{"id":781548,"date":"2026-09-24T22:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T22:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/781548\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T22:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T22:44:09","slug":"england-vs-sri-lanka-jos-buttlers-bravery-in-vain-as-tourists-fight-back-to-level-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/781548\/","title":{"rendered":"England vs Sri Lanka: Jos Buttler’s bravery in vain as tourists fight back to level series"},"content":{"rendered":"

Second Metro Bank one-day international, Headingley <\/p>\n

Sri Lanka 321-6 (50 overs): Kusal 121, Kamindu 54; Ahmed 2-48<\/p>\n

England 305-9 (50 overs): Banton 73, Buttler 69; Wellalage 3-49<\/p>\n

Sri Lanka won by 16 runs <\/p>\n

Scorecard<\/a><\/p>\n

Jos Buttler’s bravery came in vain as Sri Lanka fought back to beat England in the second one-day international at Headingley and set up a series decider at The Oval.<\/p>\n

Needing 68 from 75 balls, England were cruising towards a target of 322 until Buttler retired hurt on 67 after tweaking a hamstring.<\/p>\n

When Rehan Ahmed, Gus Atkinson and Jamie Overton fell, Buttler re-emerged with 27 needed from 14 balls and witnessed Will Jacks fall for 52 at the non-striker’s end.<\/p>\n

England were left needing 19 from the last with Buttler on strike but, barely able to hobble a single, he holed out at deep mid-wicket. England finished on 306-9 as Sri Lanka won by 16 runs.<\/p>\n

Buttler had earlier shown flashes of his vintage best in hitting Sri Lanka’s spinners for five sixes, putting England on course after collapse of 3-14 spoiled an opening stand of 143 between Tom Banton and Ben Duckett.<\/p>\n

Sri Lanka were fortunate for the way he was abruptly halted but deserve credit for the way their seamers used reverse swing afterwards to deny England’s lower order.<\/p>\n

Their captain Kusal Mendis also hit a fine 122 in their 321-6. The series, and the international summer, concludes on Sunday from 10:30 BST.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Second Metro Bank one-day international, Headingley Sri Lanka 321-6 (50 overs): Kusal 121, Kamindu 54; Ahmed 2-48 England…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":781549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-781548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=781548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/781549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}