English national cricket team in Sri Lanka in the 2000/01 season

The tour of the English national cricket team to Sri Lanka in the 2000/01 season took place from February 5 to March 27, 2001. The international cricket tour was part of the 2000/01 international cricket season and included three test matches and three ODIs . England won the Test Series 2–1 while Sri Lanka won the ODI Series 3–0.

prehistory

Sri Lanka previously did a tour in New Zealand , England in Pakistan . The last meeting of the two teams on a tour took place in England in the 1998 season .

Stages

The following stages were planned as venues for the tour.

Colombo (RPS) Colombo (SSC) Dambulla bile Kandy

Tour venues

Stadion	city	capacity	Games
R. Premadasa Stadium (RPS)	Colombo	35,000	2. ODI
Sinhalese Sports Club Ground (SSC)	Colombo	10,000	3rd test; 3. ODI
Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium	Dambulla	16,800	1. ODI
Galle International Stadium	bile	35,000	1st test
Muttiah Muralitharan International Cricket Stadium	Kandy	35,000	2nd test

Squad

England named their squad on December 18, 2000. Sri Lanka named their test squad on January 21 and their ODI squad on March 21, 2001.

test		ODI
Sri Lanka	England	Sri Lanka	England
Sanath Jayasuriya ( K ) Russell Arnold Marvan Atapattu Aravinda de Silva Kumar Dharmasena Tillakaratne Dilshan Dilhara Fernando Dinuka Hettiarachchi Mahela Jayawardene Muttiah Muralitharan Kumar Sangakkara ( wk ) Chaminda Vaas Nuwan Zoysa	Nasser Hussain ( K ) Mike Atherton Andy Caddick Robert Croft Ashley Giles Darren Gough Graeme Hick Alec Stewart ( wk ) Graham Thorpe Marcus Trescothick Michael Vaughan Craig White	Sanath Jayasuriya ( K ) Russell Arnold Marvan Atapattu Indika de Saram Kumar Dharmasena Mahela Jayawardene Romesh Kaluwitharana ( wk ) Muttiah Muralitharan Thilan Samaraweera Kumar Sangakkara Chaminda Vaas Nuwan Zoysa	Graham Thorpe ( K ) Andy Caddick Robert Croft Mark Ealham Andrew Flintoff Ashley Giles Darren Gough Graeme Hick Nick Knight Alan Mullally Alec Stewart ( wk ) Marcus Trescothick Michael Vaughan Craig White

Tour matches

February 5-6 scorecard	Moratuwa	England XI 252 (82.3) & 24-2 (7)	-	Sri Lanka Colts XI 232-8d (75.2)
		draw

February 8-11 scorecard	Colombo	England XI 329 (94.1) & 261-9d (76.3)	-	Sri Lanka Board President's XI 265 (81.2) & 160 (74.2)
		England XI wins with 165 runs

February 15-18 Scorecard	Matara	Sri Lanka Board President's XI 253 (77.4) & 234-7 (68)	-	England XI 418-7d (160)
		draw

March 3 scorecard	Kurunegala	Sri Lanka Colts XI 249-7 (50)	-	England XI 250-2 (43.4)
		England XI wins with 8 wickets

March 21 scorecard	Colombo	England XI 279 (47.4)	-	Sri Lanka Board President's XI 228-9 (50)
		England XI wins with 51 runs

Test matches

First test in bile

February 22-26 Scorecard	bile	Sri Lanka 470-5d (170)	-	England 253 (132.3) & 189 (110.3) (f / o)
		Sri Lanka wins with one innings and 28 runs

Second test in Kandy

March 7-11 Scorecard	Kandy	Sri Lanka 297 (86) & 250 (89.1)	-	England 387 (157) & 161-7 (71.1)
		England wins with 3 wickets

Sri Lankan captain Sanath Jayasuriya was fined for openly showing dissenting opinion (he had thrown his helmet in an advertising banner) to the referee and was further suspended from the game. The wicket that led to this reaction was very controversial and so this was one of the occasions on which the refereeing system was reformed, along with the Dennes incident .

Third test in Colombo (SSC)

March 15-19 Scorecard	Colombo	Sri Lanka 241 (101.1) & 81 (28.1)	-	England 249 (109.5) & 74-6 (24.3)
		England wins with 4 wickets

One-day internationals

First ODI in Dambulla

March 23 scorecard	Dambulla	England 143 (48.5)	-	Sri Lanka 144-5 (40.5)
		Sri Lanka wins with 5 wickets

Second ODI in Colombo (RPS)

March 25 scorecard	Colombo	Sri Lanka 226-6 (50)	-	England 160 (45)
		Sri Lanka wins with 66 runs

Third ODI in Colombo (SSC)

March 27 scorecard	Colombo	England 165-9 (50)	-	Sri Lanka 166-0 (33.5)
		Sri Lanka wins with 10 wickets

statistics

The following cricket statistics were obtained on this tour.

Testing
Batting
player	team	Games	Innings	Runs	Average	HS	100s	50s
Graham Thorpe	England	3	6th	269	67.25	113 *	1	1
Mahela Jayawardene	Sri Lanka	3	5	262	52.40	101	1	2
Marcus Trescothick	England	3	6th	248	41.33	122	1	1
Marvan Atapattu	Sri Lanka	3	5	219	54.75	201 *	1	0
Kumar Sangakkara	Sri Lanka	3	5	215	43.00	95	0	2
bowling
player	team	Games	Overs	Wickets	Average	BBI	5W	10W
Sanath Jayasuriya	Sri Lanka	3	126.4	16	14.75	4/24	0	0
Chaminda Vaas	Sri Lanka	3	110.5	16	15.25	6/73	1	0
Darren Gough	England	3	82	14th	19.57	4/50	0	0
Muttiah Muralitharan	Sri Lanka	3	236	14th	30.07	4/66	0	0
Andy Caddick	England	3	87.1	9	25.00	4/55	0	0
Robert Croft	England	3	111	9	28.66	4/56	0	0

ODIs
Batting
player	team	Games	Innings	Runs	Average	HS	100s	50s
Marvan Atapattu	Sri Lanka	3	3	150	75.00	57	0	2
Romesh Kaluwitharana	Sri Lanka	3	3	122	61.00	102 *	1	0
Mahela Jayawardene	Sri Lanka	3	2	104	104.00	101 *	1	0
Alec Stewart	England	3	3	90	30.00	55	0	1
Graham Thorpe	England	3	3	74	37.00	62 *	0	1
bowling
player	team	Games	Overs	Wickets	Average	BBI	5W	10W
Muttiah Muralitharan	Sri Lanka	3	28.5	7th	9.85	4/29	0	0
Chaminda Vaas	Sri Lanka	3	25th	5	12.20	3/13	0	0
Nuwan Zoysa	Sri Lanka	3	21st	5	18.20	2/22	0	0
Kumar Dharmasena	Sri Lanka	3	27	4th	21.00	2/31	0	0
Andy Caddick	England	2	18th	3	26.33	2/42	0	0
Alan Mullally	England	3	26th	3	37.00	2/37	0	0

Player of the Series

The following players were honored as Player of the Series .

series	Player of the Series
test	Darren Gough
ODI	Marvan Atapattu

Player of the Match

The following players were recognized as Player of the Match .

game	Player of the Match
1st test	Marvan Atapattu
2nd test	Darren Gough
3rd test	Graham Thorpe
1. ODI	Muttiah Muralitharan
2. ODI	Mahela Jayawardene
3. ODI	Romesh Kaluwitharana

Web links

• The series on espncricinfo.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rick Eyre: Salisbury dropped, Jason Brown shock selection in England squad ( English ) Cricinfo. December 19, 2000. Retrieved September 11, 2016.
2. ↑ Squads selected for England tour ( English ) Cricinfo. January 21, 2001. Retrieved September 11, 2016.
3. ↑ Charlie Austin: No place for de Silva as Sri Lanka name 15 for one-day series ( English ) Cricinfo. March 21, 2001. Retrieved September 11, 2016.
4. ↑ Suspended ban for Sri Lankan captain ( English ) Cricinfo. March 9, 2001. Retrieved September 11, 2016.
5. ↑ Captains past and present urge ICC to tackle umpiring issue ( English ) Cricinfo. March 11, 2001. Retrieved September 11, 2016.
6. ↑ Subba Row joins umpiring reform team ( English ) BBC. March 26, 2001. Retrieved September 5, 2016.
7. ↑ Records / England in Sri Lanka Test Series, 2000/01 / Most runs ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved August 1, 2016.
8. ↑ Records / England in Sri Lanka Test Series, 2000/01 / Most wickets ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved August 1, 2016.
9. ↑ Records / England in Sri Lanka ODI Series, 2000/01 / Most runs ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved August 1, 2016.
10. ↑ Records / England in Sri Lanka ODI Series, 2000/01 / Most wickets ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved August 1, 2016.