Sri Lanka won throw and chose to bat. second over - Tillakaratne Dilshan rebuffs Alasdair Evans, hitting him over the spreads for his first limit. SRI: 9-0. third over - Rob Taylor sends down a clean over, yielding just three hurries to keep up weight on the openers. SRI: 12-0.
sixth over - Dilshan pulls Evans' short conveyance from outside off-stump for a limit however the bowler rejects Lahiru Thirimanne when he pursues a wide conveyance and edges it to second slip. SRI: 26-1. seventh over - Taylor sends down five dab balls before Kumar Sangakkara, the competition's top scorer, can take a solitary off the last conveyance. An alternate clean over from Scotland. SRI: 27-1. eighth over - Sangakkara gets his first limit with an exquisite spread commute of Evans' first chunk of the over. SRI: 32-1.
The Event Technical Committee of the ICC Cricket World Cup on Tuesday sanction Kusal Perera as a swap player for Dinesh Chandimal in Sri Lanka's squad for the competition. Chandimal endured a hamstring damage amid his side's match against Australia in Sydney and has been discounted of further support in the competition. Sri Lankan veteran Kumar Sangakkara set the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) ablaze with his third progressive hundred in the World Cup.
The past two hundreds were unbeaten, so Australia oversaw what the other two – Bangladesh and England – proved unable, get Sangakkara out. Having effectively reported that this will be his last ODI World Cup, Sangakkara is reminding to everybody that he is still the numero uno man in the Sri Lankan batting line
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