Big-hitting Sanath Jayasuriya suffered a taste of his own medicine, brutalized by Pakistan's batsman as Sri Lanka lost by 33 runs in a World Twenty20 Super Eights match on Monday.
Jayasuriya, the tournament's top scorer to date after two half centuries, wrote his name into the record books once again by conceding the inaugural competition's worst bowling figures of 0-64.
The main damage was suffered at the hands of rookie Pakistan skipper Shoaib Malik who top-scored with 57 out of a total of 189 for six, with support from Younis Khan (51) in a stand worth 101 from only 58 balls.
Sri Lanka then never recovered from the loss of three early wickets, despite a 56-run partnership between Chamara Silva and Mahela Jayawardena who made 28 before holing out on the boundary, caught by Mohammed Hafeez off Shahid Afridi.
When Silva perished to the same bowler for 38 off 27 balls, an always daunting run chase drifted out of Sri Lanka's reach and they finished on 156 for nine at the end of their 20 overs.
Afridi finished with figures of four for 18, which included the wicket of Gayan Wijekoon who was out for a duck.
There were also two wickets for Mohammed Asif who accounted for Upul Tharanga in only the second ball of the innings, caught by Umar Gul.
Wicketkeeper Kumar Sangakkara was then bowled by Asif after looking dangerous with a rapid 18 off 10 balls, which included two fours and a six.
The prize wicket of Jayasuriya was sandwiched in between, bowled by Sohail Tanveer for only five.
It capped a miserable evening for the 38-year-old who was clearly targeted by the Pakistanis after they had also suffered an early wobble.
Freddie Freeman homered and drove in four runs, Shohei Ohtani also went deep and Roki Sasaki earned his first major league win as the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Atlanta Braves 10-3 on Saturday night for their seventh straight victory. The Dodgers have won the first two games of the series to improve to 5-0 against Atlanta this year. Los Angeles’ three-game sweep at home early in the season left the Braves 0-7. Sasaki allowed three runs and six hits over five innings. The 23-year-old right-hander gave up a home run to Ozzie Albies, but received plenty of offensive support in his
FOCUS: ‘We came out here with a goal in mind ... to keep our foot on their throat and on their neck, and continue to play 48 minutes of basketball,’ Donovan Mitchell said The Cleveland Cavaliers on Monday thrashed the Miami Heat to cruise into the next round of the NBA playoffs as the Golden State Warriors battled past the Houston Rockets 109-106 to move to the brink of a series victory. After pounding Miami 124-87 in game three on Saturday, No.1 Eastern Conference seeds Cleveland once again piled on the misery for their outclassed opponents with a crushing 138-83 victory to complete a 4-0 series win. The 55-point drubbing was the largest series-clinching victory in NBA playoff history and sets up a series against either the Indiana Pacers or Milwaukee Bucks in
Bayern Munich on Sunday were crowned German champions for the 34th time, giving striker Harry Kane his first major trophy, after second-placed Bayer 04 Leverkusen drew 2-2 at SC Freiburg. Bayern’s 3-3 draw at RB Leipzig on Saturday, when the Bavarians came from two goals down to take the lead before conceding a stoppage-time equalizer, meant defending Bundesliga champions Leverkusen needed to win at Freiburg to delay the title party. Leverkusen were two goals down before scoring twice in the final 10 minutes, but Xabi Alonso’s side could not find a third, as Bayern reclaimed the title at the first attempt after
Shuttler Lin Chun-yi yesterday kept Taiwan on the board as they faced their first major challenge of the group stage after marching into the last eight at the Sudirman Cup Finals in Xiamen, China. Taiwan were losing 3-1 to South Korea as of press time last night, with only the men’s doubles match remaining. Taiwan and four-time champions South Korea have already progressed to the quarter-finals, after Taiwan on Monday blanked the Czech Republic 5-0 without giving up a single game. Before last night’s tie, Taiwan were undefeated in Group B, with a 9-1 match record, ahead of South Korea, who, although also
RSS