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Result
Australia win by 26 runs
1st Innings
Australia 6/187 (20)
Klinger 62 (43)
Finch 53 (32)
Head 30 (16)
Shanaka 2/26 (4)
2nd Innings
Sri Lanka 146
Munaweera 37 (25)
Siriwardana 35 (27)
Faulkner 3/20 (3)
Zampa 3/25 (4)
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GAME OVER
Australia win the match by 41 Runs
Tonight marks Australia’s first victory over Sri Lanka in a T20I in Australia!
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Wicket
V Sanjaya run out 5 (3 Balls)
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Small crowd. 19,328 the final attendance
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FOUR
Not a bad way to get off the mark in your first ever hit as a number 11 batsmen!
Full and outside off, Sanjaya clears his front leg and crunches it through the covers. Beautiful!
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Vikum Sanjaya comes in to bat for the first time in a T20 International
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Wicket
Full and outside off, Malinga drives it to mid-off but is towing a boat! Finch swoops down on the ball and nails a direct hit at the non-striker’s end. Malinga is well short of his ground
SL Malinga run out 1 (3 Balls)
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17th Over Complete
Sri Lanka: 8/140
Kulasekara 7*
Malinga 1*
48 Required off 18 Balls
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Adam Zampa in this series
Wkts: 5 | Ave: 10.20 | Econ: 6.3 | S/R: 9.6 #AUSvSL pic.twitter.com/3bbIKAhuVO
— Martin Smith (@martinsmith9994) February 22, 2017
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Wicket
The old back of the hand slower ball sucks Siriwardana in! He does not pick this at all. He eyes up the leg side with a slap but only manages to sky it in the air. Faulker completes the caught and bowled delivery. Game over
A Siriwardana c & b Faulkner 35 (27 Balls)
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16th Over Complete
Sri Lanka: 7/136
Siriwardana 33*
Kulasekara 6*
52 Required off 24 Balls
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FOUR
Perfectly struck straight drive from Kulasekara, in fact it ends up so straight that it hits the stumps at the other end, but still has enough energy on the ball to run away past mid-on for four
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SIX
Short delivery from Richardson, Siriwardana swings hard and clears the mid-wicket boundary. Perfectly timed
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15th Over Complete
Sri Lanka: 7/121
Siriwardana 25*
Kulasekara 0*
67 Required off 30 Balls
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Wicket
Faulkner angles it down leg, Prasanna connects well – trying to work it over deep backward square but doesn’t get enough on it, holing out to Richardson in the deep.
S Prasanna c Richardson b Faulkner 12 (8 Balls)
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FOUR
Sliding down the leg side, Prasanna swipes it behind deep backward square leg for four
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Faulkner comes back into the attack
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14th Over Complete
Sri Lanka: 6/112
Siriwardana 23*
Prasanna 7*
76 Required off 36 Balls
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A brilliant spell from Ada Zampa, ending his night with figures of 3/25
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FOUR
Prasanna hits his first boundary of the evening.
short legbreak outside off, Prasanna rocks back and cutS in the air between backward point and cover.
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Cummins was very expensive in BBL|06, yeh Tye wasn’t as economical as previous years, yet there is not doubting he was better than Cummins in that department.
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Very strange that they didn’t pick him. Especially after bowling well in the first game. Probably Langer wanting to play his Perth boys. Joke
Australia vs Sri Lanka: Third T20 live scores, blog
Australia vs Sri Lanka: Third T20 live scores, blog