England beat Sri Lanka by 223 runs in the deciding one-day international at The Oval on Sunday, taking the three-match series 2-1 after Tom Banton’s 126 set up a total of 355 for 7 and Sri Lanka were bowled out for 132 inside 30 overs.

Harry Brook won the toss and chose to bat, the full scorecard shows. It is the heaviest margin of the three one-day internationals, and ends a series Sri Lanka had levelled three days earlier at Headingley.

England’s innings

Banton made 126 from 105 balls with 16 fours and five sixes, an innings that earned him the player-of-the-match award. He lost opening partner Ben Duckett for a five-ball duck in the second over and Joe Root for 18, but added 150 for the third wicket with captain Harry Brook, who made 77 from 66.

Jordan Cox, keeping wicket in place of the injured Jos Buttler, struck 76 from 52 balls. England lost their last two wickets on 355, Cox bowled off the penultimate delivery and Liam Dawson off the last.

Asitha Fernando was the most effective Sri Lankan bowler with 3 for 64, dismissing Brook, Cox and Dawson. Sachindu Colombage took 2 for 71, and Dilshan Madushanka and Janith Liyanage one each. Dunith Wellalage went wicketless for 62 from his ten overs.

Sri Lanka’s reply

Chasing 356, Sri Lanka lost Pathum Nissanka for 1 in the second over and never recovered. Captain Kusal Mendis top-scored with 35 from 26 balls, including three sixes, before holing out to Banton off Gus Atkinson in the ninth over.

The innings folded in the middle. Sri Lanka lost three wickets for five runs — from 77 for 3 to 82 for 6 — across nine deliveries between the 15th and 17th overs: Pavan Rathnayake run out by Jofra Archer for 18, Charith Asalanka caught for 7, and Wellalage caught for 5. No batter after Kusal Mendis passed 19.

Left-arm spinner Liam Dawson returned the best figures of the match, 3 for 26 from eight overs. Atkinson took 2 for 26. Eshan Malinga, last man out for 14, was caught by Root off Will Jacks to end the innings at 132 in the 30th over.

Will Jacks was named player of the series for 123 runs and six wickets across the three matches.

Tour context

The defeat completes a bleak white-ball tour for Sri Lanka, who were beaten 3-0 in the T20I series before losing the first ODI at Chester-le-Street by 89 runs. Their one success was the 16-run win at Headingley, where Kusal Mendis made 121.

Note on the reporting

Both innings reconcile exactly against their batting columns — England’s 343 off the bat plus 12 extras, Sri Lanka’s 123 plus nine — and the 223-run margin matches the difference between the totals.

Hiru News filed on the match at the innings break rather than after the finish, and its account covers England’s innings only. Every figure it carries — the toss, the 355 for 7, Banton’s 126 off 105 with 16 fours and five sixes, Brook’s 77, Cox’s 76, and the bowling returns of Fernando, Colombage, Madushanka and Liyanage — matches the scorecard exactly. No Sri Lankan outlet had published the result at the time of writing.