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The 2nd T20I match of the Australia tour of Sri Lanka, 2022, played today at R.Premadasa Stadium, Colombo, in which Australia defeated Sri Lanka by 3 wickets.
Australia won the toss and invited Sri Lanka to bat first, Sri Lanka batted first, and started the inning very badly, Charith Asalanka scored 39 runs in 33 balls, Kusal Mendis scored 36 runs in 36 balls, Dasun Shanaka 17 runs in 14 balls, Bhanuka Rajapaksa 13 runs in 11 balls, apart from this, no batsman could play well, Danushka Gunathilaka scored 4 runs, Wanindu Hasaranga 12 runs, Pathum Nissanka 3 runs, Mahesh Theekshana remains unbeaten for 1 run, Nuwan Thushara remains unbeaten for 2 runs, Chamika Karunaratne and Dushmantha Chameera dismissed without scoring, in this way, Sri Lanka scored 124 runs after losing 9 wickets in 20 overs and set a target of 125 runs in front of Australia.
Australia bowlers performed very brilliant bowling, Kane Richardson took 4 wickets for 30 runs, Jhye Richardson took 3 wickets for 26 runs, and Glenn Maxwell got 2 wickets.
Australia chasing 125 runs in the second inning achived the target very easily by losing 7 wickets in 17.5 over and won the match by 3 wickets. Australia also started the inning not very well, Matthew Wade played an unbeaten inning of 26 runs in 26 balls, Aaron Finch 24 runs in 13 balls, David Warner 21 runs in 10 balls, Glenn Maxwell 19 runs in 19 balls, apart from this no batsman could play well, Jhye Richardson remains unbeaten for 9 runs, Marcus Stoinis scored 9 runs, Mitchell Marsh 11 runs, Steven Smith 5 runs, and Ashton Agar dismissed without scoring. In this way, Australia chased the target of 125 runs by losing 7 wickets in 20 overs and won the match by 3 wickets, and seal the series.
Sri-Lankan bowlers Wanindu Hasaranga took 4 wickets for 33 runs, Dushmantha Chameera and Nuwan Thushara got 1-1 wicket.
Australian batsman Matthew Wade was selected as the best player of the match, he played an unbeaten victory inning of 26 runs.
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