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Colombo: Sri Lanka will hope to provide Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene a fitting farewell when they face a beleaguered England in the seventh ODI at the Premadasa Stadium on Tuesday.
The veteran pair - good friends off the cricket pitch - will retire from ODI cricket after the 2015 ICC World Cup which leaves the Premadasa game as their final appearance on home soil.
Sri Lanka claimed the series with a match to spare two days ago, riding on Sangakkara's run-a-ball 112 in Pallekele to make it 4-2. He has been the host's stand-out batsman in the series with 421 runs at 84.20, with four fifties and a century on Saturday. Jayawardene averages 45.75 in five ODIs with a couple half-centuries.
Jayawardene averages 30.61 at the Premadasa, with one century and 13 fifties, while Sangakkara's numbers are far more impressive - he averages 42.26 with two centuries and 15 fifties here. Will they be stirred to produce something special on Tuesday?
England won the third and fifth ODIs to keep the series alive, but Sri Lanka's 90-run win on December 13 has turned the last match into a dead rubber.
Skipper Alastair Cook has endured another poor series, scoring 87 runs in five matches at 17.40 and also struggling in the field - he dropped Sangakkara at mid-off when the batsman was 41 in the last game - and missed a match because of England's slow over-rate. This has prompted coach Peter Moores to publicly mull Cook's leadership at the World Cup next year.
Ravi Bopara, the allrounder, has not fully backed his claims to be given a higher place in the batting order with an eye on the World Cup, averaging 30.83 from six games with just two fifties. Bopara only has one wicket for the series too and his place could go to Ben Stokes.
From a bowling perspective, England have had good performances from allrounder Chris Woakes (14 wickets in six games) and Chris Jordan (8 wickets in four games) and the tourists will need the pair to again deliver the goods.
Teams from:
Sri Lanka: Kushal Perera, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Kumar Sangakkara (wk), Mahela Jayawardene, Angelo Mathews (Capt.), Lahiru Thirimanne, Thisara Perera, Jeevan Mendis, Dhammika Prasad, Sachithra Senanayake, Ajantha Mendis, Shaminda Eranga, Lakshan Rangika, Suranga Lakmal, Ashan Priyanjan, Dilruwan Perera, Lahiru Gamage, Thilina Kandamby
England: Alastair Cook (Captain,), Moeen Ali, James Taylor, Joe Root, Ravi Bopara, Eoin Morgan, Jos Buttler (wk), Chris Woakes, Chris Jordan, Ben Stokes, Steven Finn, Ian Bell, Harry Gurney, James Tredwell, Alex Hales
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Tuesday December 16, 2015 (day/night)
Start time 1430 local (0900 GMT)
