Jayawardene ton gives Sri Lanka a most defendable total

Apr 24, 2007

Sri Lanka won the toss and chose to bat•Getty Images

Franklin to Jayasuriya, OUT, cleaned 'em up! Full outside off stump, swings in enough to lure Jayasuriya forward and flick across the line, only to miss it all ends up and hear the death rattle behind him! Franklin roars out his delight! •AFP

Upul Tharanga got his third fifty of this World Cup •Getty Images

Tillakaratne Dilshan contributed with a quick 27-ball 30•Getty Images

Lasith Malinga, super-charged as always, made life very tough for the New Zealand batsmen with an opening spell of 4-2-5-1 in Jamaica•AFP

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James Franklin gave New Zealand an early boost when he removed Sanath Jayasuirya for one in the third over•AFP

Kumar Sangakkara was dismissed for several runs short of his unbeaten 69 in Sri Lanka's Super Eights match against New Zealand•AFP

Vettori to Tharanga, OUT, Around his legs! Cleaned him up. Vettori fires it quick and flat and on middle and leg. Tharanga chooses the wrong shot, trying to sweep past short fine, and goes way across his stumps, exposing the middle and leg. The ball is too quick for him and goes around his pads to rattle middle.•AFP

Styris to Jayawardene, FOUR, short on off stump, and in a flash he whips into position and pulls behind square leg for four, lovely shot•Getty Images

Full and pacy, close to 150kph, pitching on off and moving in. Fleming can't read the movement and bat is nowhere near the ball as it crashes into his front pad. Massive appeal and Koertzen raises the slow finger of death. Replays indicate that the ball was going on to hit the top of off. Fleming gone. Big wicket•AFP

Doosra again, and another wicket. McCullum goes for the sweep from off to leg and doesn't seem to have read the one that's leaving him. Ball balloons up off the top edge and Chamara Silva, prowling at short fine leg, moves quick and pulls off a sensational diving catch. It was dipping quickly but he lunged full length and held on.•AFP

Franklin to Sangakkara, OUT, gone! Soft dismissal, comes down the track, chips it across the line and can only find Fleming, diving forward just a little, at mid-on, to end whats been a very sluggish innings•AFP

Bond to Silva, OUT, unlucky! Bond switches to a fuller length, gets it to angle in from outside off stump, Silva gets stuck deep in the crease, jabs the bat down onto it, gets a relatively thick inside-edge back onto the pads - an awkward noise, if ever there was one - and after a couple of seconds Koertzen raises the finger•Getty Images

Jayawardene went on to star in Sri Lanka's innings with an unbeaten 115•Getty Images

Scott Styris counterattacked with a few big hits but fell to trigger a collapse•AFP

it's the doosra again and cleans him up, Vettori doesn't read it and pushes forward tentatively, the ball is spinning into him and, though he is well forward, that would have gone on to hit the stumps. Rudi Koertzen is at it again - raising the slow hand of death. He was forward but he was also quite plumb•AFP