Lasith Malinga had rattled the West Indians by sending back their explosive openers

After associate degree intensely fought contest, it had been the rain that had the ultimate say within the result as country sailed in to the ultimate of the Interstate Commerce Commission World T20 2014 with a 27-run convince West Indies via Duckworth Lewis methodology. Chasing 161 to win, storm and slight drizzle halted play. No sooner had the players and umpires walked off, the drizzle was an important rainfall and there have been hailstorms everyplace. this can be Sri Lanka’s consecutive look within the World T20 final. Last time around they'd lost to identical opposition within the final.

The first innings saw frequent shift in momentum however within the second, it had been all Sri Lankan domination apart from the primary over. Dwayne Smith started off the chase in promising fashion hammer a six and a boundary. associate degree erratic Nuwan Kulasekara additional assisted  the batsmen together with his obstinate deliveries. seventeen came of the primary. Skipper Lasith Malinga replaced Kulasekara and bowled a tidy 1st over. Chris Gayle has been unco discreet at the beginning and it had been no completely different here.

It’s common of Gayle to take care then unleash his shots when subsidence in, however this approach of getting into to a shell had began to hurt West Indies. And in an exceedingly semi-final, the pressure solely increased once he was bowled by Malinga off a bottom edge. however the in-form Smith was still going robust till he was overwhelmed by a slower delivery that came back in to him and saw his stumps disturbed.

It started as a light drizzle but within seconds the ground was under a sheet of hailstorms 

Sri Lanka had walked in to the second innings on a high after late blitz from Angelo Mathews which had powered them to 160. With the quality of their bowling, even on a batting-friendly pitch, the target would be stiff. Samuels, after the first innings felt that the total was competitive and he was confident with the wicket not as threatening as it has been in the past few matches.


Mathews’s 40 from 23 balls was preceded by some handy contributions from rest of the batsmen. The two senior pros, Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene failed to make an impact. Jayawardene was run-out for a duck without even facing a ball. But a 35-ball 44 from Lahiru Thirimanne and run-a-ball 39 from Tillakaratne Dilshan steadied the innings after quick loss of wickets.

Brief scores:

Sri Lanka 160 for 6 in 20 overs (Kusal Perera 26, Tillakaratne Dilshan 39, Lahiru Thirimanne 44, Angelo Mathews 40; Krishmar Santokie 2 for 46, Samuel Badree 1 for 23) beat West Indies 80 for 4 in 13.5 overs (Dwayne Bravo 30; Lasith Malinga 2 for 5) by 27 runs via D/L method.

Man of the Match: Angelo Mathews

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