West Indies Vs Sri Lanka 1st ODI: http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Adrian-Barath-c42094 shines with 113 runs
The West Indian batting gave an exciting start against Sri Lanka, setting a target of 245 runs in the rain-affected 1st One Day International played on 31 January 2011 in Colombo. West Indian batsman Adrian Barath shined with a brilliant innings of 113 runs.
In the 1st ODI of the 3 match series, the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758 Captain Kumar Sangakkara on Kulasekara’s ball. Barath, played a tremendous innings, scoring 113 runs from 186 balls. After putting up a reasonable score, he was caught by Kapugedera on Malinga’s ball. Sarwan also played a sensible innings of 75 runs from just 122 balls.
Middle-order batsman http://www.senore.com/Cricket/KMDN-Kulasekara-c1802 bowled out CH Gayle on just four runs.
All other West Indies batsmen came up with disappointing performances. The other top order batsmen contributed few runs. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/DJG-Sammy-c1382 remained not out on 13 and 21 respectively.
For Sri Lanka, bowler Malinga took 3 wickets and also played a vital role to restrict the total to 245 in today’s innings. He bowled out Barath, Sarwan and KA Pollard, giving 51 runs to the visitors with a 5.10 economy rate. Kulasekara took the vital wicket of former Captain http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ajantha-c42419 Mendis and Angelo Mathews were quite expensive, giving up too many runs and not taking any wickets.
Sri Lanka will have a difficult time in the wet playing conditions, favouring the West Indian bowlers in Colombo. Both teams are looking to fine tune their performance ahead of the ICC World Cup 2011 and are anxious to get quality match-time to their players
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