{"id":898144,"date":"2026-09-19T20:50:31","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T20:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/898144\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T20:50:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T20:50:31","slug":"england-completes-series-sweep-over-sri-lanka-in-t20-cricket-and-back-as-no-1-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/898144\/","title":{"rendered":"England completes series sweep over Sri Lanka in T20 cricket and back as No. 1 in the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">MANCHESTER, England &#8212; England reclaimed top spot in the T20 <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/See AP\u2019s full cricket coverage here\" rel=\"nofollow\">cricket<\/a> world ranking by thrashing Sri Lanka by eight wickets to complete a 3-0 series sweep in Manchester on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">After easy wins in Southampton and Cardiff, England made it a hat trick of victories inside five days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Sri Lankans were bowled out for just 124 \u2014 their lowest total in the series \u2014 and England raced to the target in 9.4 overs, with 62 balls to spare, thanks to Jos Buttler&#8217;s unbeaten 62 from 32 balls in a stand of 85 with captain Harry Brook (33).<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">England now boasts a record of 23 wins from its last 26 games in the shortest international format and has moved back ahead of India in the T20 ranking. The nations have traded the No. 1 position three times in the past two months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \"><a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/cricket\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">See AP\u2019s full cricket coverage here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MANCHESTER, England &#8212; England reclaimed top spot in the T20 cricket world ranking by thrashing Sri Lanka by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":898145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-898144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=898144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/898145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}