![]() ![]() Gary Ballance (6) and Bell (49 from 54) then went before the end of the 21st over as England were pegged back, but Root’s partnerships of 61 with skipper Eoin Morgan (27) and 98 with James Taylor (25) gave the three-time runner’s up real momentum. Morgan won the toss at Westpac Stadium and opted to bat first, just as he did last week in the eight-wicket mauling by co-hosts New Zealand at the same venue.Įngland started briskly, though, racing to 62 without loss from 9.1 overs with Ian Bell finding the fence regularly, before Moeen Ali chipped Sri Lanka skipper Angelo Mathews tamely to mid-off. Root, 24, beat the record of David Gower, who was 26 when he racked up three figures against Sri Lanka in the 1983 World Cup in Taunton, as he clubbed 121 from 108 balls in England’s score of 309-6.īut majestic centuries from Lahiru Thirmanne (139no) and Kumar Sangakkara (117no) helped Sri Lanka knock off their target of 310 in 47.2 overs and consign Eoin Morgan’s men to a third defeat in four World Cup matches. Joe Root becoming the youngest Englishman to score a World Cup hundred was overshadowed by Sri Lanka’s thumping nine-wicket victory in Wellington.
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