Delhi: The Sri Lanka cricket team defeated Australia by 49 runs in the first ODI played in Colombo to take a 1-0 lead in the 2-match series. Batting first, Sri Lanka scored 214 runs in 46 overs. However, the team had lost their 5 wickets for 55 runs, where the openers could not even touch the double figure. In such a difficult situation, captain Charit Asanka handled the innings by scoring a brilliant century (127). He shared a 77 -run partnership in 69 balls with Dunith Vellalage and 79 runs with Ishaan Malinga, in which Malinga scored just 1 runs. Actuals hit 14 fours and 5 sixes in their 126 balls.
Chasing the target of 214 runs, the Australian team started poorly and 3 wickets fell till 18 runs. In the middle order, Alex Carrie (41) and Aaron Hardy (32) definitely struggled, but could not win the team. As a result, Australia collapsed for 165 runs in 33.5 overs.
Mahesh Tishta of Sri Lanka took 4 wickets for 40 runs in 9.5 overs while bowling deadly. He dismissed Cooper Konoli (3), Marnas Labushen (15), Spencer Johnson (0) and Sean Abbott (20). Apart from this, Asitha Fernando and Dunith Vellalage also took 2-2 wickets.
Carrie completed 2000 ODI runs
Australia’s wicketkeeper batsman Alex Carrie scored 41 runs in 38 balls and during this time he also completed 2000 runs of his ODI career. He has now scored a total 2019 runs in 70 innings of 77 matches with an average of 34.81 and a strike rate of 89.97, including 1 century and 10 half -centuries.
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