England vs Sri Lanka Highlights, World Cup 2023: SL thrash ENG by 8 wickets, defending champs staring at early exit

England vs Sri Lanka Live Score, World Cup 2023: Jonny Bairstow, Dawid Malan, Joe Root, Ben Stokes, Jos Buttler(w/c), Liam Livingstone, Moeen Ali, Chris Woakes, David Willey, Adil Rashid, Mark Wood

England vs Sri Lanka Live Score, World Cup 2023: Jos Buttler has won the toss, England are batting first today.

England vs Sri Lanka Live Score, World Cup 2023: Ben Stokes' return was one of the big talking points for England going into the World Cup, only magnified by the whirlwind 182 off 124 that he scored in his last game for England before this tournament. But the hip niggle he picked up shortly after arriving with the rest of the team has delayed his tournament start and in that time, England fell into a soup. When he did finally get to play against South Africa, he got out on five. Stokes will not be bowling in this World Cup, remember. His dodgy body also means his effort in the field might be affected. All this comes down to the fact that if Stokes doesn't perform with the bat, he will be doing little more than occupying a spot in the XI.

England vs Sri Lanka Live Score, World Cup 2023: The former England Test captain is rightly regarded as the best player in the world in the longest format of the game. A flypside of Root's blinding form in Test cricket over the past two years is that his limited overs appearances got cut down drastically, which meant that people have forgotten just how good a record he has got in ODIs. Root has scored 6418 runs in 166 ODIs at an average of 48.62 with 16 centuries and 38 half centuries. He started off quite well in this tournament but tailed off in the last two matches. Root has got scores of 77, 82, 11 and 2 thus far.

England vs Sri Lanka Live Score, World Cup 2023: The defending champions are sitting at 2 points and were momentarily bottom of the table after Afghanistan's win over Pakistan. They are currently at eighth though, four points adrift of the top four. There are still multiple ways for them to go through but the one that is the safest is them winning all of their remaining matches and hoping that the NRR equations are kind to them. But that itself is an unkind scenario, as two of those games are against India, who have looked pretty much invincible thus far, and the resurgent Australia.

England vs Sri Lanka Live Score, World Cup 2023: It is hard to imagine that the strip on offer today will be any different from what is traditionally the case in Bengaluru - flat wicket with scope for big runs. There was just one other World Cup match played here and that featured an opening stand of 259. There will be none of the seemingly surprising heat that England got in Mumbai today either, with the temperature expected to be nice and pleasant.

England vs Sri Lanka Live Score, World Cup 2023: Sri Lanka had performed well in the Asia Cup despite them lacking several key bowlers but that hasn't been the case in the World Cup. In two of the four games played thus far, they made good use of the batting conditions, scoring 326 against South Africa in Delhi and 344/9 against Pakistan in Hyderabad. But while the first was in a chase of 429 while in the second, they ended up losing the match with Pakistan breaking their record for highest succesfull run chase in a World Cup match. In the third match, though, the opposite happened. Australia were restricted to 215/5 but Sri Lanka ended ip being all out for 209. Then, they finally won their first match of this tournament against the Netherlands.

England vs Sri Lanka Live Score, World Cup 2023: He is one of the best white-ball batters in the world, which is something you can say about most of the players in this England lineup, but hasn't really shown what he is capable of in this tournament, which is also something that can be said about most players in this side. He has scored 43, 20, 9 and 15 thus far in this World Cup.

England vs Sri Lanka Live Score, World Cup 2023: England and Sri Lanka have met each other 11 times at the World Cup. England have a 6-5 lead over Sri Lanka in the showpiece event. However, Sri Lanka have emerged victorious in its last four meetings with England. The defending champions lost won an ODI at Chinnaswamy Stadium back in 1993.

Buttler's men have recorded six wins in the last matches against the 1996 champions. Sri Lanka have defeated England only twice in its last 10 meetings. The historical head to head stands at 38-36 in favour of England.

England vs Sri Lanka Live Score, World Cup 2023: That was probably one of the biggest upsets of the 2019 World Cup. England were flying, justifying their tags as one of the firm favourites. Sri Lanka were in the doldrums. And yet, on the day, Angelo Matthews' unbeaten 85 off 115 took Sri Lanka to 232/9 at Headingley. Then, the monster that was Lasith Malinga took four wickets and dismantled England's star-studded batting lineup. Ben Stokes stayed unbeaten on 82 off 89 and Sri Lanka won by 20 runs.

England vs Sri Lanka Live Score, World Cup 2023: Moeen Ali played for the Royal Challengers Bangalore between 2018 and 2020 and so he knows a thing or two about Chinnaswamy. "If I do play, I could go for a few runs because it's quite small and a flat wicket, but it's also good for batting," he had said. Moeen said that it is the kind of ground that rewards you if you bat deep.

England vs Sri Lanka Live Score, World Cup 2023: England's last match against South Africa, in which they won the toss and chose to bat first, was on in which the Mumbai heat seemed to get to them. It got to South Africa as well but both teams seemed to have dealt with it in slightly different manners. While England were fried to crisp thanks to their captain thinking that they would be just fine fielding in that heat at the Wankhede, South Africa smashed 399, with Heinrich Klaasen scoring 109 off 67 balls. And then, when the heat of the day went off, England were still in the doldrums and ended up falling to 170 all out. Mumbai is hot. This is something anybody with a passing knowledge of the city knows. That England still chose to field first and then came off with their heads down, faces red and their shirts sticking on to them, well there might be some amount of blame to be put on that decision taken at the toss.

England vs Sri Lanka Live Score, World Cup 2023: England's key fast bowler Reece Topley has been ruled out and Brydon Carse has been brought in his place. It is unlikely that he will play today though. For Sri Lanka, the young Matheesha Pathirana has been ruled out. In his place they called in elder statesman Angelo Matthews, also his participating today is also highly doubtful.

England vs Sri Lanka Live Score, World Cup 2023: Pathum Nissanka, Kusal Perera, Kusal Mendis(w/c), Sadeera Samarawickrama, Charith Asalanka, Dhananjaya de Silva, Dushan Hemantha, Chamika Karunaratne, Maheesh Theekshana, Kasun Rajitha, Dilshan Madushanka, Angelo Mathews, Dimuth Karunaratne, Dushmantha Chameera, Lahiru Kumara, Dunith Wellalage

England vs Sri Lanka Live Score, World Cup 2023: Jonny Bairstow, Dawid Malan, Joe Root, Ben Stokes, Harry Brook, Jos Buttler(w/c), David Willey, Adil Rashid, Chris Woakes, Gus Atkinson, Mark Wood, Brydon Carse, Moeen Ali, Liam Livingstone, Sam Curran

England vs Sri Lanka Live Score, World Cup 2023: It hasn't exactly been a title defence that has gone to plan for England but all's not lost for them yet. After winning one of their first four matches, they now can make it to the semi-finals if they win all the rest of their matches in the group stage. That is something that doesn't even look easy on paper and so, it is an uphill struggle for the defending champions. Up first in the list of must-win games for them is Sri Lanka.