da bet7: Sri Lanka scored a convincing eight-wicket win over Australia to topGroup `D’ of the under 19 World Cup competition at the R
da bet7k: Saadi Thawfeeq15-Jan-2000Sri Lanka scored a convincing eight-wicket win over Australia to topGroup `D’ of the under 19 World Cup competition at the R. PremadasaStadium Saturday.Sri Lanka came through the first stage of the competition unbeatenwinning all three games to collect the maximum six points. They hadearlier accounted for Ireland and Namibia. Australia ended up secondwith four points from the same number of matches.Both teams qualified to play in the next stage of the competition -the Super league which starts on Tuesday. Sri Lanka play in SuperLeague 2 and Australia in Super League 1. In a game reduced to 42overs a side because of overnight rain, Australia winning the toss andbatting first were bundled out for 90 off 37.1 overs. Sri Lankanbowlers made use of the overcast conditions to reduce Australia to 21for 4 in the first six overs, before dismissing them.Shane Watson made a top score of 25 off 55 balls and Tim Welsford (11)raised the score by 22 in a sixth wicket stand, that produced the onlyresistance. Sri Lanka had five overs of batting before the lunch breakreaching 23 for no loss. Openers Kaushalya Weeeraratne and Ian Danielsput them on course for victory with a stand of 44 off 12 overs.Despite losing Weeraratne for 19 and Jehan Mubarak for eight, SriLanka coasted home easily to win in the 28th over.Ian Daniels unbeaten on 40 took his competition tally to 138 runswithout being dismissed. Tilina Kandambi who made the winning hit made18 not out.






