In contrast, England have been in sublime form, winning four of their five matches and have eight points. They are especially dangerous with the bat as they have posted 300-plus scores in four of those five games -- two of them being
386/6 against Bangladesh and
397/6 against AfghanistanIn their last game against Australia, Sri Lanka
suffered a 87-run loss at the Kennington Oval in London and therefore, it would need an extraordinary performance from Dimuth Karunaratne's men to get past an in-form English side.
Four English batsmen -- Joe Root (367), Eoin Morgan (249), Jonny Bairstow (218) and Jason Roy (215) -- are among the 10 highest-scoring batsmen in the ongoing tournament so far.
In their last match against Afghanistan, Morgan ran amok producing one of the best knocks in World Cup history -- a 71-ball knock of 148, which
included a record 17 sixes.
Lasith Malinga and Nuwan Pradeep would require to deliver an out of the box performance to stop England from going berserk in Leeds.
Key FactsEoin Morgan needs 92 runs to become first England and 13th skipper overall to complete 4000 runs in ODIs. He has 3928 runs at an average of 46.76 in 96 innings of 105 matches.
Sri Lanka have won just two matches out of last eight in World Cup. Their victories came against Scotland at Hobart in 2015 and against Afghanistan at Cardiff in 2019.
After enjoying a six-match winning streak versus Sri Lanka in ODIs, England lost by 219 runs on the DLS method the last time the sides met in
October 2018.
England and Sri Lanka have two wins apiece in ODIs they have contested at Headingley.
Key Quotes"Obviously, it means a lot. To play 100 games for England, ODI games, it's a dream. I never thought in my wildest dreams that I would get close to it so it's an amazing feeling," England all-rounder Moeen Ali.
"England is the best batting line-up against the spinners in the world. If you take the Asian countries, I think England are playing [spin] even better than them. We know that we need to restrict them to less than 300, we have a couple of plans against the batsmen and we will try to use them in the middle," Sri Lanka captain Dimtuh Karunaratne.
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