Sri Lanka (Overs 21-30)
With Sangakkara and Chandimal batting with an increasingly ominous fluency that saw the 100-run partnership come up off 119 deliveries, Lanka looked well on the road to a commanding score even as the Australian bowlers looked increasingly clueless and the fielding developed an occasional ragged edge.
Watson, during this period, introduced Xavier Doherty into the attack as the seventh bowler to be tried – and Chandimal, ...
more Sri Lanka (Overs 21-30)
With Sangakkara and Chandimal batting with an increasingly ominous fluency that saw the 100-run partnership come up off 119 deliveries, Lanka looked well on the road to a commanding score even as the Australian bowlers looked increasingly clueless and the fielding developed an occasional ragged edge.
Watson, during this period, introduced Xavier Doherty into the attack as the seventh bowler to be tried – and Chandimal, who has a particular affinity for spin, danced down to a flighted ball and deposited it high over midwicket to register his second six of the innings. With Lanka looking in danger of running away with the game, Watson finally turned to his star pace bowler Pattinson in the 26th over.
And the move produced the wicket, with the quick hurrying Sangakkara with a short delivery that the batsman attempted to pull, only to get a top edge to Peter Forrest fielding at deep square. The partnership, worth 126 runs at 5.12 (Sangakkara 62, Chandimal 59), dragged Lanka out of the trouble it was in when it lost its two openers with just 17 on the board, and put the batting side well on the road to recovery. At the 30-over mark, Lanka was 144/3, having added 58 runs during this phase for the loss of Sangakkara.
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