Australia's dangerous opening batsmen David Warner is on the roll with the bat. After scoring 60 runs in the 2nd T20 against Sri Lanka, he has left Pakistan's legendary batsmen Hafeez in that case of most T20 international runs.
Sri Lanka's team batted first and scored just 117 runs, in response to which Australia won by losing just one wicket in 13 overs. David Warner (60*) was adjudged Man of the Match for the second consecutive match for another superb inning.
Earlier, Sri Lanka won the toss and decided to bat first, but once their batsmen flopped and the entire team was all out by scoring 117 runs in 19 overs. Kusal Perera scored the highest 27 runs, while Danushka Gunatilaka contributed 21 runs.
Due to losing wickets at regular intervals, once again Sri Lanka could not make a respectable score. Billy Stanlake, Pat Cummins, Aston Agar and Adam Zampa took two wickets each for Australia.
In reply, Australia had a poor start and skipper Aaron Finch was dismissed for 1 in the first over without opening the account. However, David Warner and Steve Smith did not allow the team to take any more blow after that and Australia won easily with 42 balls to spare. Both batsmen played an unbeaten partnership of 117 runs for the second wicket.
David Warner, who scored a brilliant century in the first match, scored 60 off 41 balls and Steve Smith scored an unbeaten half-century innings of 53 from 36 balls. The only breakthrough from Sri Lanka was given by captain Lasith Malinga.
David Warner breaks Mohammed Hafeez's record:
Australia's dangerous opening batsmen David Warner is on the roll with the bat. After scoring 60 runs in the 2nd T20 against Sri Lanka, he has left Pakistan's legendary batsmen Hafeez in that case of most T20 international runs.
David Warner has scored 1952 runs in 72 matches so far, while Hafeez had scored 1908 runs. Apart from Hafeez, Warner also left South Africa's ace allrounder JP Duminy (1935) and Afghanistan's fearless opening batsmen Mohammed Shahzad (1936) behind and currently placed at 6th place in the top run-getters in T20 Internationals.
The third and last match of the series between the two teams will be played in Melbourne on 1 November.
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