Australia beat Sri Lanka in 4th ODI of series,2011

Australia was scheduled to play a 7 Match ONE DAY International Series in Sri Lanka in 2011. Both teams have great players and all rounder’s and match winners and it would be interesting to see them battle in this series and who will be crowned as the winner after the series. The 4th ONE DAY international match was to be played on R A Premadasa Stadium, Colombo, Sri Lanka on 20th Aug 2011. Sri Lanka already won the T 20 Int. series 3-0.

Sri Lanka won the toss and opts to bat first; this is how Sri Lanka team and 11 was looking like in this 4th ONE DAY international match: Mahela Jayawardene, Kumar Sangakkara (wk), Tillakaratne Dilshan (c),Rangana Herath, U Tharanga, Dhammika Prasad, Dilruwan Perera,Angelo Mathews,  S Randiv, Dinesh Chandimal, Jeevan Mendis

And Australia team and 11 was looking like this in this 4th ONE DAY international Match: Brett Lee, Shane Watson, Brad Haddin (wk), Ricky Ponting (c), Mitchell Johnson, David Hussey, Shaun Marsh, M Hussey, David Warner, Steve O’Keefe, Steven Smith

Sri Lanka did not bat very well and was able to post total of only 132 runs in 38.4 over’s at the loss of 10 wickets and with top scores of M Jaya who made 53 runs in 102 balls with 4 4’s and 0 six at the strike rate of 52 runs in 100 balls and Kumara S who made 31 runs in 56 balls with 1 4’s and 0 six at the strike rate of 55 runs in 100 balls.

Australia was needed to score 133 runs in 50 over’s to win this match.

Australia batted very well and was able to chase the score of 133 runs in 28 over’s at the loss of 5 wickets and won the game by 5 wickets in hand and top scores by S Marsh who made 70 runs in 80 balls with 11 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 87 runs in 100 balls.

Australia won the match by 5 wickets in hand and now this 7 Match ONE DAY international series stands at 3-1 in favor of Australia with 3 more games to play.

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