\u201cLot of emotions in the room right now. Haven\u2019t been at our best. Disappointed bunch at the moment.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nissanka was involved in a 97-run stand off 66 balls with Kusal Mendis for the second wicket, with the wicketkeeper-batsman posting his third 50 in the competition.<\/p>\n
Nissanka became the first Sri Lankan to score two hundreds in T20 internationals.<\/p>\n
After Mendis\u2019 dismissal, Nissanka and Pavan Rathnayake put on 76 off 34 balls to see Sri Lanka to victory.<\/p>\n
Nissanka played some glorious cover drives off the spinners and played some elegant flicks against the quicks.<\/p>\n
Sri Lanka came into the World Cup after a 3-0 drubbing at the hands of England, but have gained momentum and have won all three games so far.<\/p>\n
Australia\u2019s campaign has been plagued by injuries.<\/p>\n
Marsh, who missed the first two games, returned and gave them a rollicking start by scoring 54.<\/p>\n
Marsh and Travis Head (56) scored 104 runs off 51 balls for the first wicket.<\/p>\n
With Australia eyeing a total in excess of 200, Sri Lanka\u2019s slow bowlers kept them to 181 with leg-spinner Dushan Hemantha picking up 3-37.<\/p>\n
Australia collapsed as they looked for quick runs, losing their last six wickets for 21 in 24 balls.<\/p>\n
In Group C, England also booked a spot in the Super 8 stage, with West Indies in Group C, after a 24-run win over Italy.<\/p>\n
The Black Caps can also reach the next round with a win over Canada tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cLot of emotions in the room right now. Haven\u2019t been at our best. Disappointed bunch at the moment.\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2246,5263,85,24812,28491,3013,15364,10542,13845,159786,159787,8127,1888,3012,296,60319,29851,12514,111,139,159785,69,159784,22312,6102,213,29850,313,67648,1865,8982,159783,102,377],"class_list":{"0":"post-287177","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-2246","9":"tag-all","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australias","12":"tag-brink","13":"tag-but","14":"tag-century","15":"tag-cup","16":"tag-eight","17":"tag-eights","18":"tag-elimination","19":"tag-end","20":"tag-first","21":"tag-hopes","22":"tag-into","23":"tag-lanka","24":"tag-lankas","25":"tag-leave","26":"tag-new-zealand","27":"tag-newzealand","28":"tag-nissanka","29":"tag-nz","30":"tag-pathum","31":"tag-scored","32":"tag-side","33":"tag-sports","34":"tag-sri","35":"tag-super","36":"tag-t20","37":"tag-today","38":"tag-victory","39":"tag-wicket","40":"tag-with","41":"tag-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}