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AUS vs SL, 1st T20, SL vs AUS 2022 summary
SL
122-8(19.0)
Australia won by 20 runs (DLS METHOD)
AUS
(20.0)149-9
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P'ship : 18(11)
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This is all from our side but cricket never ends here. Keep a tab on our live coverages of IND-WI 3rd ODI, PSL and BPL. This is me, Arjun Bhalla signing off on the behalf of my colleagues - Anurag Dasgupta, Anurag Singh and Vishnu Verma.
Dasun Shanaka | Losing Captain: "We had lots of positives with the bowling and in the field. I thought we did better in those departments. Obviously we didn't get any partnerships going from the start. It's been a concern even from the last tour we were here. We need to come up with a better plan for the next game."
Aaron Finch | Australia Captain: "It was nice to get the win. I thought we had to bowl well to defend that total on this wicket. We probably left ourselves a little bit short with the bat. We got ourselves into a position where we were one wicket down too many at stages after the 12th over. But an unbelievable effort from the bowlers."
Adam Zampa: "It's a world class bowling attack. To have those guys up the other end building pressure. That pressure built up tonight and I was lucky enough to be on the end of a couple of wickets."
Adam Zampa gets the Man of the Match for his enthralling spell of 3 for 18.
After seeing the first innings one could have said, the World Champions have survived an unforeseen loss at the hands of Sri Lanka. The tourists may have kept Australia down on 150 runs in the first innings. But this varied Aussie attack today stated that a mere total of 150 runs is more than good for them. At least against Sri Lanka’s mediocre batting.
The home team’s new-ball bowler kicked off their innings with disciplined lines and lengths, resulting in Gunathilaka's wicket off Hazlewood. Nissanka played a couple of glorious, first against Starc and then took the attack to Stoinis, but his strike rate was never at par. That backfired for the Lankans, but we’ll come to that later.
Australia scripted a famous win in the series-opener and the chief architect for that was Adam Zampa. The wrist-spinner was spellbinding against the Asian side as they failed to pick variations both from hand and off the deck. For instance, Hasaranga and Asalanka were done with leg-breaks, while the leggie outslicked the stylish but struggling Nissanka.
Coming onto what backfired for the Lankans, the opener played a 37-ball long knock where he served five beautiful boundaries and a dreamy maximum. However, he could only score 36 runs (out of which 26 runs from boundaries), meaning despite hitting the ball marvellously, Nissanka struggled to place the ball in gaps and rotate singles or doubles. That backfired!
When Nissanka got dismissed, Sri Lanka were left under enormous pressure and the other batters couldn’t take that load. As a result, they lost as many as seven wickets in just 40 runs. Two portions of rain-breaks also helped the home team, however even without the rain-break, Australia would have been too good for Sri Lanka.
OVER 19
Sri Lanka
122/8
Binura Fernando
2(2)
Dinesh Chandimal
25(16)
Mitchell Starc
0-41(4.0)
18.6 M Starc to D Chandimal
1 Last ball of the innings. Yorker to finish the game. Chandimal fends it down to mid wicket and will take a single to end the game. A comprehensive victory for the home side..
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