England v Sri Lanka, London

England 427/10 & 251/10

Sri Lanka 196/10 & 292/10

England won by 190 runs

England v Sri Lanka 2024 · 2nd Test Lord's, London, London 29 Aug 2024 – 1 Sept 2024

How hard each side found the batting

Uneven — Sri Lanka had it far tougher than England.

England

1.09× +9%

Sri Lanka

0.88× -12%

harder to scoretypicaleasier

The lead

England's margin flattered them — conditions did some of the work.

Who won it · by value

Runs, and what they were worth in these conditions

Joe Root England

246 +349

AAP Atkinson England

132 +215

PHKD Mendis Sri Lanka

78 +171

LD Chandimal Sri Lanka

81 +93

RMMP Rathnayake Sri Lanka

62 +76

Best bowling

Top match figures

AAP Atkinson5/62

AM Fernando5/102

AM Fernando3/52

CBRLS Kumara3/53

Top score

143

Joe Root · England

Biggest stand

7th wkt · England

Worst collapse

3–30

3 wkts for 30 · England

Match facts

TossSri Lanka, field

ResultEngland won by 190 runs

Length4 days

England

427 /10 (102.0 ov)

Batter		R	B	4s	6s	SR
BM Duckett	c CBRLS Kumara b NGRP Jayasuriya	40	47	4	0	85.11
DW Lawrence	c KNM Fernando b CBRLS Kumara	9	22	2	0	40.91
OJ Pope	c DM de Silva b AM Fernando	1	10	0	0	10.00
Joe Root	c P Nissanka b RMMP Rathnayake	143	206	18	0	69.42
Harry Brook	lbw b AM Fernando	33	45	5	0	73.33
JL Smith	c KNM Fernando b RMMP Rathnayake	21	57	4	0	36.84
CR Woakes	c AM Fernando b CBRLS Kumara	6	27	1	0	22.22
AAP Atkinson	c RMMP Rathnayake b AM Fernando	118	115	14	4	102.61
MJ Potts	c KNM Fernando b AM Fernando	21	43	4	0	48.84
OP Stone	c PHKD Mendis b AM Fernando	15	31	1	0	48.39
Shoaib Bashir*	not out	7	10	1	0	70.00

Extras 13 (b 8, lb 4, nb 1)

Total 427/10 (102.0 ov)

Bowler	O	M	R	W	Econ
AM Fernando	24.0	2	102	5	4.25
RMMP Rathnayake	23.0	2	89	2	3.87
CBRLS Kumara	23.0	2	101	2	4.39
NGRP Jayasuriya	29.0	2	96	1	3.31
PHKD Mendis	3.0	0	27	0	9.00

Fall of wickets

1-33 (DW Lawrence, 6.5)·2-42 (OJ Pope, 9.2)·3-82 (BM Duckett, 18.4)·4-130 (Harry Brook, 30.5)·5-192 (JL Smith, 48.6)·6-216 (CR Woakes, 58.6)·7-308 (Joe Root, 77.3)·8-393 (MJ Potts, 93.3)·9-420 (AAP Atkinson, 99.3)·10-427 (OP Stone, 101.6)

Sri Lanka

196 /10 (55.3 ov)

Batter		R	B	4s	6s	SR
KNM Fernando	b CR Woakes	7	15	1	0	46.67
FDM Karunaratne	b OP Stone	7	26	1	0	26.92
P Nissanka	c MJ Potts b OP Stone	12	18	1	0	66.67
AD Mathews	b MJ Potts	22	36	3	0	61.11
LD Chandimal	c DW Lawrence b AAP Atkinson	23	33	3	0	69.70
DM de Silva	c Harry Brook b MJ Potts	0	3	0	0	0.00
PHKD Mendis	c CR Woakes b AAP Atkinson	74	120	8	3	61.67
RMMP Rathnayake	c JL Smith b CR Woakes	19	14	4	0	135.71
NGRP Jayasuriya	b Shoaib Bashir	8	46	0	0	17.39
CBRLS Kumara	run out (OJ Pope)	0	22	0	0	0.00
AM Fernando*	not out	1	1	0	0	100.00

Extras 23 (b 8, lb 13, w 1, nb 1)

Total 196/10 (55.3 ov)

Bowler	O	M	R	W	Econ
CR Woakes	13.0	4	21	2	1.62
AAP Atkinson	8.3	2	40	2	4.71
OP Stone	13.0	0	70	2	5.38
MJ Potts	11.0	4	19	2	1.73
Shoaib Bashir	7.0	1	21	1	3.00
Joe Root	3.0	0	4	0	1.33

Fall of wickets

1-18 (KNM Fernando, 6.2)·2-32 (FDM Karunaratne, 9.1)·3-35 (P Nissanka, 9.6)·4-83 (AD Mathews, 20.1)·5-83 (DM de Silva, 20.4)·6-87 (LD Chandimal, 23.1)·7-118 (RMMP Rathnayake, 28.6)·8-153 (NGRP Jayasuriya, 43.6)·9-195 (CBRLS Kumara, 54.6)·10-196 (PHKD Mendis, 55.3)

England

251 /10 (54.3 ov)

Batter		R	B	4s	6s	SR
BM Duckett	c AD Mathews b RMMP Rathnayake	24	38	2	0	63.16
DW Lawrence	c KNM Fernando b CBRLS Kumara	7	12	1	0	58.33
OJ Pope	c NGRP Jayasuriya b AM Fernando	17	38	1	0	44.74
Joe Root	c PHKD Mendis b CBRLS Kumara	103	121	10	0	85.12
Harry Brook	c KNM Fernando b NGRP Jayasuriya	37	36	4	1	102.78
JL Smith	lbw b NGRP Jayasuriya	26	34	3	0	76.47
CR Woakes	c P Nissanka b RMMP Rathnayake	5	10	1	0	50.00
AAP Atkinson	c CBRLS Kumara b AM Fernando	14	12	2	0	116.67
MJ Potts	c LD Chandimal b AM Fernando	2	9	0	0	22.22
OP Stone	c P Nissanka b CBRLS Kumara	7	16	1	0	43.75
Shoaib Bashir*	not out	1	2	0	0	50.00

Extras 8 (lb 5, w 2, nb 1)

Total 251/10 (54.3 ov)

Bowler	O	M	R	W	Econ
AM Fernando	13.0	0	52	3	4.00
CBRLS Kumara	12.3	0	53	3	4.24
RMMP Rathnayake	9.0	1	36	2	4.00
NGRP Jayasuriya	20.0	2	105	2	5.25

Fall of wickets

1-22 (DW Lawrence, 5.1)·2-36 (BM Duckett, 10.3)·3-69 (OJ Pope, 18.1)·4-127 (Harry Brook, 27.4)·5-171 (JL Smith, 37.1)·6-196 (CR Woakes, 40.5)·7-221 (AAP Atkinson, 44.5)·8-227 (MJ Potts, 46.6)·9-250 (OP Stone, 52.6)·10-251 (Joe Root, 54.3)

Sri Lanka

292 /10 (86.4 ov)

Batter		R	B	4s	SR
KNM Fernando	c Joe Root b AAP Atkinson	13	25	1	52.00
FDM Karunaratne	c JL Smith b OP Stone	55	129	7	42.64
P Nissanka	c Joe Root b OP Stone	14	24	3	58.33
NGRP Jayasuriya	c Harry Brook b CR Woakes	4	41	0	9.76
AD Mathews	c CR Woakes b Shoaib Bashir	36	91	3	39.56
LD Chandimal	c DW Lawrence b AAP Atkinson	58	62	11	93.55
DM de Silva	b AAP Atkinson	50	71	7	70.42
PHKD Mendis	c BM Duckett b AAP Atkinson	4	5	0	80.00
RMMP Rathnayake	c JL Smith b AAP Atkinson	43	56	7	76.79
CBRLS Kumara	c OP Stone b CR Woakes	10	13	2	76.92
AM Fernando*	not out	0	3	0	0.00

Extras 5 (b 4, lb 1)

Total 292/10 (86.4 ov)

Bowler	O	M	R	W	Econ
CR Woakes	19.4	8	46	2	2.34
AAP Atkinson	16.0	4	62	5	3.88
Shoaib Bashir	23.0	1	78	1	3.39
Joe Root	4.0	1	9	0	2.25
MJ Potts	11.0	2	34	0	3.09
OP Stone	12.0	0	56	2	4.67
DW Lawrence	1.0	0	2	0	2.00

Fall of wickets

1-19 (KNM Fernando, 7.1)·2-43 (P Nissanka, 13.6)·3-60 (NGRP Jayasuriya, 26.2)·4-115 (FDM Karunaratne, 46.4)·5-174 (AD Mathews, 58.5)·6-192 (LD Chandimal, 65.1)·7-200 (PHKD Mendis, 67.2)·8-273 (DM de Silva, 83.1)·9-288 (RMMP Rathnayake, 85.3)·10-292 (CBRLS Kumara, 86.4)