Hello! Ayubowan! Welcome to CricketCountry’s live coverage of the second and final T20I between Sri Lanka and West Indies at R Premadasa stadium in Colombo on Wednesday. After losing the first T20 by 30 runs, West Indies will look to show resilience and win this encounter to salvage some pride. They miserably lost the Test and ODI series also. But in T20 cricket West Indies are a force to reckon with and won the World T20 in 2010. Sri Lanka are the reigning champions in T20s and considering present form they certainly have an upper hand in this match. This match is going to be interesting. The pitch may offer assistance to bowlers but the match can still be a high-scoring encounter like the last T20 played at Pallekele. LIVE CRICKET SCORECARD: Sri Lanka vs West Indies 2015, 2nd T20 at Colombo
Live Cricket Score West Indies 75/3 | Overs 9 | BATTING: Dwayne Bravo 6(7): Two quick wickets and the scoring rate slows down drastically. Siriwardana gets his second wicket, Charles gets out leg-before-wicket. Difficult situation for West Indies, they are tottering on 75 for the loss of three wickets in nine overs. OUT! Johnson Charles LBW Siriwardana 34(25)
Live Cricket Score West Indies 66/2 | Overs 7 | BATTING: Dwayne Bravo 1(2), Johnson Charles 31(18): Dushmantha Chameera is handed the ball. Fletcher hits a delivery towards mid-off, a half chance and Jayasuriya drops the catch. Chameera’s line is wayward, he goes for plenty. Left arm Milinda Siriwardana comes to bowl and gives Sri Lanka the first breakthrough. Fletcher is out LBW. Marlon Samuel comes to the middle, a comedy of errors and he is run out off a direct hit. OUT! Andre Fletcher LBW Siriwardana 23(21), OUT! Marlon Samuels run out Jayasuriya 1(1)
Live Cricket Score West Indies 39/0 | Overs 5 | BATTING: Andre Fletcher 8(15), Johnson Charles 28(15): Kulasekara gives just two runs in his second over, brilliant start by Sri Lanka. Spinner Sachithra Senanayake is brought into the attack in the fifth over itself; test for West Indies batsmen. Charles defends two balls and gets down the wicket and hits the offbreak bowler for a six. Charles sits and pulls the very next ball for six. He hits the fifth ball for maximum as well over the bowlers head; stand and deliver. A four towards deep mid wicket. Three sixes and a four, Charles has announced his arrival.
Live Cricket Score West Indies 15/0 | Overs 3 | BATTING: Andre Fletcher 0(0), Johnson Charles 0(6): Nuwan Kulasekra bowls the second over, he goes for plenty. Fletcher advances down the pitch and hits him towards deep backward point for four. Fletcher gets down the wicket next ball and slams Malinga towards mid off but is not able to time his shot well, three runs. Charles too advances but Malinga sees it and forces a yorker on his legs, only a single. Carter pulls the next ball but the shot is grounded, he gets one run.
Live Cricket Score West Indies 1/0 | Over 1 | Batting: Andre Fletcher 0(0), Johnson Charles 0(6): Lasith Malinga bowls the first over. Johnson Charles is unable to judge Malinga’s line. He defends a few balls and then survives an LBW, lucky for him the ball was missing leg. After five good deliveries, Malinga strays his line and bowls a wide down the leg. Charles tries to take a single the next ball but fails. It’s a good over. Great start by Sri Lanka.
In the first T20 Sri Lanka made a mammoth 215 and bowled out West Indies on 185. West Indies bowlers found it difficult to contain Sri Lankan batsmen early on. Also West Indies tail collapsed. If West Indies wants to win this match, they need to take early wickets and bowl economically at the death. Also their lower-order needs to show more resistance. Sri Lanka will hope that Tillakaratne Dilshan repeats his last match’s blitzkrieg and spinner Sachithra Senanayke continues to enchant with his spin. West Indies need all-round performances from Dwayne Bravo, Kieron Pollard and Darren Sammy. Sunil Narine picking important wickets and also being economical at the same time shall help West Indies in a long way.
Toss: West Indies have won the toss and elected to bat first.
Playing XI:
West Indies: Johnson Charles, Andre Fletcher, Marlon Samuels, Jonathan Carter, Andre Russell, Dwayne Bravo, Kieron Pollard, Denesh Ramdin(w), Darren Sammy(c), Sunil Narine, Jerome Taylor
Sri Lanka: Kusal Perera(w), Tillakaratne Dilshan, Shehan Jayasuriya, Dinesh Chandimal, Angelo Mathews(c), Chamara Kapugedera, Milinda Siriwardana, Sachithra Senanayake, Nuwan Kulasekara, Lasith Malinga, Dushmantha Chameera
Squads:
Sri Lanka: Lasith Malinga (c), Tillakaratne Dilshan, Kusal Perera (wk), Shehan Jayasuriya, Angelo Mathews, Milinda Siriwardana, Chamara Kapugedera, Dinesh Chandimal (wk), Kithuruwan Vithanage, Dushmantha Chameera, Nuwan Kulasekara, Sachithra Senanayake, Jeffrey Vandersay, Binura Fernando, Thisara Perera.
West Indies: Darren Sammy (c), Samuel Badree, Darren Bravo, Dwayne Bravo, Jonathan Carter, Johnson Charles, Andre Fletcher, Jason Holder, Sunil Narine, Kieron Pollard, Dinesh Ramdin (wk), Ravi Rampaul, Andre Russell, Marlon Samuels, Jerome Taylor.
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