English cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2011–12

The England cricket team toured Sri Lanka from 26 March to 7 April 2012. The tour included two Tests between Sri Lanka and England.^[1] With England's victory in the Second Test, they retained their top spot on the world Test rankings.^[2]

English cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2011–12
	Sri Lanka	England
Dates	15 March 2012 – 7 April 2012
Captains	Mahela Jayawardene	Andrew Strauss
Test series
Result	2-match series drawn 1–1
Most runs	Mahela Jayawardene (354)	Kevin Pietersen (226)
Most wickets	Rangana Herath (19)	Graeme Swann (16)
Player of the series	Mahela Jayawardene (SL)

Squads

Sri Lanka[3]	England[4]
Mahela Jayawardene (c) Thilan Samaraweera (vc) Dinesh Chandimal (wk) Tillakaratne Dilshan Rangana Herath Prasanna Jayawardene (wk) Suranga Lakmal Angelo Mathews Tharanga Paranavitana Dhammika Prasad Suraj Randiv Kumar Sangakkara Chamara Silva Lahiru Thirimanne Chanaka Welegedara	Andrew Strauss (c) Alastair Cook (vc) James Anderson Ian Bell Ravi Bopara Tim Bresnan Stuart Broad Steven Davies (wk) Steven Finn Monty Panesar Samit Patel Kevin Pietersen Matt Prior (wk) Graeme Swann James Tredwell Jonathan Trott

Tour matches

First-class: Sri Lanka Board XI vs England XI

15–17 March Scorecard

Sri Lanka Board XI	v	England XI
169 (73.3 overs) Ashen Silva 66 (179) Monty Panesar 5/37 (23.3 overs)		303/8d (100 overs) Alastair Cook 163* (293) Malinga Bandara 3/58 (24 overs)
119 (56.4 overs) Dimuth Karunaratne 31 (71) James Anderson 3/21 (11.4 overs)

England XI won by an innings and 15 runs R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo Umpires: Ravindra Kottahachchi (SL) and Raveendra Wimalasiri (SL)

• Sri Lanka Board XI won the toss and elected to bat.

First-class: Sri Lanka Cricket Development XI vs England XI

20–22 March Scorecard

Sri Lanka Cricket Development XI	v	England XI
431/6d (100 overs) Chamara Silva 163 (180) Stuart Broad 3/69 (18 overs)		272/4d (66 overs) Jonathan Trott 101 (141) Tharanga Lakshitha 1/29 (12 overs)
199/4d (34 overs) Angelo Perera 90* (70) Tim Bresnan 1/16 (6 overs)		360/6 (60.4 overs) Matt Prior 84 (60) Vishwa Fernando 2/72 (13 overs)

England XI won by 4 wickets Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo Umpires: Nilan De Silva (SL) and Tyron Wijewardene (SL)

• Sri Lanka Cricket Development XI won the toss and decided to bat

Test series

1st Test

26–29 March Scorecard

Sri Lanka	v	England
318 (96.3 overs) Mahela Jayawardene 180 (315) James Anderson 5/72 (20.3 overs)		193 (46.4 overs) Ian Bell 52 (87) Rangana Herath 6/74 (19 overs)
214 (84.3 overs) Prasanna Jayawardene 61* (123) Graeme Swann 6/82 (30 overs)		264 (99 overs) Jonathan Trott 112 (266) Rangana Herath 6/97 (38 overs)

Sri Lanka won by 75 runs Galle International Stadium, Galle Umpires: Asad Rauf (Pak) and Rod Tucker (Aus) Player of the match: Rangana Herath (SL)

• Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat.
• Samit Patel (Eng) made his Test debut.

2nd Test

3–7 April Scorecard

Sri Lanka	v	England
275 (111.1 overs) Mahela Jayawardene 105 (216) Graeme Swann 4/75 (28.1 overs)		460 (152.3 overs) Kevin Pietersen 151 (165) Rangana Herath 6/133 (53 overs)
278 (118.5 overs) Mahela Jayawardene 64 (191) Graeme Swann 6/106 (40 overs)		97/2 (19.4 overs) Alastair Cook 49* (69) Rangana Herath 1/37 (9 overs)

England won by 8 wickets Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu Stadium, Colombo Umpires: Asad Rauf (Pak) and Bruce Oxenford (Aus) Player of the match: Kevin Pietersen (Eng)

• Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat.