Marcus Trescothick praised the Rose Bowl's state-of-the-art floodlights after taking England to the brink of a Twenty20 victory against Sri Lanka.

Trescothick, pictured left, smashed 72 from 58 balls but England lost by two runs in pursuit of the 164-run victory target under The Rose Bowl's £500,000 floodlights.

"Light-wise they were very good, probably one of the better ones around," said the Somerset star, who believed he had won his side the match with three successive fours off Lasith Malinga in the 18th over.

He said: "I was so close to playing the perfect innings.

"If I hadn't got run out we would probably have won the game but it was a great day, a great game and going into the last two or three overs it looked as though we were going to win it.

"We needed one more boundary in the last over, we were one ball away from winning it."

England suffered a setback in the second over of the match when Ed Joyce suffered a knee injury as he attempted to field a Sanith Jayasuriya upper cut' off Steve Harmison on the third man boundary.

Joyce underwent X-rays at Southampton General Hospital and the extent of the injury is expected to be revealed today, but England put it behind them to reduce Sri Lanka to 163.

Paul Collingwood recorded figures of 4-22, the best in Twenty20 internationals, and ended the 75-run opening stand between Jayasuriya (41 from 30 balls) and Upul Tharanga (34 from 25 balls) as Sri Lanka slumped from 75-0 to 84-4.

Collingwood, a star performer in last year's Twenty20 win against Australia, also dismissed the dangerous Kumar Sangakarra (21 from 14 balls), while Ian Bell, on as a substitute for the stricken Joyce, produced two run-outs.

Andrew Strauss (33 from 21 balls) got England off to a flier in reply, cracking FOUR successive fours against an attack minus Muttiah Muralitharan and former Hampshire seamer Chaminda Vaas.

And Kevin Pietersen, with St George's flags painted on his cheeks, hit 17 from 16 balls before he was brilliantly caught after pulling a rank long hop to square leg.

With England needing 33 to win from the last three overs, Trescothick hit out against Malinga to bring the target down to 19 from two overs, when he was brilliantly run out by Sangakarra.

Nine were needed off the last over. But England debutant Tim Bresnan, who began the match with three wides from his first four balls, failed to help Geraint Jones (14 from 11 balls) get the nine runs needed from the last six balls from Dilhara Fernando.