Tillakaratne Dilshan confident of One Day Series triumph against England – Cricket News Update
Sri Lankan skipper, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Tillakaratne-Mudiyanselage-Dilshan-c93947, is confident that the six-wicket victory against England in the third One-Day international at Lord’s has raised their chances of winning the series as currently they are leading 2-1 against the hosts.
"We are playing good cricket, if we play like this we can win the next two matches," Dilshan told reporters.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/LD-Chandimal-c1831 played useful innings, and helped their side in chasing the below-par target of 247 runs.
Jayawardene, who came as an opener, scored 79 runs off 77 balls including nine boundaries. "They have a very good bowling attack but Mahela is not giving the bowlers anything, he's hitting every loose ball for runs," said Dilshan.
While Chandimal’s splendid innings of 105 runs off 126 balls, including 11 fours and two sixes, earned him the Man of the Match award.
"Getting a hundred at Lord's is really special for him (Chandimal) He played like an experienced guy and he finished the game. That's a good sign for Sri Lanka," Dilshan added.
Dilshan himself failed to add http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Gordon-James-Muchall-c60376 to his national side and went back to the pavilion after just making three runs, before he was bowled out by Tim Bresnan.
Sri Lankan also displayed remarkable bowling which helped them in restricting the hosts to manageable a total. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013’s strong batting
line up.
The tourists achieved the target just for the loss of four wickets in 48.2 overs.
England’s captain, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Alastair-Nathan-Cook-c42852, was the only batsman from his side who scored a ton off 145 balls, helped by thirteen boundaries.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Timothy-Thomas-Bresnan-c94089 scored 30 and 26 runs respectively.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/GP-Swann-c1501 was the pick of the bowlers of his side, claiming two wickets in his 10 overs.
England will now face http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758 in the fourth ODI on July 6, 2011 at Nottingham.
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