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Sri Lanka Beat Australia in 1st T 20 of series, 2011

Australia was scheduled to play a 3 Match T 20 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 1st T 20 international match was to be played on Pallekele International Cricket Stadium, Pallekele, Sri Lanka on 6th Aug 2011.

Australia won the toss and opts to bowl first; this is how Sri Lanka team and 11 was looking like in this 1st T 20 international match: Mahela Jayawardene, Kumar Sangakkara (wk), Tillakaratne Dilshan (c),Rangana Herath, Nuwan Kulasekara, Dhammika Prasad, Dilruwan Perera,Angelo Mathews, Suranga Lakmal, Dinesh Chandimal, Jeevan Mendis

And Australia team and 11 was looking like this in this 1st T 20 international Match: Brett Lee, Shane Watson, Brad Haddin (wk), Cameron White (c), Mitchell Johnson, David Hussey, Shaun Marsh, John Hastings, David Warner, Steve O’Keefe, Steven Smith

Sri Lanka batted very well and was able to post total of 198 runs in 20 over’s at the loss of 3 wickets and with top scores of T Dilshan who made 104 runs in 57 balls with 12 4’s and 5 six at the strike rate of 182 runs in 100 balls and J mendis who made 30 runs in 19 balls with 4 4’s and 0 six at the strike rate of 158 runs in 100 balls.

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Australia was needed to score 199 runs in 20 over’s to win this match.

Australia batted well but was unable to chase the score of 199 and was only able to make 163 runs in 20 over’s at the loss of 8 wicket and lost the game by 35 runs and top scores by D Warner who made 53 runs in 31 balls with 6 4’s and 2 six at the strike rate of 87 runs in 171 balls.

Sri Lanka won the match by 35 runs and now this 3 Match T 20 international series stands at 1-0 in favor of Sri Lanka with 2 more games to play.

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