NEW DELHI: Defending champions England face Sri Lanka in the 25th Match of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2023 at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru on Thursday.
England and Sri Lanka have played 78 ODIs against each other. England have won 38 of those games, while Sri Lanka have won 36. One match between the teams was tied and 3 were No Result games.
Sri Lanka have won their last four World Cup matches against England - by two runs at North Sound on April 4, 2007; by 10 wickets at Colombo on March 26, 2011; by 9 wickets at Wellington on March 1, 2015 and by 20 runs at Leeds on June 21, 2019.
A fourth defeat in five games will shatter any realistic hopes of England sneaking into the semi-finals.
England's lone win came against equally hapless Bangladesh.
England have lost to New Zealand, suffered a shock defeat to Afghanistan and then slumped to a 229-run thrashing at the hands of South Africa, conceding their highest total in a one-day international of 399.
Injury-hit Sri Lanka have been just as underwhelming, also having just one win and three defeats.
Sri Lanka are coached by former England coach Chris Silverwood who left the role in 2022 after a 4-0 Ashes drubbing.
Veteran all-rounder Angelo Mathews initially missed out on selection for the tournament but was summoned to India to replace the injured Matheesha Pathirana.
Mathews is expected to go straight into the team to face England who have an identical record of one win and three defeats so far.
At the 2019 World Cup, Mathews played a starring role when Sri Lanka defeated England in Leeds, scoring an undefeated 85 in a 20-run victory.
Vic Marks' 5-39 is the best bowling performance and the only five-wicket haul in the World Cup games involving England and Sri Lanka.
Sri Lanka's Pathum Nissanka is 15 runs short of completing 1,000 runs in ODIs this year for the first time. He has 985 runs at an average of 44.77 in 24 innings.
Squads:
Sri Lanka: Pathum Nissanka, Kusal Perera, Kusal Mendis(w/c), Sadeera Samarawickrama, Charith Asalanka, Dhananjaya de Silva, Dushan Hemantha, Chamika Karunaratne, Maheesh Theekshana, Kasun Rajitha, Dilshan Madushanka, Angelo Mathews, Dimuth Karunaratne, Dushmantha Chameera, Lahiru Kumara, Dunith Wellalage
England: Jonny Bairstow, Dawid Malan, Joe Root, Ben Stokes, Harry Brook, Jos Buttler(w/c), David Willey, Adil Rashid, Chris Woakes, Gus Atkinson, Mark Wood, Brydon Carse, Moeen Ali, Liam Livingstone, Sam Curran
