Sri Lanka chased down 430 to beat England by two wickets with a ball to spare in the third match of the Pakistan ODI Tri-Series at Rawalpindi on October 22, completing what multiple reports describe as the second-highest successful run chase in One Day International history and turning Harry Brook's record-breaking 202 into a losing effort.
Set 430 after England's 429 for 4, Sri Lanka slipped to 24 for 2 early in the chase before Pavan Rathnayake settled things with 130 off 106 balls, an innings that earned him player of the match. Dasun Shanaka then accelerated with 97 off 50 balls, before Janith Liyanage finished the job with an unbeaten 61 off just 27 balls, hitting the winning six off the penultimate delivery of the innings. Josh Tongue was the pick of England's attack with three wickets, but even his best effort could not defend a total that would have won almost any other ODI ever played.
The win is reported as the second-highest successful chase in ODI history, behind only South Africa's famous 438 for 9 against Australia in Johannesburg in 2006. It also pushes past India's 406-run chase against West Indies in Guwahati on September 30, a total that had itself been described as the format's second-highest at the time it was set. Two of the biggest run chases in ODI history inside a single month says as much about the current depth of white-ball batting as it does about any single performance.
England's total was built around Brook's 202 off 116 balls, with Joe Root's 69, Will Jacks's unbeaten 66 and Tom Banton's 50 adding substance around him. A score of 429 for 4 would have been enough to win the overwhelming majority of ODIs ever played, but on this occasion it left England on the wrong side of a result that complicates their path toward the final.
The defeat leaves England without a win after two matches, having also lost to Pakistan by 87 runs earlier in the Rawalpindi leg. Pakistan remain the only unbeaten side in the group stage, while Sri Lanka's win keeps their own hopes of reaching the October 31 final at Gaddafi Stadium alive as the tournament shifts to Lahore for its remaining fixtures.
Rathnayake's ability to anchor a chase under pressure makes him a value top-order pick heading into the Lahore leg, while Liyanage's finishing rate suggests he is worth owning even in a shortened middle-order role. For England, the batting remains the stronger source of fantasy returns than a bowling attack that has now conceded two totals above 400 across its two defeats this series.
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Scores and the run-chase ranking in this article are verified against same-day reporting and freshly re-checked sources as of October 23, 2026; outlets differ slightly on secondary details such as six counts, and only the headline scorecard figures are treated as settled.
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