Sri Lanka Beat Australia in 3rd 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 3rdONE DAY international match was to be played on Mahinda Rajapaksa International Stadium, Hambantota, Sri Lanka on 16th Aug 2011. Sri Lanka already won the T 20 Int. series 3-0.

Australia won the toss and opts to bowl first; this is how Sri Lanka team and 11 was looking like in this 3rdONE 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 3rdONE 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 batted very well and was able to post total of 286 runs in 50 over’s at the loss of 9 wickets and with top scores of Upal T who made 111 runs in 139 balls with 12 4’s and 0 six at the strike rate of 80 runs in 100 balls and T Dilshan who made 55 runs in 59 balls with 4 4’s and 0 six at the strike rate of 93 runs in 100 balls.

Australia was needed to score 287 runs in 50 over’s to win this match.

Australia batted well but was able to chase the score of 287 and was only able to make 208 runs in 44.2 over’s at the loss of 10 wickets and lost the game by 78 runs and top scores by M Hussey who made 63 runs in 76 balls with 5 4’s and 0 six at the strike rate of 83 runs in 100 balls.

Sri Lanka won the match by 63 runs and now this 7 Match ONE DAY international series stands at 2-1 in favor of Australia with 4 more games to play.

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