Sri Lanka 232 for 9 (Mathews 85*, Avishka 49, Kusal Mendis 46, Wood 3-40, Archer 3-52) beat England 212 (Stokes 82*, Root 57, Malinga 4-43, Dhananjaya 3-32) by 20 runs.
Lasith Malinga summoned a vintage spell, low maintenance off-spinner D de Silva struck multiple times in 9 balls, A Mathews scored a difficult 85 not out, and Avishka Fernando made a romping 49 to stun competition top choices England and give Sri Lanka enough motivation to dream of a spot in the semi-finals.
There were different legends too for SL. N Pradeep bowled some inswingers with the ball and after that returned for the last over to have last man M Wood feathering behind to deny B Stokes, who stayed unbeaten - and crushed - on 82 off 89 balls. I Udana upheld up his incredible pace varieties with two sharp gets - one off his very own bowling and the other at the edge of the limit. K Mendis (46), like A Mathews, had delivered his most astounding score of the competition to pull Sri Lanka to a crude 232 for 9. The majority of this brought about Sri Lanka honorably protecting that pitiful aggregate against a compelling England side that had topped 300 of every eight of their last nine ODI innings. This, notwithstanding some late beast, blows from Stokes.
He undermined an escape even after England were decreased to 186 for 9 in the 44th over. He cultivated the strike and jump-started, viciously trucking Udana for consecutive sixes and after that hitting the returning Pradeep for consecutive fours. Stirs found a solitary off the fifth chunk of the 47th over and Wood expected to see off only one ball. Notwithstanding, it wasn't to be as Pradeep's close ideal full ball in the channel touched the most slender of outside edges and topped an amazing rebound for the ragtag, apparently depressed group.
Malinga had hit with the second bundle of the pursuit to stick neighborhood chap Jonny Bairstow lbw for a duck and, very little later, sent James Vince back got at slip. He would come back to prepare some old enchantment, expelling the other neighborhood kid Joe Root for 57 and Jos Buttler for 10 in progressive overs. While Root was late onto a look and was snaffled down the leg side, the ball that bested J Buttler was a L Malinga unique: an inch-flawless leg-stump yorker that burst under his bat and had him lbw.
Similarly, as Sri Lanka increased the weight on Eng, J Mendis bowled a half-volley and a filthy long-jump that was smoked into the stands by B Stokes. Enter D De Silva. Exit M Ali. The batsman had simply aeronautically trudge cleared an offbreak only far from the compass of profound midwicket, yet despite everything, he wandered another huge pass over the following ball and selected Udana at long-off for 16. At that point, in his next finished, Dhananjaya brought down both Chris Woakes and Adil Rashid to leave England at 178 for 8. It wound up 186 for 9 when Udana deceived Jofra Archer with his back-of-the-hand variety.
Feeds at that point went blast, however, Wood, who had trusted at the midway imprint that England probably won't require him with the bat, couldn't hold tight with him. Had he securely arranged that ball from Pradeep, England would have just needed to manage the change bowlers, with L Malinga having bowled out as well.
An irritated did not appear to be likely when Root was unflappable in the early 50% of the pursuit, playing rate shots on a moderate, grippy Headingley pitch. He got breaking with a tranquil punch behind point, however, Malinga and Pradeep didn't enable him to prop up with comparative familiarity. Root, however, soldiered to his fifth fifty or more score in six innings this World Cup. In any case, it was his expulsion that set off an all-out breakdown.
The sun was sparkling in its full brilliance toward the beginning of the day, and Avishka played progressively magnificent back-foot drives and pulls that had previous Sri Lankan beautician Kumar Sangakarra spouting, "He has timing, this kid!" on TV editorial. Toxophilite was clubbed so far into the stands past square leg that the ball skipped off a railing and vanished out of the ground. Everything considered Avishka took Archer for 24 off 15 balls. Be that as it may, when Wood burrowed one short and wide outside off, he neither played an upper-cut nor a slope and wrapped up essentially skimming the ball into the lap of profound third man.
A Mathews and K Mendis then got together for a 71-run stand - the most noteworthy in the game. A Mathews took 13 balls to get off the imprint and 39 to discover the limit, yet Kusal Mendis scored at a brisker cut at the opposite end as they kept Moeen and Rashid under control until the 30th over. Rashid, who is nursing a shoulder issue and taking infusions for it, all of a sudden rediscovered some zip and evacuated Kusal Mendis and Jeevan Mendis off progressive balls to decrease Sri Lanka to 133 for 5.
With the innings spiraling wild, Mathews received an increasingly cautious methodology and taken care of further to give Sri Lanka a shot at batting out their 50 overs. Bowman and Wood's additional pace easily took care of the lower request, however, they couldn't discover a route past Mathews.
He pussyfooted to an 84-ball 50 years - the joint-slowest in this competition close by Afghanistan's Hashmatullah Shahidi's exertion. In any case, it wasn't until the last over of the innings that Mathews released a shot in resentment. His hearty leg-side club off Archer aided Sri Lanka to achieve 232, which demonstrated enough at last.
Sri Lanka 232 for 9 (Mathews 85*, Avishka 49, Kusal Mendis 46, Wood 3-40, Archer 3-52) beat England 212 (Stokes 82*, Root 57, Malinga 4-43, Dhananjaya 3-32) by 20 runs.
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