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Malinda Pushpakumara the left-arm spinner also had an outstanding match and was one of Sri Lanka A’s match winners, taking 8 wkts in England’a ‘s first innings and five in the second. Amongst the batsmen, Liam Livingstone was solid in both innings for England A; while Dimuth Karunaratne’s double-century and wkt-keper batsman Sadeera Samarawickrama‘s 185 enabled Sri lanka A to marshalle a huge first innings score of 548 urns. Despite this the England second innings acheivment and the time-limits resulted ina tight finish with Lanak scrapping home at 90 runs for 7 wkts.

Sadeera Rashen posing for a portrait at Red Bull Campus Cricket in Dehradun, India on 18 October 2015

SCORECARD

	England Lions 1st innings		R	B	4s	6s	SR
	KK Jennings*	c Chandraguptha b Pushpakumara	44	52	7	0	84.61
	H Hameed	c Weerakkody b Fernando	15	39	2	0	38.46
	TP Alsop	c & b Pushpakumara	13	25	1	0	52.00
	T Westley	b Pushpakumara	68	105	11	0	64.76
	LS Livingstone	lbw b Pushpakumara	105	137	11	0	76.64
	BT Foakes†	c †Samarawickrama b Pushpakumara	30	55	4	0	54.54
	SM Curran	st †Samarawickrama b de Silva	14	34	1	0	41.17
	TK Curran	c de Silva b Pushpakumara	9	26	0	0	34.61
	TS Roland-Jones	lbw b Pushpakumara	7	22	1	0	31.81
	OP Rayner	c de Silva b Pushpakumara	19	36	1	0	52.77
	MJ Leach	not out	22	58	2	0	37.93
	Extras	(b 4, w 1, nb 2)	7
	Total	(all out; 97.5 overs)	353	(3.60 runs per over)

Fall of wickets 1-49 (Hameed, 10.4 ov), 2-76 (Alsop, 19.1 ov), 3-77 (Jennings, 19.6 ov), 4-187 (Westley, 48.6 ov), 5-270 (Foakes, 65.5 ov), 6-287 (Livingstone, 71.5 ov), 7-299 (SM Curran, 76.3 ov), 8-310 (Roland-Jones, 81.2 ov), 9-313 (TK Curran, 83.3 ov), 10-353 (Rayner, 97.5 ov)

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
	PLS Gamage	10	0	64	0	6.40	(2nb, 1w)
	AM Fernando	8	0	41	1	5.12
	PM Pushpakumara	40.5	3	127	8	3.11
	DM de Silva	19	4	44	1	2.31
	JDF Vandersay	17	1	61	0	3.58
	MDUS Jayasundera	3	0	12	0	4.00

	Sri Lanka A 1st innings		R	B	4s	6s	SR
	MDUS Jayasundera	c †Foakes b TK Curran	0	11	0	0	0.00
	FDM Karunaratne	c TK Curran b Rayner	212	319	23	0	66.45
	RK Chandraguptha	c †Foakes b Roland-Jones	1	5	0	0	20.00
	DS Weerakkody	lbw b Rayner	14	23	3	0	60.86
	S Samarawickrama†	lbw b Roland-Jones	185	233	26	0	79.39
	DM de Silva*	c †Foakes b Rayner	74	95	13	0	77.89
	ARS Silva	c & b Roland-Jones	2	17	0	0	11.76
	JDF Vandersay	c †Foakes b Leach	26	47	3	0	55.31
	PM Pushpakumara	c †Foakes b TK Curran	20	33	2	0	60.60
	PLS Gamage	not out	8	23	2	0	34.78
	AM Fernando	c Alsop b Rayner	1	6	0	0	16.66
	Extras	(b 4, lb 1)	5
	Total	(all out; 135.2 overs)	548	(4.04 runs per over)

Fall of wickets 1-6 (Jayasundera, 2.5 ov), 2-11 (Chandraguptha, 5.3 ov), 3-30 (Weerakkody, 12.2 ov), 4-345 (Samarawickrama, 83.1 ov), 5-476 (de Silva, 112.3 ov), 6-489 (Karunaratne, 116.2 ov), 7-489 (Silva, 117.5 ov), 8-527 (Pushpakumara, 127.2 ov), 9-539 (Vandersay, 132.5 ov), 10-548 (Fernando, 135.2 ov)

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
	TK Curran	22	3	74	2	3.36
	TS Roland-Jones	20	3	67	3	3.35
	SM Curran	11	0	68	0	6.18
	OP Rayner	48.2	8	164	4	3.39
	MJ Leach	18	1	97	1	5.38
	T Westley	9	0	33	0	3.66
	LS Livingstone	3	0	28	0	9.33
	KK Jennings	4	0	12	0	3.00

	England Lions 2nd innings		R	B	4s	6s	SR
	KK Jennings*	st †Samarawickrama b Pushpakumara	18	50	2	0	36.00
	H Hameed	c †Samarawickrama b Pushpakumara	14	23	3	0	60.86
	TP Alsop	lbw b de Silva	4	12	0	0	33.33
	T Westley	b Vandersay	12	21	2	0	57.14
	LS Livingstone	not out	140	225	16	1	62.22
	BT Foakes†	c de Silva b Pushpakumara	54	96	6	0	56.25
	SM Curran	c Karunaratne b Vandersay	1	3	0	0	33.33
	TK Curran	c Weerakkody b Pushpakumara	7	31	1	0	22.58
	TS Roland-Jones	lbw b de Silva	12	41	1	0	29.26
	OP Rayner	c Pushpakumara b Vandersay	10	24	1	0	41.66
	MJ Leach	b Pushpakumara	1	27	0	0	3.70
	Extras	(b 10, lb 1)	11
	Total	(all out; 92.1 overs)	284	(3.08 runs per over)

Fall of wickets 1-26 (Hameed, 7.4 ov), 2-31 (Alsop, 10.2 ov), 3-44 (Westley, 15.4 ov), 4-58 (Jennings, 20.4 ov), 5-165 (Foakes, 51.6 ov), 6-172 (SM Curran, 52.6 ov), 7-193 (TK Curran, 61.4 ov), 8-229 (Roland-Jones, 73.3 ov), 9-255 (Rayner, 79.4 ov), 10-284 (Leach, 92.1 ov)

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
	AM Fernando	2	0	9	0	4.50
	PM Pushpakumara	37.1	10	78	5	2.09
	PLS Gamage	7	0	28	0	4.00
	DM de Silva	16	3	47	2	2.93
	JDF Vandersay	27	0	102	3	3.77
	MDUS Jayasundera	3	1	9	0	3.00

	Sri Lanka A 2nd innings (target: 90 runs)		R	B	4s	6s	SR
	RK Chandraguptha	c †Foakes b TK Curran	8	9	1	0	88.88
	MDUS Jayasundera	c †Foakes b TK Curran	32	36	3	0	88.88
	DS Weerakkody	c Hameed b TK Curran	3	6	0	0	50.00
	S Samarawickrama†	lbw b TK Curran	8	8	1	0	100.00
	DM de Silva*	st †Foakes b Leach	23	13	2	1	176.92
	FDM Karunaratne	c †Foakes b Rayner	5	10	0	0	50.00
	ARS Silva	st †Foakes b Leach	2	7	0	0	28.57
	JDF Vandersay	not out	3	6	0	0	50.00
	PM Pushpakumara	not out	5	11	1	0	45.45
	Extras	(lb 1)	1
	Total	(7 wickets; 17.4 overs)	90	(5.09 runs per over)

Did not batPLS Gamage, AM Fernando

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Fall of wickets 1-12 (Chandraguptha, 2.3 ov), 2-18 (Weerakkody, 4.2 ov), 3-34 (Samarawickrama, 6.6 ov), 4-68 (Jayasundera, 11.2 ov), 5-78 (de Silva, 12.5 ov), 6-82 (Silva, 14.4 ov), 7-82 (Karunaratne, 15.1 ov)

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
	TK Curran	7	0	38	4	5.42
	TS Roland-Jones	5	0	31	0	6.20
	OP Rayner	2.4	0	17	1	6.37
	MJ Leach	3	1	3	2	1.00