ICC World Cup: Srilanka vs Australia - Match Preview
Srilanka will play their match against Australia at Colombo. Here is the match preview.
ICC World Cup: Srilanka vs Australia
Srilanka will play against Australia at Colombo on 5th March. Srilanka had a wonderful victory against Kenya in their last match. Malinga had shown some astonishing bowling performance and had took 6 wickets. But they had lost to Pakistan by 11 runs. Australian team is coming with full confidence. All cricket fans are waiting for the result of the match. In 1996 world cup final Srilanka had won the match while in 2007 world cup finals Australia defeated them. Srilanka has the advantage of playing in home ground. Muralitharan's performance will be crucial for Srilanka.Pitch report
It pelted down on Friday evening in Colombo, and there's light rain forecast for Saturday as well. If the weather stays clear, the teams will likely have to deal with a sluggish pitch, the same surface that was used for the Kenya-Sri Lanka match. So the bowlers should go for Yorkers rather than Bouncer. malinga had done the same with KenyaProbable Team
Srilanka
1 Tillakaratne Dilshan, 2 Upul Tharanga, 3 Kumar Sangakkara (capt & wk), 4 Mahela Jayawardene, 5 Thilan Samaraweera, 6 Angelo Mathews, 7 Chamara Silva, 8 Nuwan Kulasekara, 9 Lasith Malinga, 10 Ajantha Mendis, 11 Muttiah Muralitharan
Australia
1 Shane Watson, 2 Brad Haddin (wk), 3 Ricky Ponting (capt), 4 Michael Clarke, 5 David Hussey, 6 Cameron White, 7 Steve Smith, 8 Mitchell Johnson, 9 Jason Krezja, 10 Brett Lee, 11 Shaun Tait.
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