Australia beat Sri Lanka in 5th 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 5^th ONE DAY international match was to be played on R A Premadasa Stadium, Colombo, Sri Lanka on 22^nd Aug 2011. Sri Lanka already won the T 20 Int. series 3-0.

Sri Lanka won the toss and opts to bowl first; this is how Sri Lanka team and 11 was looking like in this 5^th 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 5^th 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, M Clarke

Australia did not bat very well and was able to post total of only 211 runs in 46.1 over’s at the loss of 10 wickets and with top scores of S Watson who made 56 runs in 84 balls with 6 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 67 runs in 100 balls and M Clarke who made 47 runs in 67 balls with 3 4’s and 0 six at the strike rate of 70 runs in 100 balls.

Sri Lanka was needed to score 212 runs in 50 over’s to win this match.

Sri Lanka batted very well and was able to chase the score of 212 runs in 47 over’s at the loss of 6 wickets and won the game by 4 wickets in hand and top scores by M jaya who made 71 runs in 119 balls with 6 4’s and 0 six at the strike rate of 60 runs in 100 balls.

Sri Lanka won the match by 4 wickets in hand and now this 7 Match ONE DAY international series stands at 3-2 in favor of Australia with 2 more games to play.

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