2014, Sri Lanka win their first series victory in England
On this day June 24, 2014, Sri Lanka their first series victory in England at at Leeds. Sri Lanka won a Test, and a series, with a ball to spare.
Shaminda Eranga bowled the last over of the day and with a ball to spare Eranga dismissed James Anderson and give Sri Lanka to first series victory in England. Sri Lanka won by 100 runs.
Sri Lankan captain Angelo Mathews became the Player of the match by scoring 160 runs in 2nd Innings. Mathews became the Player of The Series along with James Anderson.
Angelo Mathews took 4 wickets in 1st Innings and Dhammika Prasad took 5 wickets in 2nd Innings. Liam Plunkett took his maiden five-wicket haul in Tests and his overall match figures of 9/176 were his best in Test cricket. In his second test, Moeen Ali scored his maiden century in Tests.
Sri Lanka not only won Test series, also the winning T20 and one-day series on the tour.
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