Sri Lankan Cricket Team In England In 1998
| Sri Lanka cricket team in England in 1998 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Teams | ||||||||||||||||
| England | Sri Lanka | |||||||||||||||
| Captains | ||||||||||||||||
| Alec Stewart | Arjuna Ranatunga | |||||||||||||||
| Most runs | ||||||||||||||||
| John Crawley (170) Graeme Hick (107) Mark Ramprakash (93) |
Sanath Jayasuriya (237) Aravinda de Silva (152) Arjuna Ranatunga (51) |
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| Most wickets | ||||||||||||||||
| Angus Fraser (3) Darren Gough (2) Ben Hollioake (2) Dominic Cork (2) |
Muttiah Muralitharan (16) Pramodya Wickramasinghe (2) Suresh Perera (1) |
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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.
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