Sri Lanka Tour of Austarlia 2019 T20 Series – 1st Match Review

The first t20 match between Australia vs Sri Lanka was won by the Australian cricket team. That was a pretty easy game for them and they played really amazing cricket today. Sri Lanka will surely upset their performance today. They need a lot of improvements for the next game. Austalia batted first and scored mammoth 234 runs to their scorecard. Sri Lanka failed to chase down it and they only scored 99 runs for their score. The Game was held at Manuka Oval cricket ground in Adelaide.

David Warner played a brilliant inning on his birthday and who scored 100 for his nation. Aaron Finch scored a quick fifty and who built a hundred run partnership with warner for the first wicket. After Finch departs, Glenn Maxwell joined to party and who scored quick 62 with some amazing cricket shots. Sri Lankan bowlers failed to control Aussie batsmen and they delivered some poor deliveries to get runs for Australians. Only Nuwan Pradeep delivered some good bowling spell and others were failed to stop Warner, Finch and Maxwell. Lakshan Sandakan and Dasun Shanaka was the only wicket-takers among Sri Lankan bowlers. Kasun Rajitha was the poorest bowler among them and who gave 75 runs within his 4 overs. Lasith Malinga also showed some poor skills in bowling. Sri Lanka now has a doubt about Malinga's captaincy.

Sri Lanka batsmen were all struggled when facing Mitchell Starc and Pat Cummings. Starc Delivered some amazing delivery to stop Kusal Perera’s inning. Kusal Medis pulled the bowl without much thinking and then it became a catch. Danushka Gunathilaka and Bhanuka Rajapaksha were trapped by Pat Cummings. Oshada Fernando also struggled against Aussie bowlers and who only scored 13 runs from 20 bowls. Dasun Shanaka was the leading runs scorer for Sri Lanka and who scored 17 runs with a massive six. Every Sri Lanka batsman was struggled to get going. They showed some child cricket today. This less experienced side needs more experience to face strong teams like Austalia.

We hope Sri Lanka will rest Kasun Rajitha in the next game and they will recall Isuru Udana to show his skills. Udana is a t20 specialist and Sri Lanka feels his loss very tightly. Sometimes they will rest Wanidu Hasaranga in the next game and they can recall Shehan Jayasuriya to the squad. However, this is a huge challenge for young Sri Lankan side and they have to learn lot.

Sri Lanka should come back both Thisara Perera and Angelo Mathews if these young players struggled. Those two cricketers have a lot of experience in playing Australian conditions. Let’s see what will happen in the next t20 game.