ODI World Cup 2023: 3 bowlers with most wickets in the history of England vs Sri Lanka Clash

Today Bengaluru’s M Chinnaswamy is going to witness the high voltage game between England vs Sri Lanka so before the game let’s take a look at top bowlers in the history of this rivalry.

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England and Sri Lanka, both world champion teams, are struggling in this tournament. Both have won just one game out of four and now it’s the fight for their dignity in the table. England and Sri Lanka will face each other today at Chinnaswamy which is considered as the batter’s ground and it could be a high scoring game. Batters from both teams are in good form and it could be a great game. This rivalry has a rich history in terms of bowling. Both teams have produced many prominent bowlers. Both teams have played 78 games together in ODI history where England has won 38 out of them and Sri Lanka 36, and in 11 clashes of the world cup England beat Sri Lanka 6 times and the other left with five. Before taking a dig into today’s game let’s check out top bowlers from the history of both teams playing together. 

Lasith Malinga

Former Sri Lankan seamer Lasith Malinga has the most wickets in this list, he has 48 wickets in 30 innings with the average of 26.75 and economy of 5.28 and having one five wickets haul. Lasith malinga is one of the greatest bowlers in his era, he has the third most wickets in ODI for Sri Lanka. He is called as the king of hat tricks with having the most hat tricks (5) in international cricket. He has the fourth most  wickets(56) in World Cup history. Malinga is famous for his weird bowling which helped him to pick so many wickets in his career. 

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Dilhara Fernando

Fernando was one of the best bowlers Sri Lanka ever produced, he used bother English batters the most, he took 36 wickets in just 16 innings against England with the average of 20.05 and economy of 5.27. In the last game that he played against England in 2007 at Premadasa he took his only five wicket haul(6/27) which is the best bowling figure of his career. He played his last ODI game in 2012 against South Africa. Dilhara Fernando has played nine games in England and picked 16 wickets which shows that how much he loved to bowl in England’s surfaces. 

James Anderson 

James Anderson is the only English bowler among top five of this list that shows how good he is against Sri Lanka but unfortunately he does not play for England’s ODI team anymore. He has 34 wickets in 24 games with an average of 26.97 and economy of 4.51 which is best among these three. Anderson is one of the greatest fast bowlers of this modern era. He is the highest wicket taker for England in ODI and test, he took 269 wickets in 194 ODI games and 690 wickets in 183 matches. It will be interesting to see which England bowler will break his records in future.  

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