Sri Lanka beat Bangladesh in 3rd T 20 of series,2014

Sri Lanka was scheduled to play a 3 Match T 20 International Series in Bangladesh in 2014. 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 as both are ranked at 3 and 8. The 3rd T 20 international match was to be played on Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chittagong, Bangladesh on 15^th Feb 2014.

Bangladesh won the toss and opts to bat first; this is how Bangladesh team and 11 was looking like in this 3rd T 20 international match: Mashrafe Mortaza (c), Farhad Reza, Shakib Al Hasan, Tamim Iqbal, Rubel Hossain, Shamsur Rahman, Nasir Hossain, S Rahman, M Mithun (wk), A Haque, Arafat Sunny

And Sri Lanka team and 11 was looking like this in this 3rd T 20 international Match: Kumar Sangakkara (wk), Tillakaratne Dilshan, Lasith Malinga, Nuwan Kulasekara, Ajantha Mendis, Angelo Mathews, T Perera, Dinesh Chandimal (c), Sachithra Senanayake, S Prasanna, Kusal Perera

Bangladesh did not bat well and was able to post total of only 140 runs in 20 over’s at the loss of 8 wickets and with top scores of T Iqbal who made 40 runs in 40 balls with 3 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 100 runs in 100 balls and S A Hasan who made 30 runs in 15 balls with 2 4’s and 2 six at the strike rate of 200 runs in 100 balls.

Sri Lanka was needed to score 141 runs in 20 over’s to win this match.

Sri Lanka batted well and was able to chase the score of 141 runs in 18 over’s at the loss of 5 wickets and won the game by 5 wickets in hand and top scores by K Perera who made 45 runs in 45 balls with 1 4’s and 3 six at the strike rate of 100 runs in 100 balls.

Sri Lanka won the match by 5 wickets in hand and now this 3 Match T 20 international series ends at 3-0 in favor of Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka won the series.

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