Brief Summary of the Australia vs Sri Lanka match :
Sri Lanka 160 for 4 (Sangakkara 55*, Dilshan 53) beat Australia 159 for 9 (Johnson 28*, Mendis 3-20, Malinga 3-36) by six wickets
Ajantha Mendis the star bowler of Srilanka, scalped three important wickets to restrict Australia to a achievable score of 159 for the loss of 9 wickets. Mitchell Johnson and D Hussey scored 28 runs each which was the highest score by the Australians. Ajantha Mendis with his surprise ball took three top Australian wickets that of Ricky Ponting, Watson and M Hussey. Malinga too scalped three wickets along with him to put immense pressure on the Australian batting lineup.
Brett Lee scored 15 quick runs in 5 balls and also took 2 wickets of Sri Lanka but this effort of his could not stop Sri Lanka to romp to victory with a solid batting performance by the captain Kumara Sangakara who scored and unbeaten 55 runs in 42 balls to take his team to the super eights of ICC T20 World Cup.
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