Cricket Update: Sri Lanka thrash Australia in a thriller
Angelo Mathews and Lasith Malinga produced a miracle innings for their side to sail them to an improbable victory. With this stunning win against Australia, Australia’s losing streak has now extended to six consecutive matches in all formats of the game.
Australia made a hesitant start as Sri Lanka made their first break through with 30 runs on the board. Shane http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Watson-c96326 was the first victim for the formidable Malinga. Brad Haddin then went on to score an invaluable 49 from 55 deliveries to help stabilize the
Aussie innings.
Michael http://www.senore.com/Cricket/NLTC-Perera-c2121. Brad Haddin departed soon after as the batsman nicked the ball to the wicketkeeper
Sangakkara who safely held on to it. White fell for a golden duck as he was bowled on the next delivery by Perera to latch some breaks on the out of form Kangaroos.
Mike Hussey then began to crawl his way against the Sri Lankans, as he flicked the ball around for singles and doubles. He was supported by Marsh who played a thoughtful innings. They were made to work incredibly hard by the Sri Lankans, however eventually,
mainly due to the efforts of Hussey; they managed a decent total of 239.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758 had a target of 240 and it was clear that the visitors would look to unsettle the Aussies yet again however things did not fold out as planned once the Sri Lankan innings started. Tharanga was run out in only the 4th over of the innings
and the visitors were one down for 10 runs. The Kangaroos kept mounting pressure on the Sri Lankan side and soon after, Dilshan departed for just 7 runs off the bowling of Siddle. Kumar Sangakkara then stepped into a leadership role playing a classy innings
by scoring 49 runs off 46 deliveries and smashing 6 boundaries.
However, he was not supported by his fellow batsmen who struggled against the Australian bowling and Jayawardene fell for 19 runs, with only 73 runs on the board for the visitors. Silva departed just as soon as he came off the brilliant bowling of Doherty
who made an early dent in the Sri Lankan batting line up. Sri Lanka were left stuttering at 86 with 6 wickets down and it seemed rather improbable that they would be able to scrap a win from there onwards.
A sensational batting display from http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Kapil-Dev-c70234 and Syed Kirmani in the 1983 World Cup. Collectively, they managed
to shred apart the Australian confidence as Malinga belted his way to his maiden ODI half century.
Mathew was majestic during his innings as well as he helped guide his side on course to victory. However, some last minute drama took place as Malinga was run out when only one run was needed for victory. It was at this time that it looked as if http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746
would pull up their antics for a draw but unfortunately, luck was cruel to the Aussies as Muralitharan smacked the ball for a boundary to lead his side to victory.
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