Chasing 233 on an increasingly difficult pitch, the hosts were smothered by a brilliant Sri Lanka bowling performance in a compelling contest at Headingley. They had earlier restricted Sri Lanka to 232-9, with Angelo Mathews' painstaking 85 proving to be a match-winning innings. Sri Lanka climb to fifth, only two points behind England, their unlikely hopes of reaching the semi-finals still alive. When Sri Lanka called for a review that revealed Root was caught down the leg side off Malinga, England unravelled. "We had a couple of good individual performances but Sri Lanka thoroughly deserved to win.

Source: BBC June 21, 2019 17:28 UTC