Sri Lanka cricket team in England in 1998 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date | 12 July 1998 – 31 August 1998 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Location | England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Result | Sri Lanka won the only Test | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Player of the series | Muttiah Muralitharan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Sri Lanka national cricket team toured England in the 1998 season. On the tour they played 4 first-class matches, 5 List A matches and a single Test match. They also competed in a tri-series tournament against England and South Africa, entitled the Emirates Triangular Tournament. They won the competition by defeating England in the final, also beating South Africa in the group stage. They won the only Test, with Muttiah Muralitharan taking a career best 16/220 – the 5th best bowling figures in a match in Test cricket history.[1]