Hasaranga and Kumara arrange Sri Lanka’s demolition of Oman
Sri Lanka 100 for 0 (Karunaratne 61*) beat Oman 98 (Ayaan 41, Hasaranga 5-13, Kumara 3-22) by ten wickets
The win arrange by Hasaranga with figures of 5 for 13 was completed off by the Sri Lankan openers, who accomplished the chase in 15 overs. Dimuth Karunaratne notched his tenth ODI fifty within the course of.
The nature of the win has additionally given a major increase to Sri Lanka’s web run price – one thing which they may be capable of carry over to the Super Sixes stage, supplied Oman qualify. As for Oman, they continue to be in a great place to make the following spherical regardless of this defeat, with two wins from their three video games.
On an overcast and chilly Bulawayo morning, Dasun Shanaka wasted little time in placing Oman into bat, with proceedings anticipated to be robust for the batters early on.
Lahiru Kumara, bowling persistently within the 135-140kph vary, was notably spectacular, as his tempo allied with the laborious lengths he so usually seems to use, proved an excessive amount of for the Oman batters, most of whom weren’t used to contending with such tempo. Kumara’s first wicket got here in his first over by means of a great size supply that pitched and straightened on off stump. Kashyap Prajapati, who noticed a vanguard dropped by Kumara off the same ball earlier within the over, didn’t get bat on it and was trapped on the again pad.
Kumara’s subsequent two would come courtesy some shorter stuff, with first Zeeshan Maqsood after which Mohammad Nadeem chipping to sq. leg. He would finish with figures of three for 22 in eight overs – a Player-of-the-Match worthy efficiency on some other day.
Kasun Rajitha on the different finish picked up only a solitary wicket however was persistently threatening by bowling the nagging line exterior off. Fittingly, it was an outswinger to Aqib Ilyas that will give him a deserved return, with the right-hander pushing uncertainly exterior his off stump solely to get a thick edge to a recently-installed fifth slip.
The Kumara-Rajitha one-two combo would ultimately see Oman slide to twenty for 4 halfway by means of the tenth over. Karunaratne, talking after the sport, stated the circumstances supplied the tempo assault a gap they usually grabbed it. “Today we won the toss and there was something for the fast bowlers, with the cloudy conditions. They grabbed the opportunity.”
A 52-run stand between Jatinder Singh and Ayaan Khan then supplied Oman a glimmer of hope of reaching a decent whole.
But in a single Hasaranga over all such hopes had been vanquished. Three googlies, three wickets, zero runs – Jatinder, Shoaib Khan and Jay Odedra all despatched packing. Jatinder and Odedra had been dismissed lbw whereas Shoaib was castled after an ill-advised try at a slog. After that it was only a matter of time.
Ayaan sought to soldier on with the tail, however Hasaranga wasn’t having any of it. He would full his five-for trapping Bilal Khan lbw because the final man. Four of his 5 wickets had been both lbw or bowled. Only Ayaan, who was caught expertly at slip, would require the intervention of a team-mate. There was a run-out within the combine as effectively, simply to compound a depressing day for Oman and yet one more good outing for Sri Lanka.
Karunaratne summed it up: “We’ve won convincingly, and that’s what we’ve wanted to do. Everything is is pretty good shape. But we want to take it match by match and get to the Super Sixes.”