SL vs Aus: Australia’s clean sweep before the Champions Trophy, Sri Lanka gave such ‘wounds’ after 43 years

Rahul Tiwari

khelja|14-02-2025

The Australian team has suffered an embarrassing defeat before the Champions Trophy. The Sri Lankan team defeated him badly in Colombo ODIs. While batting first, Sri Lanka had set a target of 282 runs. This score proved to be like a mountain for the Kangaroo team and its batsmen kneeled. The entire team collapsed for just 107 runs. In this way Sri Lanka won the match by a big margin of 174 runs. Let me tell you that this is Australia's biggest defeat against any Asian team in terms of runs. With this, the Kangaroo team has also been cleaned and lost the ODI series 2–0. After 43 years, the Australian team is completely wiped out against Sri Lanka in ODIs.

Earlier, Sri Lanka did this feat in 1982.

Australia's batting failed again

Australia's batting proved to be a failure in this ODI series for the second consecutive time. In the first ODI too, the Kangaroo team could not chase the target of 215 runs. The entire team was all out on the score of just 165 runs. The same situation was seen in the second match as well. The Australian team, which was chasing 282 runs, stumbled in the beginning. The team lost its first wicket in the third over itself. After this, he got one shock in the 5th and 7th over.

With this, the team lost 3 wickets of the top order in 7 overs and came under pressure.

However, after this, captain Steve Smith, along with Josh English, shared a 46 -run partnership and tried to handle the innings. But in the 15th over, English also continued on the score of 79 and there was a series of wickets. In the next 3 overs, Aaron Hardy, Glenn Maxwell and Steve Smith also returned to the pavilion. In this way, 7 batsmen were dismissed by the score of 83 runs. At the same time, the remaining batsmen also surrendered while going for 107 runs.

Here are the heroes of Sri Lanka's victory

Kusal Mendis was the biggest hero of this strong victory of Sri Lanka. He did amazing batting during the first innings. After the first wicket fell early, Mendis shared a 98 -run partnership for the second wicket. He then added 94 runs for the 5th wicket with captain Charith Asanka. Kusal Mendis scored 101 runs in 115 balls during this period. Thanks to his innings, Sri Lanka managed to score 281 runs. Kusal Mendis Player of the Match was also chosen for the best batting.

At the same time, during the bowling, Asitha Fernando, Dunith Vellage and Vanindu Hasranga forced Australia batsmen to kneel.

Asitha hunted the top order batsmen. At the same time, Vellage and Hasranga did all the work of middle and lower order. In this match, Asitha and Hasranga took 3-3 wickets and Vellage took 4 wickets.

Asitha hunted the top order batsmen. At the same time, Vellage and Hasranga did all the work of middle and lower order. In this match, Asitha and Hasranga took 3-3 wickets and Vellage took 4 wickets.

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