English cricket team in Sri Lanka in 1992–93

English cricket team in Sri Lanka in 1992–93
English cricket team in Sri Lanka in 1992–93
	Sri Lanka
Dates	10 March 1993 – 20 March 1993
Captains	Arjuna Ranatunga
Test series
Result	Sri Lanka won the 1-match series 1–0
Most runs	Hashan Tillakaratne (129)
Most wickets	Jayananda Warnaweera (8)
Player of the series	Hashan Tillakaratne (SL)
One Day International series
Results	Sri Lanka won the 2-match series 2–0
Most runs	Aravinda de Silva (109)
Most wickets	Sanath Jayasuriya (8)

Squads[]

Tests		ODIs
England	Sri Lanka	England	Sri Lanka
Alec Stewart (c)(wk) Robin Smith Mike Atherton Mike Gatting Graeme Hick Neil Fairbrother Chris Lewis John Emburey Paul Jarvis Phil Tufnell Devon Malcolm	Arjuna Ranatunga (c) Ashley de Silva (wk) Roshan Mahanama Chandika Hathurusingha Asanka Gurusinha Aravinda de Silva Hashan Tillakaratne Champaka Ramanayake Sanath Jayasuriya Jayananda Warnaweera Muthiah Muralidaran	Alec Stewart (c)(wk) Robin Smith Graeme Hick Neil Fairbrother Mike Gatting Chris Lewis Dermot Reeve Phil DeFreitas John Emburey Paul Jarvis Devon Malcolm Ian Salisbury Paul Taylor	Arjuna Ranatunga (c) Ashley de Silva (wk) Roshan Mahanama Chandika Hathurusingha Asanka Gurusinha Aravinda de Silva Hashan Tillakaratne Dulip Liyanage Ruwan Kalpage Champaka Ramanayake Pramodya Wickramasinghe Muthiah Muralidaran Sanath Jayasuriya

Test series[]

Only Test[]

13 – 18 March
Scorecard

England	v	Sri Lanka
380 (130.1 overs) Robin Smith 128 (338) Jayananda Warnaweera 4/90 (40.1 overs)		469 (156.5 overs) Hashan Tillakaratne 93* (208) Chris Lewis 4/66 (31 overs)
228 (66 overs) John Emburey 59 (151) Jayananda Warnaweera 4/98 (25 overs)		142/5 (42.4 overs) Hashan Tillakaratne 36* (62) Phil Tufnell 2/34 (7.4 overs)

Sri Lanka won by 5 wickets
Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo
Umpires: K. T. Francis (SL) and T. M. Samarasinghe (SL)
Player of the match: Hashan Tillakaratne (SL)

England won the toss and elected to bat
Ashley de Silva (SL) made his debut
Paul Jarvis (Eng) made his last appearance in Test matches.
Muttiah Muralitharan achieved his best innings bowling analysis in Test matches in the England first innings (previous best was 4-134).
Chris Lewis reached 50 wickets in Test matches when he dismissed Roshan Mahanama, his 1st wicket in the Sri Lanka second innings.

ODI series[]

1st ODI[]

10 March
14:30 (D/N)
Scorecard

Sri Lanka 250/5 (47 overs)	v	England 170 (36.1 overs)
Hashan Tillakaratne 66* (65) Devon Malcolm 3/32 (7 overs)		Neil Fairbrother 34 (55) Ruwan Kalpage 3/34 (8 overs)

Sri Lanka won by 32 runs (faster scoring rate)
R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo
Umpires: K. T. Francis (SL) and Selliah Ponnadurai (SL)
Player of the match: Hashan Tillakaratne (SL)

Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat.
Sri Lanka's innings was reduced to 47 overs.
England's innings was reduced to 38 overs with a target of 203.

2nd ODI[]

20 March
10:30
Scorecard

England 180 (48.5 overs)	v	Sri Lanka 183/2 (36.1 overs)
Graeme Hick 36 (44) Sanath Jayasuriya 6/29 (9.5 overs)		Aravinda de Silva 75* (68) Ian Salisbury 2/36 (4 overs)

Sri Lanka won by 8 wickets
Tyronne Fernando Stadium, Moratuwa
Umpires: B. C. Cooray (SL) and T. M. Samarasinghe (SL)
Player of the match: Sanath Jayasuriya (SL)

Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to field.
Paul Taylor made his debut.

Records and statistics[]

Batting[]

Test
Player	Nat	Matches	Innings	Runs	NO	Ave.	SR	HS	100	50	4s	6s
Robin Smith		1	2	163	0	81.50	39.85	128	1	0	24	0
Hashan Tillakaratne		1	2	129	2	-	47.77	93*	0	1	15	0
Arjuna Ranatunga		1	2	99	0	49.50	56.57	64	0	1	9	1
Graeme Hick		1	2	94	0	47.00	67.14	68	0	1	9	3
Aravinda de Silva		1	2	87	0	43.50	52.72	80	0	1	7	2
ODI
Player	Nat	Matches	Innings	Runs	NO	Ave.	SR	HS	100	50	4s	6s
Aravinda de Silva		2	2	109	1	109.00	99.09	75*	0	1	8	5
Chandika Hathurusingha		2	2	76	0	38.00	59.37	43	0	0	9	0
Graeme Hick		2	2	67	0	33.50	77.90	36	0	0	11	0
Hashan Tillakaratne		2	2	66	1	-	101.53	66*	0	1	6	0
Neil Fairbrother		2	2	55	0	27.50	53.92	34	0	0	2	1
Source: Cricinfo^[1]^[2]

Bowling[]

Test
Player	Nat	Matches	Innings	Wickets	Overs	Runs	Econ.	Ave.	BBI	5WI	10WI
Jayananda Warnaweera		1	2	8	65.1	188	2.88	23.50	4/90	0	0
Chris Lewis		1	2	5	39.0	87	2.23	17.40	4/66	0	0
Muthiah Muralidaran		1	2	5	61.0	173	2.83	34.60	4/118	0	0
John Emburey		1	2	4	48.0	165	3.43	41.25	2/48	0	0
Paul Jarvis		1	2	3	33.5	90	2.66	30.00	3/76	0	0
Phil Tufnell		1	2	3	40.4	142	3.49	47.33	2/34	0	0
ODI
Player	Nat	Matches	Innings	Wickets	Overs	Runs	Econ.	Ave.	BBI	4WI	5WI
Sanath Jayasuriya		2	2	8	16.5	74	4.39	9.25	6/29	0	1
Ruwan Kalpage		2	2	4	18.0	61	3.38	15.25	3/34	0	0
Pramodya Wickramasinghe		2	2	3	14.1	44	3.10	14.66	2/21	0	0
Ian Salisbury		1	1	2	4.0	36	9.00	18.00	2/36	0	0
Source: Cricinfo^[3]^[4]

External links[]

Series home

References[]

^ "England in Sri Lanka Test Match, 1992/93 Cricket Team Records & Stats | ESPNcricinfo.com". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2021-11-20.
^ "England in Sri Lanka ODI Series, 1992/93 Cricket Team Records & Stats | ESPNcricinfo.com". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2021-11-20.
^ "England in Sri Lanka Test Match, 1992/93 Cricket Team Records & Stats | ESPNcricinfo.com". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2021-11-20.
^ "England in Sri Lanka ODI Series, 1992/93 Cricket Team Records & Stats | ESPNcricinfo.com". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2021-11-20.

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[1] "England in Sri Lanka Test Match, 1992/93 Cricket Team Records & Stats | ESPNcricinfo.com". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2021-11-20.

[2] "England in Sri Lanka ODI Series, 1992/93 Cricket Team Records & Stats | ESPNcricinfo.com". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2021-11-20.

[3] "England in Sri Lanka Test Match, 1992/93 Cricket Team Records & Stats | ESPNcricinfo.com". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2021-11-20.

[4] "England in Sri Lanka ODI Series, 1992/93 Cricket Team Records & Stats | ESPNcricinfo.com". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2021-11-20.

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