Sri Lanka beat England to overcome Harry Brook hitting fastest 200 in ODIs

England skipper Brook hits 202 successful grounds ODI time, but Sri Lanka deed a six to triumph by 2 wickets with 1 shot to spare.

Janith Liyanage smashed a six disconnected the penultimate shot arsenic Sri Lanka completed the second-highest palmy tally pursuit successful ODI history, scoring 430-8 to bushed England successful Rawalpindi connected Thursday.

Needing 8 to triumph disconnected the past over, Sri Lanka mislaid 2 wickets to paceman Josh Tongue, but Liyanage kept his chill to execute an astonishing triumph and overshadow Harry Brook’s record-setting knock.

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The England skipper deed the fastest-ever ODI treble hundred, making 202 disconnected 116 balls to propel his squad to a mammoth 429-4 aft they were enactment successful to bat.

South Africa clasp the grounds for the highest ODI chase, knocking disconnected a people of 435 against Australia astatine Johannesburg successful 2006.

Batters thoroughly dominated successful Rawalpindi arsenic Brook besides deed the archetypal ODI treble period by an England player. However, Sri Lanka proved up to the situation arsenic Pavan Rathnayake scored 130, with Avishka Fernando and Dasun Shanaka some making 97.

Liyanage past led them implicit the enactment with a blistering 61 not retired disconnected 27 balls.

Sri Lanka slid to 24-2 earlier Rathnayake and Avishka acceptable astir transforming the innings, putting connected 166 for the 3rd wicket.

Rathnayake past combined with Shanaka to assistance the tempo with a accelerated 133-run basal disconnected conscionable 79 balls, to springiness Sri Lanka genuine hope.

Rathnayake deed 15 fours and 3 sixes portion Shanaka’s blazing sound featured 8 sixes and six fours, arsenic Sri Lanka delivered a almighty effect to Brook’s earlier masterclass.

Brook clobbered 10 sixes and 21 fours arsenic England posted a archetypal 400-plus ODI full successful Pakistan.

He reached 200 successful 114 balls, beating the erstwhile fastest treble period successful ODIs by Shubman Gill (117 balls) for India against West Indies past month.

Brook was joined successful the fireworks by Joe Root, who scored a 66-ball 69 and became the archetypal England batter to implicit 8,000 runs, successful his 197th one-day international.

Brook was dismissed disconnected the last delivery, caught disconnected paceman Liyanage, but not earlier helping England adhd 156 runs successful the past 10 overs.

Opener Tom Banton acceptable the code with a 51-ball 50, and Will Jacks was 66 not retired with 3 sixes and 8 fours.

The time looked arsenic if it would surely beryllium to history-maker Brook, but Sri Lanka had different ideas arsenic the erstwhile highest ODI full astatine a Pakistan venue of 375-3 was easy surpassed.

Pakistan, who bushed Sri Lanka and England successful their 2 games, volition look England successful Lahore connected Sunday successful the adjacent lucifer successful the tri-series.