Sri Lanka was almost taken aback by the manner in which Ireland approached their chase. Luckily they had their wits and weapons about them in the crucial match in the Super Eights of the ICC World Twenty20 in England.
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But for Mahela Jayawardene’s seventy-eight, the Sri Lankans could have been embarrassed themselves. After Sanath Jayasurirya’s twenty-seven, there was hardly anything to come by way of sturdiness and Sri Lanka found themselves relying heavily on their former skipper to take them to a respectable post, that being 144 in this case. While Aaron Cusack, with his four wickets was the chief destructor in this case, he had company in Boyd Rankin and Kyle McCallan who picked up two wickets apiece.
And the Ireland batting certainly started out promising, making sixty for one at the end of ten overs, skipper William Porterfield departing for thirty-one well made runs. But that wicket to Muttiah Muralitharan also proved to be the turning point of the match. The Irish team lost their balance and toppled heavily in favour of defeat. Disaster struck when Ajantha Mendis struck with deadly effect to remove both, Niall O’Brien and his brother Kevin O’Brien, in the same over – the fifteenth. Lasith Malinga then struck twice in two balls in the eighteenth over, accounting for Trent Johnston and Andre Botha thus, ending the Irish resistance and giving Sri Lanka two crucial points with a win by nine runs.
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