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Scorecard 3 Overs Maidens Runs Wickets Wickremasinghe 4 0 16 0 Perera 11 2 22 0 Muralitharan 54.2 27 65 9 Dharmasena 19.3 13 12 0 Jayasuriya 28 14 30 0 De Silva 10.3 3 16 0 Jayawardene 2 0 5 0

Analysis

Muralitharan took nine of the 10 wickets.
This bowling anaylsis demonstrates the degree to which Sri Lanka depended (and still do depend) on Muralitharan as their main bowling force.
The only other England wicket to fall was a run out, and so doesn't appear in the bowling figures.

Muralitharan bowled 54 of the 129 overs.
It isn't possible for a single bowler to bowl more than half the overs in an innings, so this demonstrates that Murali must have bowled almost non-stop from one end while other bowlers took their turn at the other.
Incidentally, three bowlers ended with incomplete overs. Murali took the last wicket of the innings after two balls of an over, and Dharmasena was injured three balls into one of his overs, so the final three balls of that over were bowled by De Silva.


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