Player of the Match
Player of the Match

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Best performances - Batsmen

P Nissanka
54(49) 9x4 - 1x6
Control %57%
  • Productive Shot
  • pull
  • 15 runs
  • 2x4 - 1x6
6 4 7 11 13 4 3 6
BKG Mendis
BKG Mendis
26(25) 2x4 - 1x6
Control %60%
  • Productive Shot
  • flick
  • 15 runs
  • 1x4 - 1x6
0 1 14 0 1 0 0 10

Best performances - Bowlers

DN Wellalage
DN Wellalage
O4
M0
R9
W3
Eco2.25
RHB
OFFLEG
1W
2W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
KIC Asalanka
KIC Asalanka
O2
M0
R6
W2
Eco3.00
RHB
OFFLEG
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
2W

Match Details

Toss

Sri Lanka , elected to bat first

Player Of The Match

Series result

3-match series level 1-1

Match number

Season

Hours of play (local time)

19.00 start, First Session 19.00-20.30, Interval 20.30-20.50, Second Session 20.50-22.20

Match days

15 October 2024 - night match (20-over match)

Reserve Umpire

Match Referee

Scorer: Sudeep Poojar | Commentator: Fidel Fernando (@afidelf)

That's it from us folks. Join us in roughly 44 hours' time for the third Men's T20I. Right now there is a massively tense game going on at the T20 World Cup in Dubai too, so switch over to that and check it out.

Charith Asalanka: "It's an important win for us. The toss was very important. Luckily I won it. Even at the toss we though 160 or 170 was a par score. The openers set the foundation for us. Wellalage has experience in ODI cricket. He didn't look like a debutant to me."

Rovman Powell: "At the halfway stage we were confident we could get 160. But it wasn't really a cricket wicket. It wasn't a T20 wicket. But they used their conditions well. T20 cricket is about match-ups now, and I tried to bowl my left arm spinners to to their right handers. If we think about the third match as a final, we always back West Indies to win finals."

Nissanka is Player of the Match for his fifty: "It's a really hard wicket to bat on and I played to my strengths. We had targeted 160 right from the start. They only had one main spinner, and we wanted to cover his overs and we were able to do that. My leg is ok - it's just a cramp."

Saikrishna : "I guess West Indies would have lost first game as well if not for the rain, which might have made it easier to chase in the powerplay " I think WI were substantially the better team on that day, rain or not. They were just derailed in the powerplay in this game, on a used track. SL did well not to give Motie wickets too.

lunch: "I wish one positive word can be spoken for Nissanka, who was bullied as a liability half way through this match, but is one of the top contenders for POTM. Never judge too harshly until both teams have batted. " I'd give it to Wellalage myself, but yes, in retrospect both Nissanka and Kusal Mendis played good hands. Big shout out to Kusal Perera who crashed 24 off 16 from No. 3 too. Don't sleep on the cameos on these sorts of tracks.

West Indies have crumbled to a double-figure score, with the spinners - led by debutant Wellalage - doing the damage. He's just got that dynamism about his cricket doesn't he? It's just his first T20I game, but there is a tenacity there that suggests Wellalage is going to play many. many more matches in this format. His figures were a spectacular: 3 wickets for 9 runs from 4 overs. Theekshana, Hasaranga, and Asalanka took two apiece.

16.1
W
Theekshana to AS Joseph, OUT, that's it. All over. This was a carrom ball I think. Slowed up, pitched on middle, straightened off the track. Alzarri tried to clip it to leg, but it turned and hit his middle stump instead.

AS Joseph b Theekshana 16 (16m 10b 1x4 1x6) SR: 160.00

himash76: "i think Hasaranga needs to be dropped for yhe next game. His potency has seemed to have left him" Very harsh, Himash. Not quite the trump card he once was, but still a big player for SL I feel.

END OF OVER:
16 | 6 Runs 1 Wkt | WI: 89/9 (74 runs required from 24 balls, RR: 5.56, RRR: 18.50)

  • Alzarri Joseph16 (9b)
  • Shamar Joseph5 (4b)
  • Matheesha Pathirana2-0-12-1
  • Wanindu Hasaranga3-0-32-2
15.6
1
Pathirana to AS Joseph, 1 run, slower ball, on a length, on about off stump. Alzarri works it to leg and keeps strike
15.5
1
Pathirana to S Joseph, 1 run, another whip off his pads, but Dunith Wellalage at deep square leg covers good ground and makes a nice, diving stop. He's having a blinder in the field. This was to a full ball on the pads
15.4
0
Pathirana to S Joseph, no run, full, wide of off, at 148kph, and Shamar is understandably late on the shot. Doesn't touch it
15.3
0
Pathirana to S Joseph, no run, full, wide of off, and Shamar tries to flay that through off and misses
15.2
4
Pathirana to S Joseph, FOUR, uff, that's not bad for a No. 11. Pathirana comes around the wicket to the leftie, and bowls a fast one at the stumps. Shamar gets across and whips off his pads through fine leg for four. Lovely

West Indies 2nd innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st12E LewisBA King
2nd2ADS FletcherE Lewis
3rd3ADS FletcherRL Chase
4th5ADS FletcherSE Rutherford
5th16G MotieSE Rutherford
6th1R PowellSE Rutherford
7th1R ShepherdR Powell
8th20R PowellSK Springer
9th23AS JosephR Powell
10th6AS JosephS Joseph