2894dThe Report by Karthik Krishnaswamy

Sri Lanka steamroll Zimbabwe on green track

Sent in to bat on a green and slightly damp Harare surface, Zimbabwe lasted only 41.3 overs, leaving Sri Lanka a target of 155 that they chased down breezily courtesy Dhananjaya de Silva's unbeat

Match Centre

Statistics

Best performances - Batsmen

DM de Silva
78(75) 12x4 - 0x6
Control %86%
  • Productive Shot
  • pull
  • 19 runs
  • 4x4 - 0x6
2 4 14 5 11 6 3 33
PJ Moor
PJ Moor
47(52) 1x4 - 4x6
Control %83%
  • Productive Shot
  • slog shot
  • 12 runs
  • 0x4 - 2x6
2 4 15 0 5 2 4 15

Best performances - Bowlers

DAS Gunaratne
DAS Gunaratne
O6.3
M1
R21
W3
Eco3.23
RHB
OFFLEG
1W
1W
1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
RAS Lakmal
RAS Lakmal
O7
M0
R19
W2
Eco2.71
RHB
OFFLEG
1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
1W

Match Details

Toss

Sri Lanka , elected to field first

Player Of The Match

Match number

Season

Hours of play (local time)

09.30 start, First Session 9.30-13.00, Interval 13.00-13.45, Second Session 13.45-17.15

Match days

14 November 2016 (50-over match)

TV Umpires

Reserve Umpire

Match Referee

Points

Sri Lanka 5, Zimbabwe 0

Scorer: Chandan Duorah | Commentator: Nikhil Kalro

3.11pm Sri Lanka cruise to the target with so much ease that they still had more than 15 overs to secure the bonus point. Eventually, it's an eight-wicket win with 153 balls remaining as Sri Lanka take the bonus point with them. A bad day for the hosts began with the toss and their dire situation kept worsening from there. In the end, 154 was nowhere near enough. Dhananja de Silva made his highest ODI score, Dickwella and Kusal Perera made handy contributions en route to a rather comfortable victory.

Presentation time.

Dhananjaya de Silva is the Man of the Match: "Low-scoring game so I wanted to attack in the first few overs. Gloomy condition so ball was moving around in the first few overs."

Upul Tharanga: "Good feeling. Everyone did really well. The bowlers stuck to the plan and bowled in the right areas. They knew the wicket will do something."

Graeme Cremer: " In losing the toss, we knew it was going to be tough. too many soft wickets. It was not a 150 wicket, if we could have grounded to 220, who knows? We have to come back better, we are better than this. The bowlers toiled hard."

24.3
2
Panyangara to Mendis, 2 runs, 125 kph, that will be it. Full delivery on off and middle, Mendis looked to go straight but skewed the ball off the inside edge, the ball finds the gap at midwicket and the two runs required is completed.

Lakshitha: "Sri Lanka's plan should be to prepare a solid batting line up for the South Africa tour. And they should have a solid number 3 batsman for that. Kusal Mendis is the front running candidate but the team management keeps on playing fringe players in that position for some peculiar reason."

24.2
1
Panyangara to de Silva, 1 run, good length on off, pushed back past the bowler for a run to mid-off who dives to his right

Could be the last over. Not even half the innings

24.1
0
Panyangara to de Silva, no run, slower offcutter on off, squirted to midwicket who dives to his left, tumbles over

END OF OVER:
24 | 7 Runs | SL: 152/2 (3 runs required from 26 overs, RR: 6.33, RRR: 0.11)

  • Kusal Mendis10 (7b)
  • Dhananjaya de Silva77 (73b)
  • Graeme Cremer5-0-25-0
  • Tinashe Panyangara7-0-34-1
23.6
6
Cremer to Mendis, SIX, that's a poor ball. Drops short on off, Mendis picks the length early, goes deep in his crease and pulls emphatically over midwicket. Just clears the boundary. Clean strike
23.5
0
Cremer to Mendis, no run, 84 kph, pushed away towards cover with the spin
23.4
0
Cremer to Mendis, no run, 86 kph, flat delivery outside off, outside-halved to point

Sri Lanka 2nd innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st56MDKJ PereraDM de Silva
2nd84N DickwellaDM de Silva
3rd15DM de SilvaBKG Mendis