Sri Lanka will face India in the second semi-final to be held in Cardiff next Thursday. In yesterday's game, they defeated the previous two-time champion Australia by 20 runs and reached the last four. On the other hand, before the start of the Ashes, it is certain that Australia's complete collapse in the Champions Trophy will make them face a lot of criticism. Australia lost the match mainly to Mahela Jayawardene. Earlier, the Aussies had no choice to win today as the match was tied due to rain against England and a 48-run defeat against England. On the other hand, the victory was also essential for the Lankans to top New Zealand and go to the semis.
Australia won the toss and took the bowling, and Perera hit a four with the first short ball of the match by Mitchell Johnson. Perera collected a four from the leg bye on the next ball. But Johnson trapped Perera lbw on the third ball. McKay picked up Sangakkara, who scored a century with England at the head of the team's 20 runs. Thirimanne-Dilshan handled the initial shock by scoring 72 runs in the third wicket pair.
Dilshan gave a catch to Watson off Doherty's ball after scoring 34 runs off 58 balls. Mahela came to the crease. After 128 runs, Thirimanne was dismissed by Johnson for 57 runs. The Lankans lost the team's fifth wicket for 159 runs. Captain Mathews was bowled by Faulkner after scoring 12 runs off 20 balls.
But at the other end, Mahela Jayawardene kept the wheels of runs going. Chandimal-Mahela quickly added the required 65 runs in the sixth wicket partnership. When Chandimal was out for 31 off 32 balls, Mahela Jayawardene shouldered the burden of runs. He remained unbeaten with 84 from 81 balls in this match, losing 8 wickets and bringing Lanka a challenging score of 253 runs. He also became the eighth batsman in ODI history to reach 11,000 runs.
Apart from Johnson's 3 wickets, Mackay, Faulkner and Doherty got 1 wicket each.
In the first over of the second innings, Watson hit 4 in the first over of Eranga and Hughes hit 4 in the last over, with Watson taking one more run. The Aussies got off to a good start by picking up 9 runs in the first over. However, they were disillusioned when Watson was bowled by Kulasekara on the second ball of the second over. Kulasekara also picked up another opener Hughes after 45 runs.
Maxwell got back to the team with 59 runs before becoming dangerous with 32 runs off 20 balls by Mallinga. After that, Australia started losing wickets at regular intervals. At one point, they found 5 wickets for 80 runs. However, Adam Voggs and Matthew Wade put on a 47-run partnership for the sixth wicket, but Kulasekara once again gave the team a break through to break the pair. Wade, who scored 31 off 23 balls, was caught by Dilshan.
McKay-Doherty put on 41 in the ninth-wicket partnership to keep the victory alive when Vogs was dismissed for 49 off Herath's 192. However, when Dilshan's ball was caught by Dilshan, Macke got out and Australia conceded defeat by scoring 233 runs in 42.3 overs.
Kulasekara took 3 wickets, Herath 2 wickets and Eranga, Malinga, Mathews, Dilshan took 1 wicket each in Sri Lanka's win by 20 runs.
Mahela Jayawardene was adjudged Man of the Match for scoring 11,000 runs and helping the team build a challenging score.
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