Lahiru Thirimanne
guides Sri Lanka to reverberating win
Sri
Lanka's
coach Graham Ford predictable far improved
from his men after an abject demonstrate in the 1st ODI, and in Adelaide they duly delivered. A highly restricted
bowling assembly laid bare Australian
infirmity against the seaming ball before Lahiru
Thirimanne anchored a contented chase on a low pitch in the 2nd
match of the series at Adelaide Oval.
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The visitors gone Upul Tharanga in the 1st over of their follow but were
largely unruffled thereafter, as the surface eased after earlier contribution
helpful seam movement for Sri Lanka's
bowlers. Thirimanne reached a
deserved century by wounding Xavier Doherty
toward the back of point for the winning runs with 8th wickets in hand and 59 balls to additional, having been
accompanied for much of the quest by an atypically reserved Tillakaratne Dilshan.
scrupulous praise was also due to Nuwan Kulasekara & Angelo Mathews, who took the new balls
and set Australia on the cynical by
moving the ball just enough from side to side the air and off the seam, while
keeping the runs down. Lasith Malinga &Thisara Perera then
followed up with wickets of their own. Named in place of the hurt Dinesh Chandimal, the first appearance gloveman Kushal Perera reserved
wicket tidily and held four catches.
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Moreover their problems with seam gracious
conditions suggestive of England, Australia were uncomfortable further by
Brad Haddin's struggles with an evident hamstring strain, which began to
affect him during the final stages of a rearguard innings of 50 and then
forced a usual dialogue with the team physio
Alex Kountouris in the early overs of the sundown session.
Finally Brad Haddin surrendered to the hurt, leaving Phillip Hughes to take up duties as Australia's rough and ready gloveman for the 2nd time
this summer. The hosts can be expecting their team to be appreciably reinforced
when the national selector John
Inverarity names the squad for the next two matches of the series, having ongoing
well in Melbourne but fallen away deficiently in Adelaide.
After Tharanga's early leaving to a Clint
McKay delivery on a slope across
him, Dilshan and Thirimanne played with good quality
sense and shot choice. Dilshan had
one LBW appeal by Doherty referred
to the 3rd umpire, but the television confirmation proved too
marginal for an wrong side up decision.
They were not to be alienated until
only a further 34 runs were necessary. By that point Australia had lost Brad Haddin and also the bowling of the
debutant Kane Richardson, who followed up a first ball duck with the bat by distress
the ignominy of being drummed out of the bowling attack for frequently running
on the pitch in his follow from side to side. It is a problem that will need
some technological work to correct.
The first suggestion that Australia were not at their sharpest
came in the opening over when Aaron
Finch short the ball straight to square leg and set off for a single - Phillip Hughes would have been out by yards had the ball set up stumps or
wicketkeeper. lucky there, Finch was to be out for his 2nd low score in as many matches and again fell to
a unsure stroke, nearly Angelo’s Mathews to short cover after he had
nudged Ajantha Mendis into the wicketkeeper's gloves at the MCG.
Phillip
Hughes
struggled to find the confidence he had managed while making a century on
debut, and was pinned in front of the stumps by Kulasekara, wasting Australia's
only review on a ball that pitched in line and would have taken middle and off.
David Hussey and George Bailey briefly steadied the
innings in a stand of 39, but the stand-in captain's
providential stay, punctuated by numerous edges, and was ended when he pulled lasith Malinga to midwicket where lahiru Thirimanne held a straight
catch.
Steve
Smith,
brought in for Usman Khawaja, oblique
at fluency during his brief stay but troop loosely at a Perera delivery that seamed back into him and was taken in the rear.
To this point Hussey had looked the
most collected of the batsmen, but his run out in one more mix-up and a neat Angelo’s Mathews leg cutter to take
away Glenn Maxwell, put Australia in profound trouble.
Cutting and Haddin resisted for 15 overs and 57 runs, the ex- showing glimpses
of the batting skill he had confirmed for Queensland
over the past two summers. Finally Malinga's pace and unique angle drew an edge
from Cutting, and next ball his fellow debutant Richardson was bewildered by a dipping slower ball and pinned LBW.
Clint
McKay
averted the hat-trick but then fell casualty
to a decision upturned for reasons known only to the 3rd umpire Richard Kettleborough, for replays
showed no concrete evidence of an edge behind from Perera's bowling, and HotSpot was no more informative.
The final man Doherty's arrival moved Brad
Haddin to swing a potent six into the Members Stand. He picked out
midwicket when frustrating to repeat the shot from Mendis, leaving the hosts with a sorry total that would speedily
prove to be insufficient.
Innings
|
Dot balls
|
4s
|
6s
|
PP1
|
PP2
|
41-50
|
NB/Wides
|
Australia
|
196
|
14
|
2
|
21-2
|
20-2/36-40
|
30-2/46.5
|
0/4
|
Sri lanka
|
143
|
17
|
1
|
32-1
|
26-0/36-40
|
4-0/40.1
|
0/2
|
Sri Lanka 2/172 (lahriuThirimanne
102*, Dilshan 51) thrash Australia
170 (Brad Haddin 50, lasith Malinga
3-32) by 8 wickets
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