Australia got its first win in the World Cup - defeated Sri Lanka by 5 wickets

AUS vs SL: Australian team defeated Sri Lanka by 5 wickets. Batting first, the Sri Lankan team set a target of 210 runs for Australia. The bowlers and batsmen played brilliantly for Australia. This is the first victory of the Australian team in the ODI World Cup 2023. Earlier, Australia had to face defeat against India and South Africa.

Australia won

Batting first, the Sri Lankan team could bat only 43.3 overs and lost all the wickets. This situation happened when there was a partnership of 125 runs between the Sri Lankan opening batsmen. Pathum Nissanka scored the highest innings of 61 runs and Kusal Perera scored 78 runs. Apart from these two, only Charit Asalanka could score 25 runs, all the other batsmen were out in single digits and returned to the pavilion. Adam Zampa took four wickets for 47 runs in eight overs. Whereas Mitchell Starc took two wickets and Pat Cummins took two wickets. The Australian bowlers had no answer to the Sri Lankan batsmen.

These batsmen scored half centuries

The Australian team, which was chasing a small target, had a very bad start. When opener David Warner returned to the pavilion after scoring only 11 runs. After this Steve Smith could not even open his account. But then after the fall of two wickets, Mitchell Marshan and Marnus Labuschagne batted brilliantly. Labuschagne scored 40 runs and Marsh scored 52 runs. Jose Inglis contributed 58 runs. In the end Glenn Maxwell scored 31 runs in a explosive manner. Dilshan Madhushanka took maximum three wickets for Sri Lanka.