Aussies/Lankans. T20 Series.

[Donny]

2/30 after 6 overs.

[Pies4shaw]

4/68 after 11.4.

[Pies4shaw]

5/89. Rain, after 14.5 overs. Sri Lanka need 61 from 31. Zampa has 3/18. The Sri Lankans have a technical problem playing spin.

[Pies4shaw]

6/89. Hazlewood gets one first ball of his new spell.

[Pies4shaw]

And another. He has 3/5. Sri Lanka is 7/90.

[Donny]

Top bowling from Zampa and Hazlewood.

7/93.

[Donny]

SL needs 50 runs from the last 18 balls (D/L Method)

[Pies4shaw]

And another. 4/8. Sri Lanka 8/106. They need 143 from 19 overs, so 37 from 11.

[Pies4shaw]

Australia won by 20 runs - Sri Lanka finished on 8/122 from 19 (D/L method). Zampa was POTM for his 3/18. Hazlewood took 4/12. McDermott made 53, the only half century for the game.

[Lazza]

Extremely ordinary batting effort from this young SL team. For more years than I can remember, SL cricket board has been saying that they will establish some bouncy tracks in SL to give players some experience with dealing with the balls that get too big on them but nothing ever happens. I can see SL only winning one T 20 in this series if they are very lucky.

[K]

Extremely ordinary batting effort from this young SL team. For more years than I can remember, SL cricket board has been saying that they will establish some bouncy tracks in SL to give players some experience with dealing with the balls that get too big on them but nothing ever happens. ...

TBH, I reckon ordinary batting from Oz as well. Only 149 and almost bowled out... Without McDermott, they might have been bowled out for 120.

As for balls that get too big... I'm still shocked by the Oz batters' pathetic attempts to play Wood's bouncers in Tassie. They should be embarrassed. Lyon should let 'em have it. He effortlessly hooked Wood for 3 sixes, one of them into the second tier.

Back on this slogathon...

Wowee... FTB Smith yet again had his defective technique destroyed by a legspinner. FTB just swiped across the line and was clean bowled by a ball by Hasaranga that as far as I could see didn't even spin... Looked more like a dart ball...

Zampa got Player of the Match. But cricinfo's MVP was Hasaranga.

If the Slogathon WC is gonna have spinning conditions, Oz are in trouble... At least they have Zampa and Agar. But the batters are hopeless against spin.

[Donny]

Second match tonight.

SCG. 7.10

[Donny]

SL elected to chase.

12 overs gone. 3/100. Finch 25.

Inglis 39*

[Donny]

After 14 overs, 4/112. Inglis out for 48 (32).

[Donny]

Three overs to come. 4/138.

Stoinis 16*, Smith 13*.