#3 Sri Lankan innings begins with a stutter
Sri Lanka’s stars in this World Cup had been their explosive openers, Sanath Jayasuriya and Romesh Kaluwitharana. One with arms of steel, the other a pocket sized dynamite. Together they had lit the tournament with their imaginative batting at the top of the order and were consistently giving Sri Lanka some really quick starts.
In this match though, luck was not on their side.
Jayasuriya was run-out in the second over of the innings with the score at just 12 and Kaluwitharana soon followed him to be dismissed for 6, caught by Michael Bevan off swing bowler and star of Australia’s semi-final win over the West Indies, Damien Fleming.
The scorecard read 23 and both the attacking openers were back in the hut for the Sri Lankans.
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