Brook top-scored with 67 under a warm September sun, before his bowlers rolled the tourists for 176 to take a 1-0 lead into Thursday’s second match at Headingley.
Without Jacks’s unbeaten 46 in the first innings, including 18 runs taken off the 48th over, Sri Lanka might well have had a sniff here.
Root’s removal in the 23rd over was the first time he had been dismissed in ODI cricket for some 416 deliveries – a streak of 404 runs that goes back to England’s 2-1 win in Sri Lanka last winter.
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Since returning in a lower middle-order role last year Jacks has averaged 43 and struck at over 100.
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All-rounder takes five wickets after 46 not out.
Harry Brook had called on his England players to continue the “high octane” cricket witnessed during their clean sweep in the Twenty20s but this latest victory over Sri Lanka in the first one-day international was more of a slow-burn affair.
Gone was the neck-arching casualties of the previous week and in its place, on a tired end-of-season surface, England were bowled out for 265 in 48.1 overs. Brook top-scored with 67 under a warm September sun, before his bowlers rolled the tourists for 176 to take a 1-0 lead into Thursday’s second match at Headingley.
For Brook it was his 11th victory as England’s ODI captain, nudging him into credit after 10 defeats and continuing what has been a quiet resurgence in the format this year.
The volume will need to increase over the next 12 months as England build towards the next 50-over World Cup.
Without Jacks’s unbeaten 46 in the first innings, including 18 runs taken off the 48th over, Sri Lanka might well have had a sniff here.
Only Vic Marks, five for 20 against New Zealand in Wellington way back in 1984, boasts better ODI figures by an England spinner – not that the man himself would ever boast about such things.
Root’s removal in the 23rd over was the first time he had been dismissed in ODI cricket for some 416 deliveries – a streak of 404 runs that goes back to England’s 2-1 win in Sri Lanka last winter.
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