Sri Lanka win ODI series against England amid Senanayake row

Birmingham Sri Lanka proved too strong with both ball and bat as they beat England by six wickets in the fifth and final oneday international at Edgbaston on Tuesday to clinch a 32 series victoryThe Sri Lankan team celebrate with the series trophy after winning the fifth oneday international ODI cricket match between England and Sri Lanka at Edgbaston in Birmingham PicAFPFirst paceman Lasith Malinga took three for 50 as Sri Lanka restricted England to 219 all outThen after Sri Lanka had wobbled at 62 for three fifties from Mahela Jayawardene 53 and Lahiru Thirimanne 60 not out together with captain Angelo Mathewss 42 not out off 34 balls saw the tourists home with 10 balls to spareBut there was a controversial moment during Englands innings when Sachithra Senanayake ran out Jos Buttler as the nonstriker backed upMathews upheld the appeal for a perfectly legitimate dismissal and Buttler whose blistering 121 had so nearly taken England to victory in the fourth ODI at Lords was out for 21You would have to ask Angelo Mathews said Cook when asked for his view of the run out during the presentation ceremonyWe were obviously disappointed I hope I wouldnt do itYou dont know in the spur of the moment how you would handle itHowever Mathews insisted He was taking starts not only this game but in the last game as wellWe gave him two warnings and I dont know what else you can do to stop him doing that so we had to go for itI would stick by it What we did was completely within the rules We warned him in the last game tooSri Lanka set a seemingly modest 220 for victory were cruising at 55 without loss in the eighth over as Tillakaratne Dilshan got after the England seam attackBut their charge was interrupted by offspinner James Tredwells burst of two wickets for four runs in 11 ballsFirst he had Dilshan whose 28 featured five boundaries caught off a flashing drive by Joe Root at extracoverTredwell struck again when Kumar Sangakkara the century hero of Sri Lankas sevenrun fourth ODI win at Lords on Saturday was caught on two at slip by Chris JordanThen spearhead James Anderson had Kusal Perera lbwStar batsman Jayawardene had made just eight when he edged leftarm paceman Harry Gurney between wicketkeeper Jos Buttler and first slip Jordan neither going for a chance that probably belonged to the glovemanLefthander Thirimanne hooked Ravi Bopara just short of Gurney at long leg before Jayawardenes delicate late cut with the ball almost in Buttlers gloves off the mediumpacer went for fourBut Jayawardene was out for 53 ending a fourthwicket stand of 98 when he skied allrounder Jordan to Anderson at midoffSri Lanka were now 160 for four in the 39th overThirimanne pressed on to an 89ball fifty before Anderson dropped a return catch when the batsman was on 58 although by then Sri Lanka were in sight of victoryOffspinner Senanayake allowed to take part under International Cricket Council regulations despite being reported for a suspect action at Lords again proved economical in taking one for 36 from 10 oversHe had arguably observed the spirit of cricket by warning Buttler before running him outNevertheless Senanayake was roundly booed by the crowd who considered his run out of Buttler unsportingIt was the eighth recorded instance of a player being dismissed this way in an international match four each in Tests and onedayers since Australias Bill Brown fell victim to Indias Vinoo Mankad in the Sydney Test of 194748 hence the term Mankading which is used to describe the practice of a bowler running out a nonstriker backing upRegardless of Buttlers dismissal Englands toporder batted poorly after Cook won the tossLefthanded opener Cook topscored with 56 in an innings where the only other batsmen to get out of the 20s were Ian Bell 37 and Jordan 30