Josh Hazlewood’s four-wicket haul and an unbeaten opening stand by Aaron Finch and David Warner helped Australia make a superb begin to its tour of Sri Lanka, profitable the primary T20 by 10 wickets
Josh Hazlewood’s four-wicket haul and an unbeaten opening stand by Aaron Finch and David Warner helped Australia make a superb begin to its tour of Sri Lanka, profitable the primary T20 by 10 wickets
Josh Hazlewood starred as Australia made a superb begin to its tour of Sri Lanka, profitable the primary Twenty20 by 10 wickets on Tuesday.
Australia, the T20 world champion, was chasing a modest goal of 128 at R. Premadasa Stadium in Colombo and obtained residence with six overs to spare to take a 1-0 lead within the three-match collection. It was Australia’s third 10-wicket win in its T20 historical past.
Sri Lanka’s good begin lower quick
Sri Lanka had obtained off to a superb begin. After scoring 50 for one within the six overs of energy play, Charith Asalanka (38) and Pathum Nissanka (36) prolonged their second wicket stand to 61 runs and the hosts have been trying set to put up one thing within the vary of 160 runs.
Mitchell Starc, who was costly earlier on, broke the stand when Nissanka was cleaned up by a yorker.
Hazlewood then picked up three wickets in an over to cut back Sri Lanka to 103 for 5 because the hosts misplaced 4 wickets for 2 runs within the house of 13 deliveries.
Australia was wonderful within the subject and that multiplied Sri Lanka’s miseries as there have been two run outs. The hosts misplaced their final 9 wickets for 28 runs.
Hazlewood, Starc impress
Hazlewood hardly put a foot incorrect and completed with 4 for 16 in his 4 overs throughout his man-of-the-match efficiency. Starc claimed three for 26.
“It was quite hot out there and the wicket was slow,” Hazlewood said. “We bowled well as a group and the result shows. The plan was to bowl back of a length. After those first few overs, we managed to pull things off.”
Warner, Finch wrap it up
Openers Aaron Finch and David Warner have been concerned in a 134-run stand for the primary wicket as Australia cruised to an enormous win in entrance of a offered out crowd of 28,000. Finch had been given out leg earlier than wicket to Maheesh Theekshana within the third ball of the innings. But the captain efficiently overturned the choice.
Australia scored 59 runs within the energy play, choosing up boundaries comfortably because the bowling wasn’t penetrative.
Warner reached his half-century in 32 deliveries and was unbeaten on 70 with seven boundaries whereas Finch, who reached his fifty in 37 balls, completed on 61 with 4 fours and 4 sixes.
“With the ball when Josh is bowling those consistent lines we know how tough it is,” Finch said. “We wanted them to take risks and it worked for us today. Pretty happy with my performance too. It was nice to have a partnership with Davy. It was a really good performance by us overall.”
Shanaka sad with batters
Sri Lanka captain Dasun Shanaka faulted his workforce’s batting.
“Our batting failed miserably. It’s the first game of the series and hopefully we would be able to bounce back,” he said. “We have been losing wickets after getting good starts. It puts us under immense pressure leading into the next game. I guess one win will give us confidence and help us to compete well.”
The second sport of the collection is on the similar venue on Wednesday with groups transferring to Kandy for the finale. The T20s shall be adopted by 5 ODIs and two exams.
Source: www.thehindu.com
