Latest Match Report – Sri Lanka vs Oman 1st T20 2021/22

Oman faltered in 162 yachts and lost 19 runs

Sri Lanka 162 for four (Avishka 83 *, Shanaka 51 *) won Oman 143 for eight (Khushi 40, Kumara 4-30) in 19 runs

Unbeatable 83 Avishka Fernando and confident bowling at the forefront Lahiru Kumara Sri Lanka defeated Oman 19 times.

In the first of two T20Is, the parties will play before the T20 World Cup, Oman put Sri Lanka to beat after winning. They started perfectly, reducing Sri Lanka to 21 within three over five laps. Fayyaz Butt removed Dinesh Chandimal and Kamindu Mendis for gold ducks before Kaleemullah paid Pathum for Nissanka’s innings. Followed by a brief resurrection, but when Bhanuka Rajapaksa fell, Sri Lanka swung 51 and 4.

But since then, Sri Lanka began to take control. They would not lose another goal with the captain during the rest of the season Dasun Shanaka – who smashed 51 out of 24 – and Fernando looted 112 of the final 56 balls. On his own struggling to find an answer to the attack, Butt and Mohammad Nadeem leaked 84 in a total of eight overshoots. When Sri Lanka ended in 162, they found themselves on a much safer footing than they had been on most of the innings.

Oman was never behind the times. Just like Sri Lanka, they lost a bunch of early waves, Nuwan Pradeep and Kumara, six of them when Oman fell to 23 of four. The lower midfield back guards arrived on the scene, but they just made the scorecard look closer than the game really was. Mohammad Nadeem, Ayaan Khan and Sandeep Goud guided them through the center before Naseem Khushi in the lower order really loosened.

He hit 40 off 22, two four and four six on the way to take Oman past 140. However, when the demand rate was too high, the intensity may well have penetrated out of the game. He was disqualified from the last ball of the game, making an official win for the Sri Lankan side, who feel they still have a couple of levels to raise their game to.