24/08Result
2nd ODI (D/N), Australia tour of Sri Lanka at Colombo, Aug 24 2016
Sri Lanka won by 82 runs
Player of the Match
Angelo Mathews
Angelo MathewsSri Lanka
24/08Result
2nd ODI (D/N), Australia tour of Sri Lanka at Colombo, Aug 24 2016
Sri Lanka won by 82 runs
Player of the Match
Angelo Mathews
Angelo MathewsSri Lanka

6.05pm What a see-saw innings this has been, allowing plenty of innings to both teams. The openers went cheaply before Mendis and Chandimal charged some momentum into the innings. But Zampa's flight and legspin got them down to 158 for 5. Then captain Mathews and Kusal Perera came together to first rebuild and then change gears to finally give them the platform for the late surge. They were soon looking set for 300 but can you ever rule Australia out? Faulkner bagged a hat-trick and Starc took two in five balls, meaning Sri Lanka lost their last five for 27 runs. Still, 288 will be pretty difficult to chase here. Join us around 6.45 for the chase...

Samuel: "Would have been unique if all three of Faulkner's hat-trick victims had the same last name! We'll have to settle for two Pereras."

Jim: "You've got to love the age-old approach to the tail from Starc- bowl really really fast at the stumps"

Mustafa Moudi: "LBW, Catch Out & Bowled - Faulkner's Hat-Traick had all 3 different ways of dismissals..."

48.5
W
Starc to Aponso, OUT, Starc takes his third, he's hit the stumps again and SL are bowled out! From wide of the crease again, right in the block hole and through the batsman to hit the middle and leg stumps!

MA Aponso b Starc 2 (5m 4b 0x4 0x6) SR: 50.00

Smith, from slip, asking long-on to come in. It's Bailey wearing the floppy hat

48.4
0
Starc to Aponso, no run, outside off, not using that angle that much, big swing and a miss from Aponso

Australia tour of Sri Lanka 2016 News

Faulkner's hat-trick

5

No. of Australia bowlers to take a hat-trick in ODIs before James Faulkner. He is the second Australia bowler to take one against SL after Daniel Christian.

only the second

2

Century stands for Sri Lanka's sixth wicket in ODIs against Australia. The first one was between Aravinda de Silva and Roshan Mahanama in 1996.

Dismissed finally

180

Runs scored by Chandimal between dismissals in ODI v AUS - the 2nd highest by a SL batsman v AUS after Aravinda de Silva's 276 runs across 4 inns in 1996-99

Fast off the blocks

5

No. of fifties for Kusal Mendis in just nine ODIs. This is his fourth fifty in his last-five ODIs.

Expensive over

5

No. of instances of Australia spinners going for 20 or more runs in an over in ODIs since 2002 before Travis Head. Head's is the only one inside ten overs.