Chameera, Hasaranga help Sri Lanka crush UAE
Sri Lanka quickly returned from their loss to Namibia with an intensive defeat of the UAE by a 79-run edge on Tuesday to give themselves their first points and a massive NRR boost. On a night where it took Pathum Nissanka's 74 off 60 to drag the team past the 150-run mark, Sri Lanka flexed their bowling might to bundle out the UAE for just 73. UAE's 22-year-old legspinner Karthik Meiyappan gave his side expectation in the first innings with a fine hattrickbut it proved insignificant in the end as their batters failed in chase. The margin of victory takes Sri Lanka's NRR (+0.60) past Netherlands'(+0.15).
Blustery SL start and UAE's match-ups win
Medium pacer Kashif Daud moved the ball to swing away yet his lines were ordinary as Kusal Mendis and Pathum Nissanka jumped on them with a breezy start full of cover drives and cuts. The pair added 37 off only four overs before the UAE captain Chundangapoyil Rizwan spread out a stunt. Against the two right-handers, he welcomed on left-arm spinner Aryan Lakhra, who struck immediately by trapping Mendis for 18 off 13.
Nissanka and Dhananjaya consistent the boat
Sri Lanka's opening batter and the one-drop joined to consistent the innings with a 50-run stand during, as the couple took on the more slow bowlers through the middle overs. At the point when it seemed to be a stand that would convey Sri Lanka to a major total, an unfortunate call between the wickets brought the UAE a wicket against the run of play. Dhananjaya, who had made a fiery start, had to trudge back for 33 off 21 because of a run out.
A hattrick to floor Sri Lanka
Leg-spinner Karthik Meiyappan reversed the situation totally in about three deliveries in the fifteenth over. He threw up a full and wide ball first, enticingBhanuka Rajapaksa to go big and hole out to deep cover. Charith Asalanka was invited with a googly that he didn'tread and ended up scratching behind to the keeper. Meiyappan saved his best for the remainder of his hattrick as Dasun Shanaka was flummoxed with a loopy googly that went through the bat-pad hole to palace the stumps and send Meiyappan on a victory run.
Late blitz for 150
Nissanka's innings wasn't quite so fast as he would've enjoyed, as he got to his half-century just in 45 deliveries. Be that as it may, in the stage post the hattrick, he took it upon himself to give Sri Lanka a strong finish. Sri Lanka crushed 26 out of two overs (eighteenth and nineteenth) with 20 off them coming from Nissanka's bat. Despite of Zahoor Khan bowling a decent in the twentieth and giving only three, Sri Lanka got done with 152 for 8. Nissanka made 74 off 60 balls.
Pacers destroy UAE top-order
Rizwan opted to field in this game in the anticipation of dew making its presence felt when his team had to bat. But even before that could happen, Sri Lanka's quicks dismantled UAE's top-order, and thus, the chase.
Dushmantha Chameera fueled the UAE procession as he knocked back the stumps of Muhammad Waseem and Aryan in the third over.Rizwan then, at that point, played an uppish drive an over later, directly to mid-off, giving Chameera his third wicket. Pramod Madushan contributed, in the last over of the PowerPlay with a full delivery on the legs to evacuate Chirag Suri's stumps. The UAE were down to 23 for 4 of every 6 overs.
Hasaranga continues to torment
Presentation of the spinners and Dasun Shanaka's delicate medium pace didn't bring relief for UAE. Shanaka previously got Basil Hameed to flick a full, innocuous delivery to midwicket in the 10th over. Hasaranga then ended Vriitya Aravind's strugglesin the middle with a LBW that needed to be reviewed to get ruled in Sri Lanka's favour. Hasaranga then, at that point, foxed Kashif Daud with a quicker googly, catching him to leg before. At 42 for 7, in the twelfth over, the writing was already on the wall for the UAE.
Maheesh Theekshana had the first-innings hero Meiyappan stumped and Hasaranga got a third in the fifteenth by tidying up Afzal Khan to wrap up with exceptional figures of 3 for 8. That pushed UAE to 56 for 9.
Junaid Siddique tosses his bat around
UAE's No.10 player came out allguns blazing, and extended his stay till the eighteenth over, likely stirring up a lot of mortification for Sri Lanka. Shanaka brought back Chameera off the innings, just for Siddique to crush a short ball out of the ground for the biggest six of the tournament. Siddique attempted to pursue Theekshana as well and perished in the eighteenth over - not before he got 18, UAE's best individual effort in the game.
Match Summery
Sri Lanka 152/8 (Pathum Nissanka 74, Dhananjaya de Silva 33; Karthik Meiyappan 3-19, Zahoor Khan 2-26) beat UAE 73 in 17.1 overs (Junaid Siddique 18; Wanindu Hasaranga 3-8, Dushmantha Chameera 3-15, Pramod Madushan 2-15) by 79 runs.
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