ICC World Twenty20 : Sri Lanka v West Indies
June 19, 2009
Sri Lanka’s spin pair of Ajantha Mendis and Muttiah Muralitharan may have taken a grip on the World Twenty20, but their opponents at the Brit Oval today have little intention of poking around in deference.
They met in the first phase, when Tillekeratne Dilshan and Sanath Jayasuriya put on 124 for the first wicket in a winning total of 192. But West Indies have happy memories of the Oval, where Chris Gayle — who did not play in that first match — hit 88 not out from 50 balls in the game against Australia.
It was at the Oval, too, that West Indies won the Champions Trophy in near darkness in September 2004.
West Indies: (probable) 1 Chris Gayle, 2 Andre Fletcher, 3 Dwayne Bravo, 4 Lendl Simmons, 5 Ramnaresh Sarwan, 6 Shivnarine Chanderpaul, 7 Denesh Ramdin, 8 Keiron Pollard, 9 Jerome Taylor, 10 Sulieman Benn, 11 Fidel Edwards.
Sri Lanka (probable) 1 Sanath Jayasuriya, 2 Tillakaratne Dilshan, 3 Kumar Sangakkara (capt/wk), 4 Mahela Jayawardene, 5 Chamara Silva, 6 Jehan Mubarak, 7 Angelo Mathews, 8 Nuwan Kulasekara, 9 Lasith Malinga, 10 Muttiah Muralitharan, 11 Ajantha Mendis.
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