New Delhi. The Sri Lankan team defeated the Netherlands by 8 wickets in their last match of the first round of the T20 World Cup (T20 World Cup-2021) on the back of brilliant performances from spinners Wanindu Hasaranga and Mahesh Thekshana. This match of formality was over within 2 hours. Bowling after winning the toss, Sri Lanka bundled out Netherlands for 44 runs in 10 overs, which is the sixth lowest score in the history of T20 cricket. After this Sri Lankan batsmen achieved the target in 7.1 overs. Opener Kusal Perera returned unbeaten on 33 off 24 balls.
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Netherlands has scored the second lowest score in the history of T20 World Cup. The Netherlands also holds the embarrassing record of making the lowest score in the T20 World Cup. Netherlands has made this record both the times against Sri Lanka. In the T20 World Cup 2014, Sri Lanka bundled out the Netherlands for 39 runs and achieved this target with 90 balls to spare. This time Sri Lanka achieved the target of 45 runs with 77 balls to spare. In the T20 World Cup, both the big wins in terms of balls have gone to Sri Lanka.
Sri Lanka will face Bangladesh in the first match of Super-12 on Sunday. The attractive spinners of the match against Netherlands were Hasranga and Mahesh. Hasaranga took 3 for 9 and Mahesh took 2 wickets for 3 runs. The Netherlands batsmen got caught one by one in the web of spin of both. Batting first, the Netherlands cheaply lost the wicket of in-form opener Max O’Doud. He was run out in the very first over on a straight throw by Sri Lankan captain Dasun Shanaka. After this Mahesh sent Ben Cooper (9 runs) to the pavilion with a carrom ball. In the same over, he bowled Stephen Myberg 5). At this time the score of Netherlands was 20 runs for three wickets.
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Leg spinner Hasaranga took two wickets in the fifth over. First he dismissed Colin Ackerman (11). After this Bass de Leede (0) was sent out leg before in the same way and sent to the pavilion. Half of the Netherlands team had returned to the pavilion within 32 runs. Van der Merwe could not even open the account while captain Peter Seelar scored only 2. Hasaranga dismissed him leg before. Right arm fast bowler Lahiru Kumara walked down the order and took three wickets for 7 runs. He took all three wickets in the 10th over.
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Sri Lanka lost the wicket of opener Pathum Nisanka (0) in the second over chasing the target but Perera then completed the formalities of victory. Charit Aslanka, who came in place of Dinesh Chandimal, could not take advantage of the opportunity and was dismissed after scoring 6 runs.
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