ICC World Cup 2019
Match 27 - England Vs Srilanka
Malinga showed the types of Yorker to England
Cricket fans never forget the master class bowling from Lasith Malinga against South Africa in 2007 world cup. He took 4 balls from 4 wicket and collapsed South African middle to death batting lineup. But somehow South Africa won that game. Almost after 12 years Malinga showed one more master class bowling in yesterday's match. But this time from winning side. Before this match many of us predicted that England will get 2 points easily and may be this match will be one of the high scoring match in world cup history if England bat first. After the toss Sri lanka bat first and again prediction came like England may crunch Sri lanka less than 200 runs and chase it with in 25 overs. Yes, the same thing happened in first innings Srilanka scored only 232 runs for 9 wicket loss at the end of 50 overs. But no one ever imagined the change of game in 2nd innings.
England speedsters Archer and Woakes took both the Srilankan openers before the end of third over. Young Lankan Avishka Fernando confident knock of 49 runs from 39 balls gave some energy to Sri lankan batsmen. Because of him Kusal Mendis scored 48 runs and De Silva scored 29 runs. Tail enders didnt cross single digit. But Sri lanka scored 232 runs at the end from a responsible knock from experienced Angelo Mathews. Mathews remains not out and scored 85 runs from 115 balls with 5 boundaries and 1 six. Jofra Archer and mark Wood took 3wickets each, Rashid took 2 wickets and Woakes with 1.
Forecasters said England will chase the target within 30 overs. Before this match England Captain Eoin Morgan told like " We didnt even saw 10 players from Srilankan team playing in international cricket". But he forget to remember the one who is playing for Srilanka for International cricket for so many years and he is one of the world's best bowler. Yes, he forget about the one player who he knows well. Lasith Malinga, the king of yorker showed one more his magical spell to England batsmen. From the first over itself he threatened British players and took Bairstow in 2nd ball of 1st over itself. Before the end of his spell he took another opener Vince at 7th over. Joe Root started building innings and crossed half century eventhough morgan lost his wicket for 21 runs to Udana. Malinga back to bowl his next spell. This time he sen Joe root to pavilion for 57 runs. He didnt stop at all, again in the same spell he took another dangerous hitter Buttler for 10 runs. Thats it England not even remember what happened there. De Silva take care of the tail enders. But on one end Ben Stokes played his lifetime best innings. He played with a clear plan, scoring only boundaries and taking single at 5th ball or 6th ball of an over to keep strike. Slowly he took England near the target. But Sri lankan used the one ball which was faced by Wood. Wood expected for a yorker from Pradeep. But he bowled a slight outside off stumps and wood was taken by keeper Perera. England went all out for 212 runs. Srilanka won by 20 runs margin. Ben Stokes played a responsible knock at crtical situation but goes is vein. He remains not out and scored 82 runs from 89 balls with 7 boundaries and 4 sixes.
Man of the Match: Lasith Malinga (4 wickets for 43 runs from 10 overs with a maiden)
Lasith Malinga showed the variations of yorker to England players. The one man from Srilanka will be the reason for their yesterday's win. He didnt took the wickets of some ordinary 4 batsmen. He took the wickets of 4 world class batsmen. Second half of the tournament started with a surprise defeat of England by Srilanka. Still a lot more to go. Now Srilanka were also in the race of semi along with Bangladesh. England situation is critical now, they were left with 3 games now but the opponents are Australia, India and New Zealand.
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