Sri Lanka vs England, 2018: Only T20I – Statistical Highlights

England won both the limited-overs trophies on this tour of Sri Lanka as they defeated the hosts by 30 runs in the one-off T20I on Saturday. Jason Roy capitalized the chances he was offered by the Sri Lankan fielders to score a 36-ball 69 with four fours and six maximums. His knock was crucial in powering England’s total to 187/8 in the 20 overs. Sri Lanka kept losing the wickets and never looked like chasing the target. Thisara Perera’s late cameo, a 31-ball 57 helped the hosts to finish on 157 and reduce the margin of defeat to 30 runs.

All the major stats and numbers that were recorded during the one-off T20I in Sri Lanka:

4/19 – Joe Denly became the first England spinner to claim a four-wicket haul in T20I cricket. Adil Rashid’s figures of 3/11 in this game are the second best bowling figures by an England spinner in a T20I game.

Denly’s figures are the 2nd best by any bowler for England in T20I format behind Ravi Bopara’s 4/10 in 2011 The Oval T20I against the Windies.

7/30 – Joe Denly and Adil Rashid’s collective bowling figures of 7/30 are the best by leg-spinners in a T20I inning. India’s Yuzvendra Chahal and Amit Mishra collectively recorded figures of 7/48 in the 2017 Bangalore T20I against England.

16 – Sri Lanka now has lost 16 T20I matches at the R. Premadasa Stadium in Colombo. They played 20 T20Is at this venue winning in four of them. Only Zimbabwe (18) at Harare have lost more T20I games at a venue.

79 – Number of consecutive T20I matches that Joe Denly missed since his last appearance in February 2010. These are the most consecutive number of T20Is a player missed for his team. He thus broke the record of his fellow team-mate Liam Plunkett who missed 74 consecutive T20Is between 2006 and 2015.

384 – Denly missed 384 consecutive International matches since his last appearance for England in a T20I game in 2010. These are the second most successive matches any player has in International cricket.

Windies’ Riyad Emrit missed 396 consecutive Internationals between 2007 and 2018. England’s Gareth Batty held the previous record as he missed 337 consecutive games between 2009 and 2016.

1000 – Sri Lankan openers Niroshan Dickwella and Kusal Mendis completed 1000 runs in the T20I format in this game. Dickwella reached the milestone when he went past three while Mendis got there when he scored his first run.

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