Mitchell Johnson delighted with career best figures- Cricket News Update
Australian fast bowler, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758.
The player took 6-31, which helped the side dismiss the Lankan http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Lions-c808 for a sub-standard total of 191.
Ironically, the left-armer was the 6th bowler to be used, after the Australian skipper opted to introduce spin earlier. With the slow bowling of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/DJ-Hussey-c1380 providing the side with the initial break through, it was Johnson,
who ripped through the middle and lower order, to claim 6 scalps.
His 6-wicket haul is the fourth best figures in the country’s limited overs International history, ranking him amongst the likes of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Andrew-John-Bichel-c44426.
The player was content to have achieved this feet; however, he was thrilled that his good bowling performance led his team to win under tough Sri Lankan conditions.
"It's exciting to be ranked against those guys," he said. "But to be able to go out there and do what we needed for the team [was the main thing]. I didn't know if I was getting a bowl today.”
“… In the end, the result that we won the game was the more pleasing thing."
Seemingly cruising at 76-2 in thirteen overs, the Sri Lankans were looking to total in excess of 250. With the inform pairing of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/KC-Sangakkara-c1779 on the crease, it was likely that the hosts would mount a big target.
With http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Clarke-c51120 preferring spin, it was not until the 15th over when the 29-year-old got the chance to bowl. He got Jayawardene from only the third ball of his spell, while also took Sangakkara in his very next over. The left-armer then went all guns
blazing, taking another 4 to leave a spinner- friendly track, a seamers paradise.
It was a pleasing return to form for Johnson, who struggled in the T-20s, which his side lost by big margins.
"[The pitch] looked a little slower, a little drier [than in the two Twenty20 losses]. It didn't get dewy tonight I don't think. I didn't mind bowling on it. I got the ball to tail a bit away from the right-handers, which is always handy." he said.
The Aussie captain praised the pacer’s performances and was also happy to have led the team from the front. Both sides now travel to Hambantota for the second One-Day International.
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