Sri Lanka beat West Indies in 2nd Semi Finals, T Dilshan swings his bat to victory

A massive defeat for West Indies going down to Sri Lanka by 56 runs (a huge number for a 20 20 over match) . Sri Lanka makes it way to the finals of the World Cup.

A brief summary of the game:
Sri Lanka 158 for 5 (Dilshan 96*) beat West Indies 101 (Gayle 63*, Mathews 3-16, Muralitharan 3-29) by 57 runs

Tillakaratne Dilshan was an one man army for Sri Lanka’s batting order scoring the highest individual score by any player in this ICC 20 20 World Cup, he managed to remain unbeaten at 96 in 56 balls (he was unable to score a century as he didn’t retain strike and his partner at the other end A Mathews was going great guns).

West Indies had an aweful start losing 3 early wickets in the first over by A Mathews. The score read 1 for 3 at the end of the first over, Three top order batsmen gone in the first over Xavier Marshall, Lendl Simmons & Dwayne Bravo. Chris Gayle was the lonesome warrior who remained unbeaten on 63 runs which could not help the team to earn a victory. Tackling the spin wizards in Ajantha Mendis and M Murlitharan and early blows by A Mathews, West Indies was never a threat for Sri Lanka.

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