A dominant Sri Lanka thrashed Oman by 10 wickets within the ICC Cricket World Cup 2023 Qualifier to climb to the highest of Group B on the Queens Sports Club in Zimbabwe on Friday.
The win put Sri Lanka in a powerful place to qualify for the Super Six stage of the match.
Chasing a low complete of 99, openers Dimuth Karunaratne and Pathum Nissanka barely broke a sweat, finishing the duty in 15 overs.
Karunaratne was unbeaten on 61 whereas Nissanka scored 37 not out as Sri Lanka not solely sealed a win but additionally bolstered its internet run price.
Earlier, Sri Lanka skipper Dasun Shanaka known as it proper on the toss and opted to bowl. His name paid instant dividends because the islanders had a superb begin with the ball, with their pacers respiratory hearth on the Oman batters.
The tempo of Lahiru Kumara and Kasun Rajitha was an excessive amount of for the Oman top-order to deal with, because it discovered itself in large bother early on.
Kashyap Prajapati was the primary wicket to fall, as Kumara trapped him in entrance of the stumps. Aqib Ilyas adopted go well with, with Rajitha getting in on the act.
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Kumara was in no temper to cease as he despatched Zeeshan Maqsood and Mohammad Nadeem packing in fast succession, as Oman discovered itself reeling at 20 for 4.
Ayaan Khan and Jatinder Singh then embarked the job of rebuilding the innings for Oman, placing collectively a 52-run stand. But all of it modified once more in a blink of a watch as Wanindu Hasaranga delivered top-of-the-line overs of the Qualifier thus far.
The twenty first over of the innings from Hasaranga fetched him three wickets with out the bowler conceding a run. Hasaranga first trapped Jatinder Singh leg-before for 21 oin the primary supply, and on the third, the right-arm spinner cleaned up Shoaib Khan.
The Sri Lankan all-rounder grabbed his third wicket of the over, eliminating Jay Odedra on the ultimate supply.
Oman slid additional as miscommunication between Ayaan Khan and Naseem Khushi led to the latter being run out for one.
All this had left Oman reeling at 84/8 midway by way of their innings.
Ayaan’s gritty 41 ended with Hasaranga scalping his fourth, courtesy of a superb catch within the slips by Dhananjaya de Silva.
Hasaranga went on to finish his second consecutive five-wicket haul by trapping Bilal Khan for nought, as Oman have been bowled out for 98.
Scotland beats UAE by 111 runs
Scotland clinched a second win on the trot with their bowlers placing them in cost following a masterclass from Richie Berrington.
Chasing 283, UAE already had a tall ask at hand however Scotland bowlers produced a dominating present.
Chris Sole made early inroads with two consecutive blows to UAE,0 dismissing Aryansh Sharma (8) and Vritiya Aravind (0), because the double strike left UAE reeling within the fifth over.
UAE did not get better from the early blows.
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Rohan Mustafa (12) was bowled by Brandon McMullen whereas Asif Khan (17) couldn’t convert his begin, perishing in opposition to Mark Watt.
The massive wicket, although, got here when Muhammad Waseem, who was trying good, was pinned in entrance of the wickets by Watt for 36.
Sole then returned into the assault to take away Ali Naseer (19), pegging UAE additional again.
At the midway mark, UAE had a stiff problem forward, with the rating at 117/6.
Though UAE tried to take the sport deep with Basil Hameed (30), Aayan Afzal Khan (21) and Karthik Meiyappan (23 not out) main their progress, however common wickets for Scotland ensured their management on the sport.
UAE was bowled out for 171.
Source: sportstar.thehindu.com