| Sri Lanka in England 2006 | |||
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| Sri Lanka | England | ||
| Dates | 24 April – 1 July 2006 | ||
| Captains | Mahela Jayawardene | Andrew Flintoff | |
| Test series | |||
| Result | 3-match series drawn 1–1 | ||
| Most runs | Kumar Sangakkara (231) | Kevin Pietersen (360) | |
| Most wickets | Muttiah Muralitharan (24) | Matthew Hoggard (15) | |
| Player of the series | Muttiah Muralitharan (SL) and Kevin Pietersen (Eng) | ||
| One Day International series | |||
| Results | Sri Lanka won the 5-match series 5–0 | ||
| Most runs | Upul Tharanga (347) | Marcus Trescothick (277) | |
| Most wickets | Lasith Malinga (13) | Steve Harmison (8) | |
| Player of the series | Sanath Jayasuriya (SL) | ||
| Twenty20 International series | |||
| Results | Sri Lanka won the 1-match series 1–0 | ||
| Most runs | Sanath Jayasuriya (41) | Marcus Trescothick (72) | |
| Most wickets | Sanath Jayasuriya (2) | Paul Collingwood (4) | |
| Player of the series | Sanath Jayasuriya (SL) | ||
Sri Lanka toured England for cricket matches during the 2006 international cricket season. England were back home for the first time since September 2005 and looked to maintain their Test standards, which saw them keep their second place in the ICC Test Championship in India, and the teams were also competing for sixth place in the ICC ODI Championship as both England and Sri Lanka were coming off the back of two lost ODI tours on the Asian sub-continent, against India and Pakistan respectively. To add to problems, both teams were likely to be missing some key members of the team as England were without some of their squad for their previous tour and, two days before Sri Lanka departed for England, it was revealed that skipper Marvan Atapattu would stay at home for the tour due to back problems that had forced him to skip his previous tour too. Jehan Mubarak was brought in as his replacement.