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| Venue | Lord's Cricket Ground, St John's Wood on 31st July, 1st, 2nd, 3rd August 1998 (4-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Sri Lankans won the toss and decided to field |
| Result | Match drawn |
| Umpires | P Adams, B Leadbeater |
| Close of play day 1 | Middlesex (1) 282/8 (Batt 3*, Tufnell 5*; 104 overs) |
| Close of play day 2 | Sri Lankans (1) 214/4 (Jayawardene 38*, Tillakaratne 1*; 54 overs) |
| Close of play day 3 | Middlesex (2) 123/3 (Weekes 22*, Johnson 4*; 46 overs) |
| Middlesex first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| DJ Goodchild | run out | 105 | |||||
| RA Kettleborough | b Villavarayan | 9 | |||||
| DC Nash | lbw b Villavarayan | 1 | |||||
| PN Weekes | c Kaluwitharana b Pushpakumara | 43 | |||||
| JL Langer | c Kaluwitharana b Villavarayan | 43 | |||||
| *+KR Brown | b Dharmasena | 25 | |||||
| KP Dutch | b Pushpakumara | 0 | |||||
| RL Johnson | c Kaluwitharana b Pushpakumara | 8 | |||||
| CJ Batt | lbw b Perera | 11 | |||||
| PCR Tufnell | c Hathurusingha b Villavarayan | 24 | |||||
| TF Bloomfield | not out | 2 | |||||
| Extras | (7 lb, 31 nb, 4 w) | 42 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 113.4 overs) | 313 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-32, 2-40, 3-129, 4-202, 5-250, 6-261, 7-261, 8-277, 9-309, 10-313 (113.4 ov) | |||||||
| Sri Lankans bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls |
| Perera | 21 | 4 | 46 | 1 | - | - |
| Pushpakumara | 23 | 1 | 93 | 3 | - | - |
| Hathurusingha | 17 | 4 | 54 | 0 | - | - |
| Villavarayan | 18.4 | 7 | 36 | 4 | - | - |
| Dharmasena | 30 | 8 | 74 | 1 | - | - |
| Jayasuriya | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | - | - |
| Sri Lankans first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| *ST Jayasuriya | c Dutch b Batt | 24 | |||||
| MS Atapattu | c Brown b Tufnell | 114 | |||||
| RP Arnold | c Weekes b Batt | 20 | |||||
| DPMD Jayawardene | c Nash b Bloomfield | 79 | |||||
| HDPK Dharmasena | lbw b Tufnell | 0 | |||||
| HP Tillakaratne | c Kettleborough b Tufnell | 11 | |||||
| +RS Kaluwitharana | c Langer b Johnson | 73 | |||||
| UC Hathurusingha | lbw b Batt | 20 | |||||
| ASA Perera | c Weekes b Bloomfield | 10 | |||||
| MS Villavarayan | b Batt | 32 | |||||
| KR Pushpakumara | not out | 7 | |||||
| Extras | (8 b, 14 lb, 10 nb, 2 w) | 34 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 109.5 overs) | 424 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-56, 2-127, 3-211, 4-211, 5-237, 6-334, 7-354, 8-377, 9-397, 10-424 (109.5 ov) | |||||||
| Middlesex bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls |
| Bloomfield | 22 | 2 | 74 | 2 | - | - |
| Batt | 22.5 | 1 | 103 | 4 | - | - |
| Johnson | 22 | 5 | 72 | 1 | - | - |
| Tufnell | 24 | 4 | 90 | 3 | - | - |
| Goodchild | 6 | 0 | 20 | 0 | - | - |
| Dutch | 13 | 4 | 43 | 0 | - | - |
| Middlesex second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| DJ Goodchild | lbw b Pushpakumara | 6 | |||||
| RA Kettleborough | c Kaluwitharana b Villavarayan | 38 | |||||
| DC Nash | lbw b Pushpakumara | 42 | |||||
| PN Weekes | c Dharmasena b Hathurusingha | 49 | |||||
| RL Johnson | b Perera | 4 | |||||
| JL Langer | c Kaluwitharana b Pushpakumara | 12 | |||||
| *+KR Brown | not out | 40 | |||||
| KP Dutch | b Hathurusingha | 8 | |||||
| CJ Batt | not out | 18 | |||||
| TF Bloomfield | did not bat | ||||||
| PCR Tufnell | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (2 b, 4 lb, 8 nb) | 14 | |||||
| Total | (7 wickets, 87 overs) | 231 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-27, 2-88, 3-114, 4-123, 5-142, 6-181, 7-201 | |||||||
| Sri Lankans bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls |
| Perera | 15 | 4 | 34 | 1 | - | - |
| Pushpakumara | 18 | 5 | 52 | 3 | - | - |
| Dharmasena | 17 | 6 | 34 | 0 | - | - |
| Villavarayan | 15 | 1 | 43 | 1 | - | - |
| Hathurusingha | 22 | 3 | 62 | 2 | - | - |
Notes
--> DJ Goodchild (1) passed his previous highest score of 83 in first-class matches
