Player of the Match
Player of the Match
2989dThe Report by Sidharth Monga

Varied, unorthodox Sri Lanka hammer West Indies

A delightfully unorthodox Sri Lankan attack working at close to its best handcuffed a power-packed West Indies line-up, conceding just 129 runs even though they got just five wickets in the 20 overs

Match Centre

Statistics

Best performances - Batsmen

DPMD Jayawardene
DPMD Jayawardene
65(49) 10x4 - 1x6
Control %88%
  • Productive Shot
  • off side drive on front foot
  • 21 runs
  • 4x4 - 0x6
5 2 0 13 15 8 1 21
MN Samuels
MN Samuels
50(35) 4x4 - 2x6
Control %68%
  • Productive Shot
  • leg glance
  • 26 runs
  • 1x4 - 2x6
11 0 1 0 5 5 21 7

Best performances - Bowlers

BAW Mendis
O4
M1
R12
W2
Eco3
RHB
OFFLEG
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
BMAJ Mendis
BMAJ Mendis
O2
M0
R12
W1
Eco6
RHB
OFFLEG
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH

Scorer: M Venkat Raghav | Commentator: Kanishkaa Balachandran

Presentation

Sammy: The bowlers bowled really well to us. NZ game is a must-win for us. We are always a boundary hitting team. We bowled too short and wide. The SL bowlers bowled fuller and we didn't do that enough.

Jayawardene: "Overall a very good effort. When they were going after our bowlers I just kept changing the bowlers. Once we got through the first 12 overs I told Kumar we should finish this as quickly as possible."

Jayawardene is also the Man of the Match.

The big one's coming up tomorrow - India v Pakistan. Before that, Australia v South Africa. Your Sunday's packed.

That's it from us. Thanks for the mails and your company. Cheers!

End of match: That's SL's best win in T20 internationals in terms of balls remaining - 28. After Australia yesterday, we've witnessed yet another comprehensive thrashing. Really disappointing from WI's point of view. Their dependence on Gayle was exposed and the rest were never quite good enough to challenge the hosts. There were too many rubbish deliveries.

Not taking any credit away from Sri Lanka. Their fielding was sharp, the bowlers didn't give away too many scoring opportunities and the batsmen never looked in trouble.

15.2
2
Gayle to Sangakkara, 2 runs, overthrow to seal the win! Sangakkara came down the track and chipped it to short extra cover who flung himself to his left and couldn't pluck it, the throw to the bowler's end was wide
15.1
0
Gayle to Sangakkara, no run, gets across and pushes it to the off side

END OF OVER:
15 | 17 Runs | SL: 128/1 (2 runs required from 30 balls, RR: 8.53, RRR: 0.40)

  • Mahela Jayawardene65 (49b)
  • Kumar Sangakkara37 (32b)
  • Ravi Rampaul4-0-39-1
  • Daren Sammy4-0-28-0
14.6
4
Rampaul to Jayawardene, FOUR, nearly finished it off! Pitched up outside off and he lofts crisply down to wide long-off, one bounce and four
14.5
4
Rampaul to Jayawardene, FOUR, Jayawardene at his best! Back to his silent-killing best, makes room and cheekily dabs the ball past the keeper and down to third man, really dents a bowler's confidence
14.4
1b
Rampaul to Sangakkara, 1 bye, slower ball outside the off stump and he swings and misses, the keeper fumbles
14.3
0
Rampaul to Sangakkara, no run, stays back and punches it towards cover point

ICC Men's T20 World Cup

Group 1
TeamMWLPTNRR
SL33060.998
WI3214-0.375
ENG3122-0.397
NZ3030-0.169
Group 2
TeamMWLPTNRR
AUS32140.464
PAK32140.273
IND3214-0.274
SA3030-0.421
Group A
TeamMWLPTNRR
IND22042.825
ENG21120.65
AFG2020-3.475
Group B
TeamMWLPTNRR
AUS22042.184
WI2011-1.855
IRE2011-2.092
Group C
TeamMWLPTNRR
SA22043.598
SL21121.852
ZIM2020-3.624
Group D
TeamMWLPTNRR
PAK22040.706
NZ21121.15
BAN2020-1.868