketer. An all-rounder, he played for the Sri Lankan cricket team from 1989 to 2011...
had been hit on the hand four times in the first four overs, and it was agreed that it was too hazardous to play on. Play resumed with 5 overs lost for each side.
Sri Lankans v Hampshire - First-class match
Trailing by 308 runs and having lost their top order, the Sri Lankans decided to declare, with the hope of giving their openers and top orderBatting order (cricket)
In cricket, the batting order is the sequence in which batsmen play through their team's innings, there always being two batsmen taking part at any one time...
some batting practice. Despite being able to enforce the follow-on
Follow-on
Follow-on is a term used in the sport of cricket to describe a situation where the team that bats second is forced to take its second batting innings immediately after its first, because the team was not able to get close enough to the score achieved by the first team batting in the first innings...
, Hampshire instead decided to forfeit their second innings
Innings
An inning, or innings, is a fixed-length segment of a game in any of a variety of sports – most notably cricket and baseball during which one team attempts to score while the other team attempts to prevent the first from scoring. In cricket, the term innings is both singular and plural and is...
, giving the Sri Lankans a target of 309 runs off the last 89 overs
Over (cricket)
In the sport of cricket, an over is a set of six consecutive balls bowled in succession. An over is normally bowled by a single bowler. However, in the event of injury preventing a bowler from completing an over, it is completed by a teammate....
of the final day to win, which they reached following an unbeaten century from Chandika Hathurusingha
Chandika Hathurusingha
Upul Chandika Hathurusingha is a former Sri Lankan cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-fast bowler....
and 90 from Mahela Jayawardene
Mahela Jayawardene
Denagamage Proboth Mahela de Silva Jayawardene , known as Mahela Jayawardene, is the former captain of the Sri Lankan cricket team. He is a specialist batsman who has a Test average of over 50, and an ODI average in the 30s...
. Jayawardene went on to claim a place in Sri Lanka's Test squad to face England.
Emirates Triangular Tournament
Sri Lanka played in a tri-series tournament with South Africa and England. Played in a round-robinRound-robin
The term round-robin was originally used to describe a document signed by multiple parties in a circle to make it more difficult to determine the order in which it was signed, thus preventing a ringleader from being identified...
format, all 3 teams played each other once, with the top two teams going through to a head-to-head final to decide the winner.
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Table key
P = Games playedW = Games won
L = Games lost
NR = Games with no result
T = Games tied
NRR = Net run rate
Net run rate
Net Run Rate is a statistic used in the sport of cricket. It is the most commonly used method of separating teams in one-day league competitions, effectively acting as the Cricket equivalent of "goal difference" in football....
Points system
Won = 2 pointsLost = 0 points
Tie or No result = 1 point
Standard net run rate rules applied.
Position deciders
The deciding factors, in order, on table position were:- Total points
- Head-to-head result
- Net run rate
Because England and Sri Lanka had the best run rates, they were ranked as the top two teams. England beat Sri Lanka and finished top of the group. South Africa's run rate meant they missed out on the final, despite having beaten England, and that a better run rate than Sri Lanka would have put them top of the table.
Final
Only Test match
Records
Muttiah Muralitharan claimed what was, at the time, a career best 9/65 in the second innings - a record he has only bettered on one occasion, against Zimbabwe in 2002 - and was the 8th best bowling in a Test match innings at the time, but has slipped one place to 9th. The 16/220 claimed in the match is the 5th best bowling record in a match, a position it has stood in since the match.John Crawley also claimed a Test career best of 156 not out.
See also
- South African cricket team in England in 1998South African cricket team in England in 1998The South African cricket team toured England in the 1998 season to play a five-match Test series against England.England won the series 2-1 with two matches drawn after being 1-0 behind with only the last two matches to play....
- 1998 Emirates Triangular Tournament1998 Emirates Triangular TournamentThe Emirates Triangular Tournament was a cricket tri-series involving touring nations Sri Lanka and South Africa against each other and hosts England, in the 1998 international season...