Top 5 Sri Lanka vs England encounters

#4 Nottingham 2016, Match Tied

Sri Lanka didn't go down 0-1 but the damage done was much more than that.

The 2016 series between the two sides marked the beginning of the reversing fortunes of the two sides in the wake of the 2015 World Cup. England had mixed results thus far with their new aggressive approach while Sri Lanka were excited by the prospect of fielding a young side. On England's ground for glory days, Trent Bridge, the tourists batted first and batted in bursts.

Angelo Matthew's rescue knock of 73(109) and Seekkuge Prasanna's blistering 59(28) gave Sri Lanka an ample total of 286 runs to play with. Matthews then paired with opening quick Suranga Lakmal to rock England into oblivion with early wickets to send them crashing to 3/17, which eventually became 6/82.

205 runs to get with 32 overs and 4 wickets as England's only resources, it looked game over. What happened next defined England's metamorphosis. Jos Buttler (93) and Chris Woakes (95*) put on 138 for the seventh wicket. After Buttler departed, Woakes took charge and it all boiled down to seven runs needed off the last ball.

Then Liam Plunkett simply went back into his crease and smoked Nuwan Pradeep's yorker over long-off sending Sri Lanka into agony and the English dug-out into a fervour of relief.