The Australian bowler Adam Zampa was impressive as he dismissed four wickets in the match against Sri Lanka at the World Cup.
Adam Zampa on victory against Sri Lanka
Australia is scheduled to play in the 14th match of the ICC World Cup 2023 against Sri Lanka on October 16 at Lucknow Stadium. Winning the toss Sri Lanka chose to bat. Pathum Nissanka and Kusal Perera opened the innings while Mitchell Starc opened the bowling attack.
The openers had a good start as Pathum scored 61 runs on 67 deliveries while Kusal Perera scored 78 runs on 82 balls and was sent out by Pat Cummins.
With the dismissal of the openers, other batters were sent out with low figures. Kusal Mendis scored 9 runs while Samarawickrama scored 8 runs and was sent out by Zampa. With the dismissal of Samarawickrama, Sri Lanka was down to four wickets.
Asalanka scored 25 runs and was sent out by Maxwell. The Australian bowlers were so intense as they dismissed Sri Lanka batters on low figures. Adam Zampa dismissed 4 wickets while Pat Cummins and Starc dismissed two wickets.
Glenn Maxwell dismissed one wicket. By the end, Sri Lanka scored 209 runs losing all 10 wickets in the 44th over.
With the target of 210 runs, Mitchell Marsh and David Warner opened the innings while Lahiru Kumara opened the bowling attack. David Warner scored 11 runs and was sent out by Dilshan Madushanka on lbw.
Steven Smith was sent out with a duck by Dilshan Madushanka while Mitchell Marsh was impressive as he scored 52 runs on 51 deliveries and was sent out on a run out.
With the dismissal of Marsh, Australia scored 81 runs losing 3 wickets on 15th over. Marnus Labuschagne scored 40 runs on 50 deliveries and was sent out by Dilshan Madushanka.
Josh Inglis scored 58 runs on 59 deliveries and was sent out by Dunith Wellalage. With Glenn Maxwell and Marcus Stoinis’ 31 and 20 runs, Australia won the match by scoring 215 runs in the 36th over losing 5 wickets.
The Sri Lanka Bowler has one of his best bowling figures for Sri Lanka against Australia in World Cups with his 3/38 and joins the list for best bowling returns for Sri Lanka.
He stands second with Chaminda Vaas topping the list with the best figure of 3/34 runs in the World Cup 2003.
Adam Zampa was awarded with Player of the Match. While speaking at the post-match conference Zampa said, To be honest, I wasn’t feeling great because I had a bit of a back spasm. Was playing through it the last couple of days. Today I felt better, bowled better today.
(On coming out of the attack at the end) I think it was the captain’s decision to get the off-spinner against the lefties, and my back was also pretty sore. (On his performances so far) Personally, not at my best, and last game particularly felt I could have been doing better.
My job in this team is to take wickets in the middle order. Didn’t quite do that last game and put the pressure on the death bowlers. Today, I’ve been feeling better, but nice to come out on the winning side today.
Took a while to get into the game, just got to keep that wicket-taking attitude going, doesn’t matter if I leak some runs. (On the plans forward) I wish winning was that easy, we’ve got a big one against Pakistan in Bangalore next up. That’s going to be a tough one,” he concluded.
Australia is scheduled to play in the 18th World Cup match against Pakistan on October 20 at M. Chinnaswamy Stadium.
