Player of the Match
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Best performances - Batsmen

MS Wade
MS Wade
76(88) 3x4 - 0x6
Control %79%
  • Productive Shot
  • flick
  • 20 runs
  • 0x4 - 0x6
6 7 8 15 17 0 2 21
BKG Mendis
BKG Mendis
69(69) 9x4 - 0x6
Control %91%
  • Productive Shot
  • off drive
  • 20 runs
  • 3x4 - 0x6
1 4 12 7 0 22 7 16

Best performances - Bowlers

MA Aponso
MA Aponso
O9.2
M0
R18
W4
Eco1.92
RHB
OFFLEG
1W
1W2W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
NLTC Perera
NLTC Perera
O5
M0
R33
W3
Eco6.60
RHB
OFFLEG
1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
1W
1W

Match Details

Toss

Sri Lanka , elected to bat first

Player Of The Match

Series result

5-match series level 1-1

Match number

Season

Hours of play (local time)

14:30 start, First Session 14:30-18:00, Interval 18:00-18:45, Second Session 18:45-22:15

Match days

24 August 2016 - day/night match (50-over match)

TV Umpires

Reserve Umpire

Match Referee

Scorer: M Venkat Raghav | Commentator: Vishal Dikshit

Time for the presentation:

Angelo Mathews, also the Man of the Match: Chandimal and Kusal batted brilliantly upfront, to set the platform. It wasn't the easiest wicket to bat on so I batted till the 46th over. It was a good cricketing wicket, even though it spun. We needed that win and Aponso was brilliant, amazing and he bowled with a lot of effort. We've seen the likes of Kusal Mendis, de Silva and they are young and can go a long way.

Steven Smith: We didn't excite well enough with the ball or in the field today. Credit to SL for batting well and I thought 250 was par and they crossed it easily. Aponso bowls well, quite similar to Herath, some skid on and some turn. Some of our batsmen got starts
There's always pressure playing away from home and some of the guys have adapted and hopefully we can improve. Faulkner bowled nice today, the damage was already done when he took the hat-trick.

That's all from the second ODI in Colombo. do join us again for the third ODI on August 28, in Dambulla. For today you can still enjoy the ODI at The Rose Bowl where Pakistan have set England 261 to chase. Until next time, goodbye and good luck from Vishal and George.

9.52pm That's a collective performance from SL to make it 1-1. The first innings saw a lot of momentum shifts with three fifties and three wickets for each of Starc, Faulkner (hat-trick) and Zampa. In Australia's chase, SL made sure they got the more dangerous batsmen out of the way early before Mathew Wade's career-best 76. But the asking rate kept creeping up and the SL spinners did the rest. Four wickets for Aponso in only his second ODI after Thisara Perera had done the early damage. An 82-run win for SL and the series is level.

Chris: "I really think Aponso could Herath's replacement long term at test level watching the way he has bowled in this match and with his first-class figures as well."

Russell: "How is that the Aussies haven't hit 1 SIX in this match? Most of these players have T20 experience so why haven't they applied it here when urgently needed?"

47.2
W
Aponso to Faulkner, OUT, flighted again, this time Faulkner is hit on the pad in front of leg stump, SL appeal and the finger has gone up. But Faulkner reviews it. Replays show no inside edge and ball-tracking shows it was 'hitting' the stumps. Australia all out for 206

JP Faulkner lbw b Aponso 13 (29m 19b 1x4 0x6) SR: 68.42

47.1
0
Aponso to Faulkner, no run, tossed up towards middle, Faulkner blocks it back

END OF OVER:
47 | 4 Runs | AUS: 206/9 (83 runs required from 18 balls, RR: 4.38, RRR: 27.66)

  • Nathan Lyon4 (6b)
  • James Faulkner13 (17b)
  • Seekkuge Prasanna8-1-48-1
  • Amila Aponso9-0-18-3
46.6
0
Prasanna to Lyon, no run, six balls, six sweeps and it ends the way it started - fails to connect
46.5
2
Prasanna to Lyon, 2 runs, sweep again and gets an under edge to make the ball go through the keeper's legs for two
46.4
2
Prasanna to Lyon, 2 runs, fourth sweep in a row and he connects this time, two towards deep midwicket
46.3
0
Prasanna to Lyon, no run, third attempted sweep and misses it again

Faulkner's hat-trick

5

No. of Australia bowlers to take a hat-trick in ODIs before James Faulkner. He is the second Australia bowler to take one against SL after Daniel Christian.

only the second

2

Century stands for Sri Lanka's sixth wicket in ODIs against Australia. The first one was between Aravinda de Silva and Roshan Mahanama in 1996.

Dismissed finally

180

Runs scored by Chandimal between dismissals in ODI v AUS - the 2nd highest by a SL batsman v AUS after Aravinda de Silva's 276 runs across 4 inns in 1996-99

Fast off the blocks

5

No. of fifties for Kusal Mendis in just nine ODIs. This is his fourth fifty in his last-five ODIs.

Expensive over

5

No. of instances of Australia spinners going for 20 or more runs in an over in ODIs since 2002 before Travis Head. Head's is the only one inside ten overs.