India trounce Sri Lanka in the only T20I - Cricket News Roundup – Part 1 – August 08, 2012
On Tuesday, August 07, India trounced hosts http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758 by 39 runs in the only T20I of the tour, at Pallekele International Cricket Stadium.
The visitors after being put into bat, clobbered a small total of 155 runs, with http://www.senore.com/Cricket/V-Kohli-c2737 as the best batsman for smacking 68 runs off 48 deliveries.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 finishing with three wickets down, were always under a threat of losing the game, but the total proved just enough to sneak another win after having beaten the hosts in the One Day International (ODI) series by 4-1.
Kohli was named as the Player of the Series, while http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Irfan-Pathan-c1601, who nabbed three wickets in four overs, bagged the Player of the Match award.
Sri Lanka on the other hand, could muster only 116 runs with http://www.senore.com/Cricket/AD-Mathews-c913 as their top batsman for hammering a 31-run knock.
Indian skipper, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/MS-Dhoni-c2028, has expressed satisfaction over the performance of his team in the tour of Sri Lanka.
Praising the combined effort of the team, the wicketkeeper/batsman said, “I think we mastered our bowling and batting better than them. Overall we were really good. The ball was swinging till the 20th over so not easy to slog. We thought we were 15 short. Our strength is having the 7th batsman in the side.”
Dhoni stayed unbeaten on Tuesday, and bolstered a total of 16 runs in the only T20I fixture against the hosts.
DM Benkenstein’s astounding innings of 40 runs has helped Durham gain an upper hand against Surrey as they are trailing by ten runs with six wickets in hand after smashing 119 runs at stumps on the first day of play in response to the first innings total of 129 posted by Surrey.
BA Stokes played a dominating role in leading http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Durham-c782’s bowling attack as he nabbed four wickets, demolishing Surrey’s batting, and preventing them from posting a big total.
Stokes was backed by C Rushworth, who took three wickets and led an early charge against the opposition.
From http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Surrey-c851, A Harinath was the highest scoring batsman with a tally of 28 to his name, while the rest of the batting unit failed to counter the superior bowling they were up against.
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