England vs Sri Lanka Live Score Updates, World Cup 2023: England wins toss, to bat first

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Some key statistics for England and Sri Lanka in ICC World Cup 2023England and Sri Lanka have each won just one of their four tournament matches. They are trailing the top four teams by four points.Interestingly, Sri Lanka, the last World Cup defending champions to lose their opening match, faced a similar fate as England this year when they were defeated by New Zealand.England will be missing their key fast bowler Reece Topley, while Sri Lanka's Matheesha Pathirana is out for the tournament, with Angelo Matthews taking his place.Jos Buttler wins the toss, England will bat firstIn the previous World Cup tournaments, England and Sri Lanka met for the 11 times.

Of the encounters, England won 6 times and Sri Lanka 5 times. This time, Sri Lanka will aim to go even with EnglandThe M.

Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru generally favours spine bowlers and pace bowlers. However, batters often take advantage of the shorter boundaries and score lots of runs.

Captains who win the toss tend to choose to field first and chase whatever total is put against them.England vs Sri Lanka: England will get a chance, perhaps a final one, to drag their shipwreck of a World Cup campaign, marked by batting and bowling downtime, to less stormy shores when they face fellow strugglers Sri Lanka here on Thursday.The defending champions have two points from four matches, similar to their opponents, and are ninth on the table.A win here will not push them too far ahead on the chart, but it may give them that tiny bit of motivation against teams like India and Australia ahead. But a defeat against Lanka will take away even the benevolence of mathematics, which is currently scaffolding their hopes.