SL vs ENG

10:56 PM local time and IST: A very happy looking England skipper Harry Brook collects the trophy and then goes up to his teammates for the photos, they look pleased and why not. They came to Sri Lanka with one goal in mind, to perfect their WC preperations and they have whitewashed the hosts in comprehensive manner. Not to forget, there was a 2-1 victory for England in the ODIs as well. All in all, it will go down as pretty much a perfect tour for England as you could make out from Brook's words. They will now fly to Mumbai where they will begin their campaign in the T20 WC against Nepal on Sunday (Feb 8).

What about the other side of the coin though? Sri Lanka have been made to look like an ordinary side in their own backyard and in less than a week's time they will be co-hosting the T20 World Cup where Sportskeeda will have you all covered. Plenty of questions for them to answer before they start their campaign in Colombo on Sunday (Feb 8) as well against Ireland.

Time for us to take your leave for now, we of course will continue bringing you all the action from around the globe. This is Sourabh Agrawal signing off on behalf of my co-commentator Dwijesh Reddy and the entire team. Cheers!

Harry Brook (England captain): "That was awesome, one of the most fun games I've been a part of. The way the boys kept fighting to the end. We've shown that we can adapt to different surfaces. Tonight was a tricky one to bat on, Sam (Curran) got us to a decent total and the way the spinners bowled against SL in their own conditions was an awesome effort. The World Cup is almost here, when we have the opportunity to play here, we will have the experience to carry over. Been an awesome tour and hopefully we come here a few more times."

Dasun Shanaka (Sri Lanka captain): "Very disappointed. We could have taken it a bit more deep, that is the only area we could have been better. Contest was good, lot of positives. Chameera bowled really well today, Theekshana bowled well. But going forward there are a lot of areas we need to address in the World Cup. We can still take the positives from here, yes we lost 3-0 and as a captain I need to look at things. Will need to neglect the rest of the things. (Areas of concern) Playing spin, we need to access sides of the wicket which is the area I am concerned and we have already addressed that, let's see how it goes. (Positive signs) Of course the bowling, Chameera, Pathirana bowled well, even Theekshana bowled well today and the form of Nissanka, Rathnayake will give us confidence. I would like to wish England all the best for the World Cup."

Sam Curran (Player of the Match & Series): "It was different today. We always felt 135 would be a decent score, and we have some amazing spinners. It was a fun game. A fantastic series win, travelling to Mumbai tomorrow, so the team is excited for it. It has been great, great to be back in the side and trying to contribute. Lots of different roles for us, the first two T20Is were really good and today was different. We have been challenged in different ways and happy to get the win"

10:30 PM local time and IST: MATCH SUMMARY

England (128/9 in 20 overs) beat Sri Lanka (116 all-out in 19.3 overs) by 12 runs and complete a 3-0 clean sweep

Sam Curran 58(48) | Jacob Bethell 4/11(3.3)
Kusal Mendis 26(26) | Dushmantha Chameera 5/24(4)

Did England win this or did Sri Lanka lose it? Taking nothing at all away from England's effort which made sure they never gave up but Sri Lanka were 62/2 after 8.5 overs with two set batters at the crease

Next 64 balls, 64 runs and 8 wickets and now Sri Lanka find themselves scratching their heads as to where did they lose it.

England are over the moon, this is the lowest ever total that England have successfully defended in T20Is and perhaps the most dramatic

Jacob Bethell comes out as the unlikey hero with mind-boggling figures of 4/11 while the damage earlier was done by Will Jacks who got 3/14 in his 4 overs, both of whom are not even regular bowlers for England

Sri Lanka should have chased this down with balls, with overs to spare but yet again their middle order has crumbled following which the lower order could not muster enough strength to resurrect the innings as it all came crashing down for the hosts.

Chasing 129, Sri Lanka lost Mishara early but Nissanka got off to a flier with some lovely boundaries. However, he fell inside the powerplay trying to play against the turn to Dawson. 62/2 became 62/4 as Kusal Mendis and Rathanaye fell off consecutive balls either side of the 9th over and that is where the slide began.

Kamindu Mendis (14) and Janith Liyanage (17) looked like they would take Sri Lanka home as they put up a partnership after that but it was too good to be true for the hosts. Jacks broke the partnership with 39 needed. the asking rate hovered around a-run-a-ball for the majority of the innings  but the runs were never going to be an issue.

The SL batters were found guilty of playing too many soft shots against the turn and throwing their wickets away, unable to finish the job and England were not going to complain at all.

Bethell bowled a 3-wicket 19th over before coming back in the final over against numbers 10 and 11 to get the fina wicket as well as England scripted a historic win right on the cusp of a T20 WC in these conditions. Wonder what the moods will be in the respective camps!

Not to forget Sam Curran's brilliant 58 in the first innings which enabled England to get up to a total of 128 which gave their bowlers to bowl at even though the Sri Lankan bowlers led by a maiden T20I fifer from Dushamantha Chameera restricted England to what Sri Lanka would defintely have thought was a target that could have been chased down.

19.3 Jacob Bethell to Maheesh Theekshana, WICKET! ENGLAND WINS! A full ball bowled outside off, Theekshana looks to slog but gets a top edge to the fielder at third-man, who completes an easy catch! 

19.2 Jacob Bethell to Matheesha Pathirana, a full ball bowled outside off, Pathirana pushes it to the off-side and scampers through for a single

So if the ump had not raised his finger it would have been a single and Theekshana would have been on strike, how big will that prove to be? Definitely one of the grey areas in our game which needs a revisit from the law-makers

19.1 Jacob Bethell to Matheesha Pathirana, LBW GIVEN! IS THAT THE GAME? It's a full ball bowled on middle and off, Pathirana heaves at it and is struck on the pad. The umpire gives it but there is contact with the ball by the bat and it has to be overturned

14 needed off the last over and much to the despair of Theekshana he fails to get a single off the last ball, for whatever it would have been worth. This is England's game to lose now

18.6 Liam Dawson to Maheesh Theekshana, a full ball bowled on middle and leg, Theekshana looks to heave it but ends up making no contact, resulting in another dot ball to end the over!

18.5 Liam Dawson to Maheesh Theekshana, SWING AND A MISS! A similar ball yet again, Theekshana has a swing at this one but cannot make contact. Desperate times for Sri Lanka!

18.3 Liam Dawson to Matheesha Pathirana, IN THE AIR AND SAFE! A full ball bowled on off-stump, Pathirana looks to turn it to the leg-side but gets a thick leading edge towards Luke Wood at extra cover but lands just in front of him

18.2 Liam Dawson to Matheesha Pathirana, a full ball bowled on middle and off, Pathirana hangs his bat in front and ends up chipping one to the right of the bowler, who cannot get there in time.