1. To bat P D Collingwood, ×A Flintoff, G O Jones, L E Plunkett, S I Mahmood, M S Panesar.

2. TEAMS ENGLAND (from)÷ M E Trescothick, A J Strauss, M P Vaughan (captain), I R Bell, K P Pietersen, A Flintoff, G O Jones, A F Giles, M J Hoggard, S P Jones, S J Harmison, C T Tremlett.

3. HOW THEY LINE UP AT THE OVAL ENGLAND (from): M P Vaughan (captain), M E Trescothick, A J Strauss, I R Bell, K P Pietersen, A Flintoff, G O Jones, P D Collingwood, A F Giles, S J Harmison, M J Hoggard, J M Anderson.

4. Scoreboard Sri Lanka First innings M G Vandort c Collingwood b Plunkett' Loose drive, fine tumbling catch at backward point W U Tharanga b Hoggard Bowled by beauty that swung in then straightened K C Sangakkara c G O Jones b Plunkett25 Nibbled at straight one ×D P M Jayawardene c G O Jones b Plunkett Forced to play at one that left him T T Samaraweera c Collingwood b Hoggard3 Edged drive low to third slip T M Dilshan c Trescothick b Flintoff27 Driving, edged low to first slip‘s right M F Maharoof c G O Jones b Mahmood5 Nicked straight one W P U Vaas not out 30 K M D Kulasekara c Trescothick b Mahmood3 Wild slog flew high to first slip S L Malinga lbw b Panesar26 Played down wrong line, hitting leg M Muralitharan c Plunkett b Flintoff1 Skied heave to point Extras (lb6, nb6)12 Total (51.2 overs)141 Fall 3, 16, 16, 25, 46, 65, 7', 82, 132.

5. Among the words Wilson sends out over the packed hall÷ "[G]o out and sell goods that will make the world more comfortable and more happy, and convert them to the principles of America." This evangelical approach would find receptive ears in Europe, which would quite willingly become, by the close of the century, as much a consumer society as the United States – a first–in–line buyer of the American dream, including its more vulgar and transient parts.