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September 18, 2007
Sri Lanka Easily Beat Bangladesh

Johannesburg
Irresponsible batting by Bangladesh nullified their fine bowling effort and led to their 64-run defeat by Sri Lanka in a Super Eights match of the Twenty20 World Championship here Tuesday.

With this win, Sri Lanka opened their account with two points and come at par with Australia, who have also played two matches like the islanders. Pakistan lead Group F with four points.

Bangladesh bowled well to restrict Sri Lanka to 147 for five wickets in the allocated 20 overs. Jehan Mubarak was the top scorer with an unbeaten 31 off just 19 balls (2x4s, 1x6).

But when Bangladesh's turn came to bat, they played hara-kiri and gifted their wickets away. All batsmen tried to play shots without getting eyes in. It was inexplicable batting from even the senior batsmen like captain Mohammed Ashraful.

The result was that the entire team was bundled out for 83 in 15.5 overs, with the top individual score being 18. Aftab Ahmed and Shakib Al Hasan made 18 each as only four batsmen reached double figures.

Pacer Dilhara Fernando was adjudged the Man of the Match for his two-wicket burst, though Chaminda Vaas and Sanath Jayasuriya also took the same number of scalps.

SCOREBOARD

Sri Lanka vs. Bangladesh, Twenty20 World Championship, at New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg

Sri Lanka:
Upul Tharanga c Mushfiqur b Rasel 23
Sanath Jayasuriya c Mahmudullah b Mortaza 0
Kuma Sangakkara b Mahmudullah 20
Mahela Jayawardene b Razzak 30
Chamara Silva lbw b Shakib 12
Tillakaratne Dilshan not out 21
Jehan Mubarak not out 31
Extras: (b 4, lb 3, w 2, nb 1) 10
Total: (for five wickets in 20 overs) 147

Fall of wickets: 1-5 (Jayasuriya, 0.3 overs), 2-37 (Tharanga, 5.1), 3-59 (Sangakkara, 9.3), 4-84 (Silva, 12.6), 5-96 (Jayawardene, 14.5)

Bowling:
Mashrafe Mortaza 4 0 39 1
Syed Rasel 4 1 26 1 6.50
Mohammad Ashraful 2 0 14 0 (1nb)
Mohammed Mahmudullah 4 0 19 1
Shakib Al Hasan 3 0 22 1
Abdur Razzak 3 0 20 1 (2w)

Bangladesh:
Tamim Iqbal c Malinga b Fernando 3
Mohammed Nazimuddin lbw b Vaas 0
Aftab Ahmed b Fernando 18
Mohammad Ashraful c Dilshan b Vaas 4
Shakib Al Hasan b Maharoof 18
Nadif Chowdhury run out (Malinga/Dilshan) 5
Mohammed Mahmudullah c Mubarak b Jayasuriya 16
Mashrafe Mortaza b Malinga 12
Mushfiqur Rahim run out (Maharoof/Sangakkara) 1
Abdur Razzak c Sangakkara b Jayasuriya 5
Syed Rasel not out 0
Extras: (lb 1) 1
Total: (for 10 wickets in 15.5 overs) 82

Fall of wickets: 1-1 (Nazimuddin, 0.5 overs), 2-21 (Iqbal, 3.2), 3-21 (Ahmed, 3.4), 4-31 (Ashraful, 6.2), 5-40 (Chowdhury, 8.1), 6-53 (Shakib, 9.6), 7-66 (Mortaza, 12.4), 8-68 (Rahim, 12.6), 9-80 (Mahmudullah, 15.1)

Bowling:
Chaminda Vaas 4 0 14 2
Dilhara Fernando 3 1 21 2
Ferveez Maharoof 3 0 16 1
Tillakaratne Dilshan 2 0 19 0
Lasith Malinga 2 0 8 1
Sanath Jayasuriya 1.5 0 4 2

Result: Sri Lanka won by 64 runs
Points: Sri Lanka 2
Toss: Bangladesh (chose to bowl)
Man of the Match: Dilhara Fernando (Sri Lanka)
Umpires: Mark Benson (England) and Daryl Harper (Australia)
TV umpire: Nigel Llong (England)
Match referee: Chris Broad (England)

IANS | September 18, 2007  

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