Australia 41-50:
Australia’s problem was wickets – six down heading into the final ten overs. The problem became exacerbated when Herath induced Pattinson into clip-driving off his pads and finding Dilshan at mid on. An over later, McKay followed Pattinson back into the shed when Dilshan, despite slipping while trying to stop a Hussey push into the covers off Herath, still managed to fire in a hard, accurate throw for Sangakkara to catch McKay ...
more Australia 41-50:
Australia’s problem was wickets – six down heading into the final ten overs. The problem became exacerbated when Herath induced Pattinson into clip-driving off his pads and finding Dilshan at mid on. An over later, McKay followed Pattinson back into the shed when Dilshan, despite slipping while trying to stop a Hussey push into the covers off Herath, still managed to fire in a hard, accurate throw for Sangakkara to catch McKay out of his ground.
Malinga was brought back in the 44th, but Hussey seemed to have enough confidence in Doherty to allow him to handle him. Mahela gave his ace one over, took him off, switched him around to the other end for another over – the Lankan skipper had, all innings, done his best to camouflage the fact that he had lost two bowling options in Perera and Mathews, both injured, and his use of Malinga was a classic example of stretching scarce resources. And his star bowler had one trick left – a rare ball on the shorter side of length that stopped on Doherty, inducing the scoop that could have been held by the bowler or any of four different fielders converging on it, but ended up in Dilshan’s hands.
Hussey brought it all down to a final over from Kulasekhara with ten needed off six; he gave himself room looking to blast the first ball towards extra cover, but managed only to hit straight to – who else? – Dilshan who took a low, hard catch to put Sri Lanka into the final and send India home with the wooden spoon.
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