Stats - Jos Buttler joins Alex Hales and Heather Knight in elite England lists
2 Jos Buttler became just the second player to score a century for England at the men's T20 World Cup. Alex Hales was the first, having scored an unbeaten 116 also against Sri Lanka in 2014. Buttler is also one of the four men with a hundred in T20Is for England and became the second Englishman with 2000+ T20I runs.
1 Buttler became the first player to score a century in all three formats for England in men's International cricket. He joins Heather Knight as the only players with a hundred for England in all three International formats.
61.96 Percentage of England's total scored by Buttler, the highest proportion of the team's total for England in a completed innings in men's T20Is. The previous highest was 51.54% by Liam Livingstone, who scored 103 out of England's 201 all-out against Pakistan in Nottingham earlier this year.
77 Runs scored by Buttler in the last ten overs of England's innings. Buttler struck six sixes and four fours in the 37 balls he faced in the second half. He scored only 24 runs in the 30 balls he faced until the end of the tenth over.
45 Balls Buttler needed to complete his fifty in this match. Only one player in men's T20Is has scored a century after taking more balls to score his first fifty runs - 47 balls by Paul Stirling against Zimbabwe in September this year.
60.50 Buttler's batting average as an opener in T20Is across 26 innings in which he has scored 1089 runs. Only two openers with 1000+ men's T20I runs average more than 50 - Mohammad Rizwan (76.92) and Buttler.
4 Centuries in men's T20Is in the UAE, including Buttler's unbeaten 101 against Sri Lanka. It was also the first hundred in the UAE in a T20I between two Full Member nations - Rahmanullah Gurbaz's 87 for Afghanistan against Zimbabwe in March this year being the previous highest.
112 Partnership runs between Buttler and Morgan for the fourth wicket, the second-highest partnership for England at the men's T20 World Cup. The highest is 152 between Hales and Morgan for the third wicket against Sri Lanka in 2014. The 112-run stand is also the second-highest for the fourth wicket in the men's T20 World Cup, behind Pathum Nissanka and Wanindu Hasaranga's 123 against Ireland earlier this tournament.
50 Hasaranga took his 50th T20I wicket by breaking the Buttler-Morgan partnership. He needed only 660 balls to complete the milestone, becoming the second-quickest to 50 men's T20I wickets in terms of balls bowled, behind Ajantha Mendis (576 balls). Hasaranga has picked up 14 wickets in the ongoing tournament, the joint second-most in an edition of the men's T20 World Cup behind Mendis' 15 wickets in 2012.
7 Consecutive wins for England against Sri Lanka in T20Is. England have got the better of Sri Lanka at every meeting in this format since the start of 2016. Sri Lanka's last T20I win against England was in 2014 at The Oval.