'Room for improvement despite series win' – Eoin Morgan

England were 132/2 after 27 overs, in pursuit of Sri Lanka's 273/7, when a downpour brought an early halt to proceedings. Morgan, who was named Player of the Match for his fluent 31*, and Joe Root (32*) masterminded the chase, but the England skipper said his side's performance in the field left room for improvement.

“I thought today was quite a scrappy game, to be honest,” said Morgan. “We had the better of the conditions having won the toss and bowled and I felt the wicket was a bit tacky and turned a little more than it probably did when we batted. But we felt that Sri Lanka crept up to a very competitive score. Credit to Sri Lanka, they fought back well.

“We are quite honest with where we’re at and where we need to improve. Today it was fielding, we were quite rusty, and we maybe could have been more disciplined in the areas that we bowled."

With the series victory confirmed, Morgan didn’t rule out making changes for the final match in Colombo, with Joe Denly, Sam Curran, Mark Wood and Liam Plunkett waiting in the wings.

“Just because we’ve won the series doesn’t mean that we don’t want to win the next game,” he added. "It’s an important game but also may be an opportunity to look at some other guys as well.”

Sri Lanka were left to rue some costly errors, in particular the run out of top-scorer Dasun Shanaka after a mix up with Thisara Perera when he was well set on 66 and an elementary mistake when Root was caught at short fine-leg but given a reprieve because the hosts had too many fielders outside the circle.

"There was no run there," Shanaka said of his run out. "I came out too far. Normally I have this habit of coming down the wicket about two feet whenever a shot is played. It's a fault that I have that I need to rectify – it's not Thisara's fault.

"When I went in we were 102/4, and I played my normal game without any pressure although we had lost wickets. If I had continued batting longer we could have got a result in our favour. If I had stayed with Thisara for the 50 overs, we could have got around 290-300.

"If we had not made a mistake of having five fielders outside the circle and got Root's wicket it would have been a close game," added Shanaka. "We could have built on the pressure from there and forced another mistake."

The two teams now head to Colombo for the final match of the series on 23 October.