Sri Lankan opener Tillakaratne Dilshan scores his first World Cup century
Sri Lankan opener Tillakaratne Dilshan scored his first World Cup century in the group ‘A’ match of the tournament against Zimbabwe in Pallekele on Thursday.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Elton-Chigumbura-c55937 won the toss and invited Sri Lanka to bat first. Dilshan with his opening partner Upul Tharanga started off the innings remarkable, setting a stable partnership of 171 runs in 30 overs.
Dilshan completed his century in 95 balls, comprising of 12 fours and one six. Meanwhile, Tharanga scored 67 runs off 88 balls.
Dilshan is considered as one of the most dangerous batsmen of the world in limited overs cricket, who can take the game away from the opponents with great ease. Before this match, he has played 174 ODI innings scoring 5095 runs at an average of 35.13 including
eight centuries and 21 fifties. His highest ODI score is 160 recorded against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 at Rajkot on 15 December 2009. The veteran is one of the three batsmen who have a strike rate of over 100.
The 34 year-old who has played 12 World Cup innings in his career, has been showing great form in the past two years. He averaged 55.55 in 2009 with four hundreds and 51.16 in 2010 with three centuries.
He was part of the ICC World Cup 2007 edition but did not give any noteworthy performance. He made 217 runs in nine innings including the top score of 58 runs against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/South-Africa-c757 in the Super Eights, which was his only half century in that tournament.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/New-Zealand-c754 at the top and Pakistan at second place. On the other hand, Zimbabwe have played three matches before
this and have scored one win and two defeats, ranking in at No.5.
If Sri Lanka wins this match they will be jump to the top of Group A.
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