In reply, Australia was bowled out for 206 in the 48th over.
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Only wicketkeeper Wade’s career-best knock of 76 from 88 deliveries kept Australia’s innings together as the top order again faltered on the sub-continent.
Chandimal survived a very tight lbw appeal on 80, leaving leg-spinner Adam Zampa (3-38) narrowly shy of his first four-wicket haul in one-day internationals. Thisara Perera returned with figures of 3-33.
Vice-Captain David Warner – who skippered the Sunrisers Hyderabad to their first Indian Premier League title earlier this year – will pilot the Australia squad the rest of the way, through three more ODI matches and a pair of T20 Internationals. In addition to the cover drives and pull shots – all hit with a rapid swing of the bat – Dilshan was also an innovator of the lap scoop, and began to regularly slog-sweep medium-pace bowlers.
Skipper Angelo Mathews scored 57 off 60 balls with a boundary and two sixes while Kusal Perera made 54 off 53 balls inclusive of five fours and a six.
Dilshan then proceeded to put on a crucial 73 run partnership for the third wicket, with Dinesh Chandimal.
COLOMBO Sri Lanka’s Thisara Perera has been fined 15 percent of his match fee and Australian Mitchell Starc was reprimanded by the International Cricket Council (ICC) for their behaviour during the second one-day international in Colombo. David Warner will lead the side in the rest of the fixtures in Sri Lanka.
“It took a bit of convincing to get me over the line”.
“I hate missing cricket, but in the long run it will do me a world of good”, Smith was quoted as saying by Cricket Australia on Twitter.
“It would have been nice to go home with a 2-0 but credit to Sri Lanka for the way they played today”. I think I’ve learned a lot about the way I play, particularly white-ball cricket, from the IPL.
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Players are also entitled to bonuses for Test and series victories but none were forthcoming in Sri Lanka – and major improvement will be needed in India if things are to change there. “I thought we could have got 300 plus”. We can rectify that hopefully in the next game. But there was too much to do in the final 10 overs, and their last five wickets fell for just 24 runs. Since 2013, he has averaged 49.18, and he is only the fourth Sri Lanka batsman and 11th batsman overall to pass the 10,000-run mark. Seekkuge Prasanna and Danushka Gunathilaka came in for Lakshan Sandakan and Milinda Siriwardana.
