The whole cricket world has again seen the batting show of the two Sri Lankan openers Dilshan and Tharanga. The England team has been destroyed due to their batting. Yesterday, in the last quarter final match of this world cup, Sri Lanka has defeated England by 10 wickets and confirmed the ticket for Semi Final. The English bowlers were surrendered to the two openers of Sri Lanka. Not only in this match, the two openers of Sri Lanka also performed a great batting against Zimbabwe in the group match making centuries. Yesterday, they have also gotten centuries in the match of yesterday.In this match, the captain of England won the toss and decided to bat first. But England fell into a pressure after going to the field. In 29 runs, the captain Strauss and hard hitter batsman Yan Bell had to return into the pavilion. Strauss scored 5 runs and Bell 25 runs. Spinner Dilshan hit the opponent first. He made Strauss bold out. Yan Bell gave the catch to Samaraweera in Mathews’ ball. After losing two continuous wickets, England went to the back foot. But after that, the batting of Trott and Bopara brought some comfort to the English team. These two batsmen gathered 64 runs in the scoreboard. Bopara was returned after scoring 31 runs in the ball of Muralitharan. But Trott was in the crease. Morgan came to help him. It was possible to stop these English batsmen before. But that was not happened due to the failure of fielders. The Sri Lankan fielders dropped two easy catches of Morgan. As a result, Morgan got half-century. He was returned to the pavilion in the ball of Malinga after scoring 50 runs from 55 balls. Swann was also failure in that match. He was trapped to the spin of Mendis. But Trott was still in the wickets. He also tried to make a good partnership with Prior. Their main target was to capture wicket. So the innings of England was not reached to high also they had 4 wickets in hand up to last. Trott was out scoring 86 runs. He was out in Muralitharan’s ball. At last, the innings of England was ended in 229 runs losing 6 wickets. Prior was able to score 22 runs. Muralitharan got 2 wickets in this match.
In order to chase 230 runs of England, the two openers of Sri Lanka Tharanga and Dilshan was aggressive to the English bowlers. The bowlers of England like Bresnan, Swann, Tremlett etc. became very helpless to these batsmen. They played equally to spinners and pacers and took the run in a high speed. No bowler of England was able to stop anyone of them. Dilshan got his second century of his world cup career plating only 107 balls. In this current tournament, this batsman made another century (144 runs) in the match against Zimbabwe. Tharanga also got his second century in the world cup career. He played 122 balls to make his century. At last Sri Lanka got the ticket of Semi Final where they will have to face New Zealand.
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