Kumar Sangakkara heaps praise on Lasith Malinga – Cricket News Update
Acting Sri Lankan captain http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Thomas-Donald-Topley-c93395.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SL-Malinga-c2540, who has been struggling to make an impact in the league stage as well as the first two games of the Super Eights, returned with a five-wicket haul on Monday night, including three in one over, as Sri Lanka restricted the defending champions to 150 for 9, after setting a par 169 for 6 on the board.
"The guys played really well. Lasith is unbelievable, specially the Super Over against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/New-Zealand-c754 here with the new ball and also with the old ball. Hope he keeps doing that for us," said the acting Lankan skipper after the hosts knocked defending champions England out of the tournament with a 19-run win, and reached the semi-finals along with West Indies.
Sangakkara was given the reins of the home side for Monday’s Super Eight encounter against England, ahead of regular skipper http://www.senore.com/Cricket/DPMD-Jayawardene-c1397 and his deputy Angelo Mathews. The veteran wicketkeeper batsman said that the swap of captains was intentional and had the backing of the whole team as well as the management, as they did not want to risk losing Jayawardene on count of slow over rate, ahead of the tournament semi-final.
"Well I was the official captain today. Both Mahela and (Angelo) Mathews were on warning and that is valid for six months. So we did not want to take the risk," explained the gloveman.
Mahela Jayawardene, who was appointed as the Sri Lankan captain for a second term, in February this year, was fined for slow over rate against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013.
After finishing the Super Eight stage unbeaten, dominant http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758 now await the second placed team from the other half in the first semi-final, at Colombo, on Thursday, October 4, 2012.
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