Match Details
9:15 PM IST: Ovaise: Australia have won by 4 wickets and it was quite comfortable towards the end. Sri Lanka have won the 5-match series 3-2!!
Let’s have a recap, Sri Lanka won the toss and opted to bat first on a dry-looking surface. They got off to a disastrous start, Josh Hazlewood removed both the openers cheaply and Kusal Mendis walked into bat and looks quite busy. Dinesh Chandimal failed to grab the opportunity in his comeback game as he departed and the hosts were 35/3 at the end of 10 overs.
Charith Asalanka the man of the match from the previous game walked in and along with Kusal Mendis steadied the ship and stitched up a good partnership before disaster struck and Asalanka was run out. Mendis was hit wicket on the very next ball. Dunith Wellalage walked in and smashes his first ball for a boundary through covers and got out the very next ball trying to hit one over the mid-on fielder. Shanaka too was knocked over in the same over and Sri Lanka were in deep deep trouble.
The hosts were 85-8 in the 24th over and looked like they were going to get bundled out for under the 100-run mark, Chamika Karunaratne along with debutant Pramod Madushan built a solid partnership for the ninth wicket. Karunaratne kept playing his strokes and the debutant supported him nicely from the other end. They both put 58 between them before Madushan was dismissed on 15. Karunaratne hit some lusty blows in the end but his departure on 75 meant that they finished their innings on 160.