#2 Ajantha Mendis 4-0-12-4, Sri Lanka vs West Indies, 2012, Colombo
Mendis owns the best bowling figures at the T20 World Cup, but that wasn't quite his best bowling performance at the tournament. Instead, we pick his performance in the final of the T20 World Cup 2012 against an explosive West Indies, which came in a lost cause.
Mendis, bowling inside the powerplay, picked the big wicket of Chris Gayle in the 6th over with a straight ball. West Indies then consolidated to reach 73 for 2, but Mendis then scalped the wickets of Dwayne Bravo, Kieron Pollard and Andre Russell, the last two off successive deliveries, to peg West Indies back to 87 for 5 in the 16th over.
Thanks to Marlon Samuels’ cracking knock of 78, West Indies posted 137 and that turned out to be a winning total as Sri Lanka collapsed for just 101. Sunil Narine registered excellent figures of 3-9 as well to help West Indies lift the Trophy, but it was Mendis, who turned in the most memorable bowling performance of the day.
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