Sri Lanka v West Indies – ICC World Twenty20 Warm-up Matches – Live Score and Match Update – Sri Lanka win by 9 wickets
A mammoth 103-run stand between http://www.senore.com/Cricket/ICC-World-Cup-2011-c100625 World Twenty20 Warm-up Match, played today on September 13 at the Nondescripts Cricket Club Ground
in Colombo.
The toss favoured the hosts, who decided to field first, with http://www.senore.com/Cricket/AD-Mathews-c913 (2-0-7-1).
The West Indies opened their innings with http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Smith-c90598 out of
the game, and followed it up by claiming the wicket of Simmons in the 4th over.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/DJ-Bravo-c1379 was caught
out by Jayawardene off Mathews in the 8th over, and Charles soon followed, run out by the Lankan skipper in the 11th over.
The mainstay of the Windies’ innings was a 34-run 5th-wicket stand between http://www.senore.com/Cricket/KA-Pollard-c1754 (28*), which got the team up to a total of 99.
However, Malinga intervened to break it up in the 17th over, sending the younger Bravo back to the pavilion, and his successor http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Andre-Dwayne-Russell-c44235 was run out in the very next over, after a quick 11 off 5. Contributions by Pollard and wicketkeeper batsman
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/West-Indies-c760 to post a final total of 132 by the end of 20 overs.
The chase posed no problems for the host team, however, who breezed through it at the expense of just 1 wicket. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Eldeniya-Meda-Gedara-Dilshan-Yasika-Munaweera-c55846 (24) and Tillakaratne Dilshan (50* off 38) opened the innings for the Lankans, and their partnership of 32-runs got the team
off to a steady start.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758 faced no hurdles, and an unbeaten 103-run stand
between Dilshan and skipper Jayawardene (57* off 35) enabled the team to easily reach 135, with 9 wickets and 26 deliveries remaining.
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