Angelo Mathews delighted with Sangakkara's heroics – Cricket News
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/KC-Sangakkara-c1779, who proved to be the difference
between the two teams.
“Very pleased with the boys," said Mathews. "They showed a lot of character. Especially on the first day. I thought Sangakkara batted brilliantly, he held the innings together.”
The rain affected match went into the reserve day, which gave http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758 an opportunity to consolidate their innings. At one stage of the match, the visitors were in deep trouble with three wickets down for
merely 29 runs on the board, before Sangakkara scored an unbeaten 90, which helped the islanders post 219 runs on the board for the loss of eight wickets in their allotted 41 overs.
Needing 230 runs to win the match as per the Duckworth Lewis method, the Caribbean top-order succumbed under pressure. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/LMP-Simmons-c1843 scored valiant half-centuries but they did not find any
support from the rest of the batting line-up. As a result, the home team lost the important encounter by 39 runs.
Sangakkara, who was named as the Player of the Match, admitted that the pitch was extremely hard to bat on initially but it got easier with the passage of time. The wicketkeeper/batsman further added that
the new field regulations in the 50-overs format allow a batsman to see through the hard times because one can always make amends in the later stages of an innings.
Sangakkara expressed, “I think the wicket was quite spongy. There was a slow high bounce. It needed patience at the start and slogging at the end. If you hang in there, with the new rules, and the wicket
getting better, you can get the runs. The real decision is, when the going is tough, are you going to absorb the pressure or are you going to attack.”
The Lankan http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 will be up against each other in the last league match of the tournament today at the same venue. In case of an Indian victory, the two teams will face each other in the final of the tournament on Thursday.
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