GROS ISLET, St Lucia, CMC – Sri Lanka signed off on their failed ICC Twenty20 World Cup marketing campaign in dominant fashion, crushing minnows Netherlands by 83 runs right here late Sunday.
Despatched in on the Daren Sammy Cricket Stadium, Sri Lanka piled up 201 for six off their 20 overs with none batsman attending to fifty. Charith Asalanka and Kusal Mendis collectively top-scoring with 46.
Nuwan Thushara (3-24) then mixed with fellow seamer Matheesha Pathirana (2-12) and leg-spinner Wanindu Hasaranga (2-25) to ship the Dutch facet tumbling to 118 all out within the seventeenth over, handing Sri Lanka their solitary win within the match.
They completed third on three factors in Group D as South Africa and Bangladesh certified for the Tremendous Eights.
“Truthfully, I ought to say first that I’m very sorry about this as we all know how good our crew [is],” lamented captain Hasaranga.
“Sadly, we didn’t get that sport [in the] first two matches. It was too late to win this match once we obtained that sport to this.
“Because the captain and a participant, I really feel very sorry about this, coming to a World Cup and [not] getting out of the very first spherical.”
Pathum Nissanka perished to the second ball of the sport and not using a run on the board, however a sequence of partnerships fired Sri Lanka previous the 200-run mark.
Kusal placed on 39 for the second wicket with Kamindu Mendis (17) and 45 for the third with Dhananjaya de Silva (34), who then added 39 for the fourth with Asalanka.
Former captain Angelo Matthews arrived to belt a 15-ball unbeaten 30 in a 43-run, fifth wicket stand with Asalanka after which in a 35-run, unbroken seventh wicket partnership with Wanindu Hasaranga (20 not out).
In reply, the Netherlands was given a stable begin of 45 off 27 deliveries by Michael Levitt (31) and Max O’Dowd (11) earlier than the chase fizzled out.
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