GEELONG: Opener Kusal Mendis pummeled a 44-ball 79 as Asian bosses Sri Lanka beat the Netherlands by 16 rushes to clear into the Very 12 p...
GEELONG: Opener Kusal Mendis pummeled a 44-ball 79 as Asian bosses Sri Lanka beat the Netherlands by 16 rushes to clear into the Very 12 phase of the Twenty20 World Cup on Thursday.
The world's eighth-positioned group looted 162-6, impacting 102 of them off the last 10 overs to set up a major objective which the Dutch couldn't reach, completing on 146-9.
In which Very 12 gathering they play not entirely settled after the later game in Geelong among Namibia and Joined Middle Easterner Emirates.
A success for the African side will take out the Dutch and send them through, as they as of now have an unrivaled net run rate. In the event that the UAE upset Namibia, the Dutch will advance.
It is the third progressive time Sri Lanka have arrived at the Very 12 and they will expect to rehash their heroics from 2014, when Dinesh Chandimal skippered them to the title.
Yet, it was a rough street to arrive, paralyzed by Namibia in the competition's initial game prior to pulverizing UAE and presently the Netherlands.
In the wake of winning the throw and deciding to bat, Sri Lanka began gradually with Pathum Nissanka and Mendis trudging to only 22 off the initial five overs.
Nissanka was dropped in the fifth over, and came unraveled on 14 when unfriendly speed bowler Paul Van Meekeren got back to the assault and sent down a yorker.
Dhananjaya de Silva followed him back to structure the following ball, out lbw, as Sri Lanka lived perilously with incalculable possibilities missing the mark concerning the defenders.
Charith Asalanka and Mendis hunkered down in a 60-run stand to move forward the run rate before Asalanka was gotten behind off all-rounder Bas de Leede for 31.
Mendis raised his 10th T20 50 years with a six then, at that point, smacked progressive sixes in the penultimate over before he was out going for another limit, nearly conveying his bat.
In spite of missing harmed pace leads Dushmantha Chameera and Pramod Madushan, a Sri Lankan assault with substitutions Lahiru Kumara and Binura Fernando kept the Dutch under control in the initial overs.
Opener Vikramjit Singh was out for seven, got by Dusan Shanaka off Maheesh Theekshana then Kumara got the large wicket of rising star De Leede for 14.
The accomplished Colin Ackermann went for a brilliant duck to the twist of Hasaranga de Silva as they arrived at 63-3 at midway.
Opener Max O'Dowd (71 not out) gamely held tight however when commander Scott Edwards was bowled by Fernando after a speedy fire 21 they drooped from 100-4 to 109-8 and the game was everything except over.
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