Sri Lanka vs England – Match Recap – ICC World T20 2012
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/West-Indies-c760 have also proceeded in the event, with both the teams
keenly looking forward to today’s Group 2 matches to know who they are going to meet in the knockout stage.
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making way for Samit Patel, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/RS-Bopara-c2373 and Jade Dernbach respectively.
Quite surprisingly, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/DPMD-Jayawardene-c1397 was part of the playing-11. It was just because the latter was warned in the previous match due to a poor over-rate and was in danger of being banned for the semi-final.
The home team were off to a flying start through Jayawardene and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/AD-Mathews-c913, who helped their side
reach a very competitive total of 169 runs for the loss of six wickets in their allotted 20 overs.
Jayawardene remained the top-scorer with 42, which came off 38 balls with the help of five boundaries and a six.
Chasing a huge target, England lost their way at the very beginning, with http://www.senore.com/Cricket/GP-Swann-c1501 showed some resistance but could not help their team qualify for the semi-finals.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Huzefa-Mohammed-Patel-c63657 scored 67 runs off just 48 balls, in which he smashed eight fours and a couple of huge sixes.
Malinga, who looked a touch off-colour in the earlier part of the tournament, answered his critics in style, picking up five wickets against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013 after giving away just 31 runs. The fast bowler was named as the Player of the Match.
Broad was extremely disappointed after the match and admitted in the post-match presentation ceremony that his side was completely outplayed by the hosts. However, he praised Patel’s fighting knock.
"We've learnt a huge amount from this, we need to keep wickets in hand at the top, we fell short at the top of the order and are death bowling too. Samit also today showed what he could do," said the England captain.
With the loss, England’s hopes of defending the tournament have been tarnished and the selectors may rue the decision to leave out http://www.senore.com/Cricket/KP-Pietersen-c1806 for the mega event.
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