Hasaranga and Kumara set up Sri Lanka’s demolition of Oman

Sri Lanka 100 for 0 (Karunaratne 61*) beat Oman 98 (Ayaan 41, Hasaranga 5-13, Kumara 3-22) by ten wickets

The character of the win has additionally given a major enhance to Sri Lanka’s web run charge – one thing which they are going to be capable of carry over to the Tremendous Sixes stage, offered Oman qualify. As for Oman, they continue to be in a very good place to make the following spherical regardless of this defeat, with two wins from their three video games.

On an overcast and chilly Bulawayo morning, Dasun Shanaka wasted little time in placing Oman into bat, with proceedings anticipated to be powerful for the batters early on.

Kumara’s subsequent two would come courtesy some shorter stuff, with first Zeeshan Maqsood after which Mohammad Nadeem chipping to sq. leg. He would finish with figures of three for 22 in eight overs – a Participant-of-the-Match worthy efficiency on some other day.

Kasun Rajitha on the different finish picked up only a solitary wicket however was persistently threatening by bowling the nagging line outdoors off. Fittingly, it was an outswinger to Aqib Ilyas that will give him a deserved return, with the right-hander pushing uncertainly outdoors his off stump solely to get a thick edge to a recently-installed fifth slip.

The Kumara-Rajitha one-two combo would finally see Oman slide to twenty for 4 halfway via the tenth over. Karunaratne, talking after the sport, mentioned the circumstances offered the tempo assault a gap they usually grabbed it. “Immediately we gained the toss and there was one thing for the quick bowlers, with the cloudy circumstances. They grabbed the chance.”

However in a single Hasaranga over all such hopes had been vanquished. Three googlies, three wickets, zero runs – Jatinder, Shoaib Khan and Jay Odedra all despatched packing. Jatinder and Odedra had been dismissed lbw whereas Shoaib was castled after an ill-advised try at a slog. After that it was only a matter of time.

Ayaan sought to soldier on with the tail, however Hasaranga wasn’t having any of it. He would full his five-for trapping Bilal Khan lbw because the final man. 4 of his 5 wickets had been both lbw or bowled. Solely Ayaan, who was caught expertly at slip, would require the intervention of a team-mate. There was a run-out within the combine as effectively, simply to compound a depressing day for Oman and one more good outing for Sri Lanka.

Karunaratne summed it up: “We have gained convincingly, and that is what we have wished to do. All the pieces is is fairly good condition. However we need to take it match by match and get to the Tremendous Sixes.”