Reporting snapshot · 22 October 2026 (Asia/Karachi). England's innings is complete, but Sri Lanka's chase is still in progress. The result, net run rate and the tri-series table may change; the figures below are a snapshot at 18:10 PKT on 22 October.
What happened
England captain Harry Brook made 202 from 116 balls at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium on Thursday 22 October, becoming the first England batter to score a double century in a one-day international and setting the fastest double hundred in the format, the International Cricket Council reported. Two days after Pakistan bowled England out for 215 at the same ground, Brook’s innings carried them to 429 for 4 from 50 overs against Sri Lanka in the third match of the seven-match ODI tri-series.
The ICC said it was the highest total in a men’s ODI in Pakistan and England’s fourth-highest in the format. Brook was out to the final ball of the innings, caught at third man off Janith Liyanage.
Sri Lanka, who won the toss and chose to field, were 55 for 2 after 9.3 overs in reply when this snapshot was taken. They needed another 375 runs from 40.3 overs. Kusal Mendis was run out for a duck and Kamindu Mendis was bowled by Josh Tongue for 18, according to the BBC’s live scorecard.
How Brook built the innings
Brook did not begin at full speed. He had 13 runs from his first 24 deliveries, reached fifty from 42 balls and completed his fourth ODI century from 75, BBC Sport reported. He then scored his second hundred runs in 39 balls.
Tom Banton made 50 and Ben Duckett 29, putting on 74 for the first wicket before Dunith Wellalage dismissed both in successive overs. Brook and Joe Root then added 159 for the third wicket. Root made 69 from 66 balls before he was caught off Asitha Fernando at the start of the 38th over.
Will Jacks, promoted to number five, finished 66 not out from 33 balls. He and Brook put on 185 from 79 balls, and England scored 156 in the final 10 overs. Brook hit 21 fours and 10 sixes, taking 144 runs in boundaries, which the ICC said was the most by an England batter in a single ODI innings.
Brook passed Ben Stokes’s England record of 182, made against New Zealand at The Oval in 2023, with a six off Dilshan Madushanka. He was dropped at mid-off on 185, began the final over on 186, reached 200 with a paddled sweep and was caught two balls later. He reached the double century from 114 balls, one delivery quicker than Shubman Gill’s 117-ball double hundred against West Indies last month, BBC Sport reported.
The records and their limits
Brook’s 202 is the 14th double century in men’s ODI cricket and the 12th-highest individual score in the format, according to BBC Sport. It is also the fourth-highest score by a captain, behind Gill’s 223 not out, Virender Sehwag’s 219 and Rohit Sharma’s 208, The Express Tribune reported.
The total has a separate place in Pakistan’s cricket history. It surpassed Pakistan’s 375 for 3 against Zimbabwe in 2015 as the highest ODI total in the country, the Tribune report said.
Brook’s familiarity with Pakistan is relevant to the scale of the innings. In six Tests in the country he averages more than 80 with four hundreds, including 317 in Multan in 2024, the BBC noted. As England’s ODI captain he averages 56.04, compared with 25.2 without the armband. BBC Sport also noted that he is only the second man, after Chris Gayle, to score a century in T20 internationals, a double century in ODIs and a triple century in Tests.
Why it matters for the tri-series
England came into the match after losing to Pakistan by 87 runs at the same ground on 20 October. Pakistan bowled England out for 215 in 38.4 overs, with Brook making five, as KhabarWire reported. Pakistan have won both of their matches; Sri Lanka lost the opener to Pakistan by 37 runs on 18 October, as KhabarWire also reported.
Both England and Sri Lanka were therefore looking for their first win of the tournament, the ICC said. England’s total gives them a strong chance of securing it and a potentially valuable net-run-rate boost. The top two sides after the six league matches meet in the final in Lahore on 31 October, according to the tournament schedule. The innings belongs to the wider storyline tracked in KhabarWire’s Pakistan Cricket hub.
The contrast with Tuesday is the most striking part. England were bowled out for 215 two days earlier; on Thursday they produced the highest ODI total in Pakistan. Brook’s personal sequence ran from five to 202. Pakistan’s next match is against England in Lahore on 25 October, when their spinners will test whether that transformation survives a change of venue.
What is still uncertain
The match is not finished. Sri Lanka were 55 for 2 after 9.3 overs at the snapshot, with Avishka Fernando on 28 and Pavan Rathnayake on 8. They needed 375 from 40.3 overs, a required rate above nine runs an over. A Sri Lanka victory would alter the table and reduce the value of England’s total; a heavy defeat would improve England’s net run rate. No result, points table or net run rate is treated as settled here.
Published accounts also differed on secondary figures. An early Express Tribune report listed Banton on 51, Jacks on 60 not out and the fourth-wicket stand as 185 from 77 balls. The BBC live scorecard and the ICC report listed Banton on 50 and Jacks on 66 not out, with the stand from 79 balls. This report uses the scorecard figures; the difference does not affect the headline records.
The larger question is what the innings says about England’s method. A flat Rawalpindi pitch and a tiring Sri Lanka attack are favourable conditions, and one innings cannot establish that England have solved the middle-over problems exposed on Tuesday. The remaining matches in Lahore, starting with Pakistan on 25 October, will give a clearer answer.
What comes next
Sri Lanka’s chase continues in Rawalpindi. The tournament then moves to Lahore for the last three league matches and the final on 31 October. Pakistan face England on 25 October, Pakistan play Sri Lanka on 27 October and Sri Lanka face England on 29 October, according to the schedule set out before the tournament.
