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Sri Lanka bows out meekly

by Ranjan Anandappa

Sri Lanka bowed out from the Under 19 World Cup cricket tournament when they went down meekly to Australia by 9 wickets in their quarter-final match at the SSC grounds yesterday.

Australia in pursuit of a modest 177 to win reached their target with two cracking innings by skipper Moises Henriques ( 84 n.o) and Tom Cooper ( 79 n.o) who shared an unbroken second wicket stand of 146 runs off 126 deliveries in just 26.1 overs.

The Sri Lankans who won the toss and decided to bat were restricted to 177 in 46.3 overs with Moises Henriques producing an excellent spell of fast bowling to unsettle the Lankan batsmen to take 4 for 22 in 8.3 overs. He won the Man of the Match award for his allround display.

For the host country only skipper Angelo Mathew and Dilah Cooray batted with some purpose adding 62 runs for the fifth wicket with Cooray missing his half century and Mathew who was batting with a runner was rattled by his opposite number and had his stumps shuttered.

They brought the score from 62 for 4 to 124 for 5. Cooray's 43 had two boundaries and he faced 87 deliveries while Mathew utilised 40 balls and struck five fours. The rest of the Sri Lankan batsmen could not make much of a contribution losing wickets rapidly with Henriques, Simon Keen and Jack McNamara doing the damge.

SRI LANKA

D. Karunaratne  b Ritchard			01
S. de Zoysa c Wade b Henriques			00
Sachitra Serasinghe  c Finch b Henriques	 9
Hans Fernando b Keen				20
Dilhan Cooray  c & b McNamara			43
Angelo Mathews b Henriques			32
Shalilka Karunanayake  not out			37
Thisara Perera c Ritchard b McNamara		03
Prabudha Perera  c Henriques b Cutting		02
Malinda Pushpakumara  c Ritchard b Keen		05
Chatupama Gunasinghe c Ritchard b Henriques	00
EXTRAS (lb 11, w14)				25
TOTAL (46.3 overs)				177

FALL OF WICKETS 1-4, 2-4, 3-23, 4-62, 5-124, 
6-146, 7-153, 8-157, 9-173.

BOWLING M. Henriques 8.3-1-22-4, 
Ritchard 10-2-20-1, 
Ben Cutting 7-0-32-1 Simon Keen 8-2-37-2, 
Jack McNamara 10-1-37-2, A. Finch 3-0-18-0

AUSTRALIA

Usman Khawaja b Serasinghe		 2
Tonn Cooper  not out			79
Moises Henriques not out		84

EXTRAS (1b 3, w 10)			13
TOTAL (1 wicket, 26.1 overs)		178

FALL OF WICKETS: 132,

BOWLING: Chatupama Gunasinghe  3-0-19-0 
Thisara Perera 2-0-16-0, 
Sachita Serasinghe 5-0-22-1, 
Malinda Pushpakumara, 5-0-52-0, 
Rajive Weerasinghe,  7-1-33-0, 
Dimuth Karunaratne, 1-0-12-0, 
Shalika Karunanayake, 1-0-6-0, 
Dilshan Cooray 2.1-0-15-0

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