Sri Lanka v Australia – One Day International Series – 5th Match Recap
Sri Lanka beat the visitors Australia in the final match of the five-match One Day International (ODI) series by successfully chasing a tally of 211 runs posted by Australia at R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo.
Earlier, after winning the toss, the hosts put the Australians into bat first in a bid to restrict the Men in Gold on a meagre tally in order to secure a win in the match.
From Australia, opener http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Simon-James-Marshall-c90362, who after playing a knock of two
runs off six deliveries had his stumps misplaced by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ranaweera-Mudiyanselage-Shaminda-Eranga-c83939.
It was then time for former skipper http://www.senore.com/Cricket/RT-Ponting-c2377 to take the field as he tried to forge a commendable partnership with Watson to leave the hosts humbled. The duo took the score to 71 runs as they posted 67 runs in the second wicket partnership.
It was in the 14th over when Sri Lanka struck again as Ponting was caught at midwicket by Suraj Randiv off the bowling of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/AD-Mathews-c913. The batsman found his way back to the pavilion after playing a knock of 31 runs off 35 deliveries.
Watson and skipper http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Watson-c96326 was dismissed after playing an innings of 56 runs off 84 deliveries. His wicket was taken by
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/BAW-Mendis-c1127 when the batsman was caught at deep midwicket by Tharanga.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/MEK-Hussey-c1942 continued his bad patch with the bat as he departed after scoring a mere tally of six runs off 16 deliveries. At the time of his departure the side had posted 146 runs on the board for the loss of four wickets.
It was in the 38th over when Eranga grabbed another wicket for his national side by dismissing Clarke, who after scoring 47 runs off 67 deliveries was caught behind by the Sri Lankan wicketkeeper Kumar Sangakkara.
Later http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SL-Malinga-c2540 annihilated the remaining batting line-up as he completed his third hat-trick in one-day cricket by becoming the first cricketer to achieve the feat in the history of the game.
After such hammering from Malinga, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746 could only give a target of 212 runs to the hosts.
With a comfortable target at hand, Sri Lanka came out aiming to take a win in the final game after having lost the series to the visitors. However, the home side had a disastrous start when opener http://www.senore.com/Cricket/WU-Tharanga-c2802 lost his wicket without scoring a run on the
fourth delivery of the over.
In the next over http://www.senore.com/Cricket/KC-Sangakkara-c1779 also lost his wicket after smacking seven runs off seven deliveries. At the time of his departure, the Lankans had fancied 12 runs on the board.
Sri Lanka were in trouble when after the team had posted 33 runs on the board when skipper http://www.senore.com/Cricket/TM-Dilshan-c2691 lost his wicket before clobbering 17 runs off 16 deliveries.
With things looking bleak for the home side, it was the veteran http://www.senore.com/Cricket/LPC-Silva-c1848 who rallied a match winning partnership helping their side inch closer to the required tally before Silva went back after knocking 63 runs off 71 deliveries
while Jayawardene registered an innings of 71 runs before finding his way back to the pavilion in the 42nd over.
However, the bulk of the work had been done as the later batsmen easily overcame the required target in 47 overs for the loss of six wickets.
Sri Lanka’s Lasith Malinga was named as the Man of the Match while the Australian skipper Michael http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Clarke-c51120 was named as the Man of the Series.
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