Mahela Jayawardene and Tillakaratne Dilshan shared a 145-run stand against England.
Sri Lanka are at 70 for one after 10 overs against England in the ICC World T20 2014.
Sri Lanka are at 35 for one after five overs against England in the ICC World T20 2014.
Debutant Ben Cutting and Cameron White also played useful knocks up the order.
Jade Dernbach's Wikipedia profile has been compromised.
Ishant Sharma, the senior-most bowler in the Indian team, was carted for 30 runs in the 48th over of the Australian innings. His bowling at the death against Australia at Mohali in the third One-Day International (ODI) was not only appalling, but way too ordinary for international level. Ishant looked clueless. However, it brought to light India’s perennial problem of bowling at the death. Aayush Puthran examines the situation and elucidates why India should make room for a bowler purely for his ability to bowl well in the latter part of the innings in their bid to defend the world title in 2015.
It’s already September and in less than three months, Australia would be hosting the Ashes Part Two, or the return series. Much after the bad light and peeing on the pitch saga, cricket was resumed in colors: the red home team vs the yellow visitors. We can go on and on as to why they have only two T20 International (T20I) games in a series, when they can have a tour game before the fifth test, but that is a discussion for another day.
England T20 skipper Stuart Broad praised fast bowler Jade Dernbach after his match-winning performance finishing with figures of three for 23 in his four overs against Australia in the second T20I at Chester-le-Street.
England beat Australia by 27 runs in the second Twenty20 International on Saturday to square the two-match series at 1-1. Alex Hales starred with the bat, scoring 94 off 61 balls and Jade Dernbach produced the goods with the ball taking three wickets. But how did the others fare? Shrikant Shankar analyses the performances of every player and rates their contribution in the match.