Sri Lanka continue their winning ways in ICC Cricket World Cup Qualifier as they recorded the second straight win the tournament defeating Oman by 10 wickets today (23rd June) at Queen’s Sports Club in Bulawayo.
Sri Lanka skipper Dasun Shanaka opted to bowl first after winning the toss in order to get the maximum use of overcast conditions in Bulawayo. Both teams had made no changes to their playing XIs.
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Sri Lanka (Playing XI): Pathum Nissanka, Dimuth Karunaratne, Kusal Mendis(w), Sadeera Samarawickrama, Charith Asalanka, Dasun Shanaka(c), Dhananjaya de Silva, Wanindu Hasaranga, Maheesh Theekshana, Kasun Rajitha, Lahiru Kumara
Oman (Playing XI): Kashyap Prajapati, Jatinder Singh, Aqib Ilyas, Shoaib Khan, Zeeshan Maqsood(c), Mohammad Nadeem, Ayaan Khan, Naseem Khushi(w), Bilal Khan, Jay Odedra, Fayyaz Butt
Oman top order had a terrible time with the bat as they struggled to cope up against the Sri Lanka’s opening bowling pair Kumara and Rajitha. Kumara was very impressive in his opening spell as he wiped out the Oman top order, picking up 3 wickets up front.
The opening batter Singh and middle order batter Ayaan Khan showed some resistance with the bat, building a 52-run stand for the fifth wicket but with the introduction of wrist-spinner Hasaranga, Oman started to collapse again.
Oman batters crumbled against Hasaranga’s spin tricks and allowed him to pick up another 5-wicket haul. Hasaranga scalped 5 wickets for 13 runs and became the second Sri Lankan cricketer to pick up back to back 5-wicket hauls in ODIs.
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Only Khan stood out playing a composed knock of 41 runs for Oman, but the rest of the batters were just no match for Sri Lankan bowling attack.
It was a walk in the park victory for Sri Lanka as the opening pair Karunaratne and Nissanka put on an unbeaten 100-run stand for the first wicket to put them over the line.
Karunaratne continued his brilliant batting form notching up yet another half-century for Sri Lanka. It was Karunaratne’s 4th consecutive half-century in ODIs.
With this massive win, Sri Lanka managed to boost their net run rate and topped the Group B points table with two consecutive wins.
Sri Lanka will take on Ireland in their next game on Sunday (25th June) at the same Ground and a win will secure their place in the Super Six stage of the competition.
Result
| Batsmen | R | B | 4s | 6s | SR | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kashyap Prajapati | lbw b Lahiru Kumara | 1 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 11.11 |
| Jatinder Singh | lbw b Wanindu Hasaranga | 21 | 43 | 2 | 0 | 48.84 |
| Aqib Ilyas | c Pathum Nissanka b Kasun Rajitha | 6 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 46.15 |
| Zeeshan Maqsood | c Charith Asalanka b Lahiru Kumara | 1 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 12.50 |
| Mohammad Nadeem | c Dimuth Karunaratne b | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Ayaan Khan | c & b | 41 | 60 | 4 | 0 | 68.33 |
| Shoaib Khan | b Wanindu Hasaranga | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Jay Odedra | lbw b Wanindu Hasaranga | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Naseem Khushi | run out () | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 50.00 |
| Fayyaz Butt | not out | 13 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 46.43 |
| Bilal Khan | lbw b | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Extras | 14 (b 0 , lb 0 , nb 0, w 14, pen 0) |
| Total | 98/10 (30.2 Overs, RR: 3.23) |
| Fall of Wickets | 1-1 (1.4) Kashyap Prajapati, 2-15 (4.6) Aqib Ilyas, 3-16 (7.2) Zeeshan Maqsood, 4-20 (9.3) Mohammad Nadeem, 5-72 (20.1) Jatinder Singh, 6-72 (20.3) Shoaib Khan, 7-72 (20.6) Jay Odedra, 8-82 (23.1) Naseem Khushi, 9-94 (28.1) Ayaan Khan, 10-98 (30.2) Bilal Khan, |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kasun Rajitha | 6 | 0 | 17 | 1 | 2.83 | |
| Lahiru Kumara | 8 | 2 | 22 | 3 | 2.75 | |
| Mahesh Theekshana | 4 | 0 | 23 | 0 | 5.75 | |
| Dasun Shanaka | 2 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 5.00 | |
| Wanindu Hasaranga | 7.2 | 1 | 13 | 5 | 1.81 | |
| Dhananjaya de Silva | 3 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 3.00 | |
| Batsmen | R | B | 4s | 6s | SR | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pathum Nissanka | not out | 37 | 39 | 5 | 0 | 94.87 |
| Dimuth Karunaratne | not out | 61 | 51 | 8 | 0 | 119.61 |
| Extras | 2 (b 0 , lb 0 , nb 0, w 2, pen 0) |
| Total | 100/0 (15 Overs, RR: 6.67) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bilal Khan | 4 | 0 | 26 | 0 | 6.50 | |
| Fayyaz Butt | 3 | 0 | 24 | 0 | 8.00 | |
| Zeeshan Maqsood | 4 | 0 | 24 | 0 | 6.00 | |
| Jay Odedra | 3 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 5.33 | |
| Ayaan Khan | 1 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10.00 | |
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