Sri Lanka beat West Indies by 1 run in the Tri-Nation series

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Sri Lanka Squad
WU Tharanga*, DM de Silva, N Dickwella†, ANPR Fernando, DAS Gunaratne, DSNFG Jayasuriya, KMDN Kulasekara, CBRLS Kumara, RAS Lakmal, BKG Mendis, SS Pathirana, MDKJ Perera, PADLR Sandakan, MD Shanaka, JDF Vandersay

West Indies Squad
JO Holder*, SJ Benn, CR Brathwaite, KC Brathwaite, JL Carter, J Charles, ML Cummins, SO Dowrich, ST Gabriel, SD Hope, E Lewis, JN Mohammed, SP Narine, AR Nurse, R Powell

Match scheduled to begin at 09:30 local time (07:30 GMT)

 

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Points Table

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[tr][td]Teams [/td][td]Mat [/td][td]Won [/td][td]Lost [/td][td]Tied [/td][td]N/R [/td][td]Pts [/td][td]Net RR [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]West Indies [/td][td]2 [/td][td]1 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]1 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]7 [/td][td]0.62 [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Sri Lanka [/td][td]3 [/td][td]1 [/td][td]1 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]1 [/td][td]7 [/td][td]0.485 [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Zimbabwe [/td][td]3 [/td][td]0 [/td][td]1 [/td][td]1 [/td][td]1 [/td][td]4 [/td][td]-1.42 [/td][/tr]
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[jeetu]

West Indies won the toss and elected to field
Sri Lanka 18/1 (2.4 ov)

 

[SL_Fan]

Sri Lanka 143/2 (25.3 ov)

 

[SL_Fan]

Sri Lanka 230/3 (38.2 ov)

DM de Silva 58 (60)
N Dickwella† 94 (106)
BKG Mendis 63 (57)*

 

[SL_Fan]

Sri Lanka 330/7 (50 ov)

DM de Silva 58 (60)
N Dickwella† 94 (106)
BKG Mendis 94 (73)

Holder 57/3

West Indies 73/1 (8.3 ov)

E Lewis 40 (27)*

 

[Pantani]

West Indies look like they will chase this down. I'm pleased to see that Niroshan Dickwella is getting an opportunity and is scoring runs.

 

[Thivagar]

Kusal Mendis is a future ATG. Don't think even Mahela was this good at this age and I don't see him declining like Tharanga either.

Whats with these batting allrounders rolling their arms ? WTH is Asela guy bowling ? Fast-Offspin ?

 

[street cricketer]

Lol @ Holder..

Single handedly trying to lose the match for his team as the captain..

 

[TestMatch]

Holder lost them the last ODI too. He can't handle chases and just ran out an in-form batsman.

 

[Thivagar]

Another dumb fielding set up.

 

[Zeshan547]

[MENTION=137677]Thivagar[/MENTION] congragulations and thanks to you guys because it will also benefit pak if WI lose in regards to ranking. So a win win bro.

 

[street cricketer]

This has been an underrated series..

 

[street cricketer]

Lmao Windies might choke here..

 

[troodon]

Lmao Windies might choke here..

They did.

Blame goes on Holder.

 

[Abdullah719]

Yesss.



Looks like K Brathwaite is not cut out for this format.

 

[Pantani]

Kusal Mendis is a future ATG. Don't think even Mahela was this good at this age and I don't see him declining like Tharanga either.

Whats with these batting allrounders rolling their arms ? WTH is Asela guy bowling ? Fast-Offspin ?

His innings in Kandy this year was absolutely incredible. I remember at lunch on day 3 he had something like 80 out of a team total of 4/95 or something ridiculous like that. He looked a class above everybody on such a difficult pitch with all experienced team mates around him falling cheaply. Mendis looks a brilliant player!

 

[Pantani]

Thrilling finish to the match

It's sad that great games like these go ignored even though it's two full member sides.

 

[JaDed]

Wow,congrats to Lanka and its fans remarkable win.

 

[Markhor]

Pradeep got whacked bowling short to Benn a few deliveries before but credit to him because he hit his yorker length well after that.

Been a couple of cracking matches in this tri-series.

Zimbabwe-West Indies on Friday will decide who'll reach the final.

 

[troodon]

Yesss.



Looks like K Brathwaite is not cut out for this format.

Both Brathwaites suck in LOI format.

At least Kraigg is good in Test format.

Carlos is a blind slogger. He just got lucky in that T20 WC. A fluke performance. Sucked since then.

 

[Pantani]

They did.

Blame goes on Holder.

How do you figure that? He took 3/57 and was the second top scorer.

Brathwaite's tuk-tuk innings at 3, 16 (33) with no boundaries is where fingers should be pointed. Holder did a good job with the ball and did OK with the bat.

 

[BD-fan]

They did.

Blame goes on Holder.

If you consider his ball watching and getting Lewis out. Other than that he kept WI in the game all through out.

 

[TestMatch]

How do you figure that? He took 3/57 and was the second top scorer

In this ODI (and more or less the previous WI ODI as well), WI needed about 33 runs off 30 balls to win. This is easy. But Holder panicked and was never sure whether to slog or take singles. That, plus his bad running which led to his teammates getting run out, led to two easy WI wins being thrown away.

 

[Rayyman]

WI look to have improved ever since the Pak series in the UAE.

 

[Nil Dhumrojal]

WI should have win that.

 

[Bewal Express]

How did Lewis look?