Sri Lanka won the bilateral series against West Indies in T20 International for the first time.
The West Indies team is currently on a tour of Sri Lanka, where it has come to play three T20 and ODI series of the same number of matches against the host team. The West Indies team started the T20 series very well and won the first match, but the Sri Lankan team won the second match by 73 runs and leveled the series at 1-1. The Sri Lankan team won the third match played in Dambulla by 9 wickets and won the T20 series 2-1. For the first time in the history of T20 International, the Sri Lankan team has also managed to win a bilateral series against the West Indies.
Mendis and Perera pair gave a one-sided victory to Sri Lanka
In the third match of this T20 series played at Dambulla ground, West Indies team, batting first, was successful in scoring only 162 runs in 20 overs. After this, the Sri Lankan team chased the target brilliantly in which an excellent partnership of 60 runs was seen between Pathum Nissanka and Kusal Mendis for the first wicket. However, Nissanka returned to the pavilion after playing an inning of 39 runs in 22 balls. From here, Mendis got the support of Kusal Perera and both the batsmen did not give any chance to the West Indies bowlers to take wickets and after achieving this target in 18 overs, their team won by 9 wickets. While Mendis played an unbeaten inning of 68 runs in 50 balls with the help of 5 fours and 3 sixes, Kusal Perera scored 55 runs in just 36 balls in which he hit 7 fours.
Sri Lankan team is continuously performing well during the tenure of Sanath Jayasuriya.
The Sri Lankan team was disappointing all the fans with its performance in international cricket for the last few years, but after Sanath Jayasuriya took over as the head coach, the team is once again seeing excellent performance on the field. In Jayasuriya’s short tenure so far, the Sri Lankan team managed to win one match during the Test series on England tour, won the ODI series against India, defeated New Zealand in the Test series and now the T20 International series against West Indies. Has also succeeded in winning.
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