Sri Lankan cricket team in Australia in 2019–20

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Sri Lankan cricket team in Australia in 2019–20

	Australia	Sri Lanka
Dates	24 October – 1 November 2019
Captains	Aaron Finch	Lasith Malinga
Twenty20 International series
Results	Australia won the 3-match series 3–0
Most runs	David Warner (217)^[1]	Kusal Perera (100)^[1]
Most wickets	Pat Cummins (6)^[2]	Lasith Malinga (2)^[2]
Player of the series	David Warner (Aus)

The Sri Lanka cricket team toured Australia in October and November 2019 to play three Twenty20 International (T20I) matches.^[3]^[4] In May 2019, Cricket Australia confirmed the fixtures for the tour with matches being held in Adelaide, Brisbane and Melbourne.^[5]^[6] Aaron Finch was the captain of the Australian team, while bowler Lasith Malinga captained Sri Lanka.

In the opening match played at Adelaide, Australia recorded their biggest victory in a T20I match, winning by 134 runs off the back of a century by David Warner. They scored 233 runs for the loss of two wickets, before restricting Sri Lanka to 9/99 in their twenty overs. The following game in Brisbane, Australia won by nine wickets, winning the series with a game to spare.^[7] Australia won the final match by seven wickets to win the series 3–0.^[8] Australian batsman, David Warner ended up with the top run-scorer for the series with 217, and Pat Cummins was the leading wicket-taker with six dismissals.

Squads

T20Is
Australia^[9]	Sri Lanka^[10]
Aaron Finch (c) Alex Carey (vc, wk) Pat Cummins (vc) Sean Abbott Ashton Agar Glenn Maxwell Ben McDermott Kane Richardson D'Arcy Short Steve Smith Billy Stanlake Mitchell Starc Ashton Turner ~~Andrew Tye~~ David Warner Adam Zampa	Lasith Malinga (c) Niroshan Dickwella (wk) Avishka Fernando Oshada Fernando Danushka Gunathilaka Wanindu Hasaranga Shehan Jayasuriya Lahiru Kumara Kusal Mendis Kusal Perera Nuwan Pradeep Bhanuka Rajapaksa Kasun Rajitha Dasun Shanaka Lakshan Sandakan Isuru Udana

Ahead of the series, Andrew Tye was ruled out of Australia's squad with an elbow injury,^[11] with Sean Abbott named as his replacement.^[12] After the second game, Glenn Maxwell took an indefinite break from cricket to deal with a mental health issue and D'Arcy Short was named as his replacement.^[13]

Tour match

20 over match: Prime Minister's XI vs Sri Lanka

24 October 2019
19:10 (N)
Scorecard

Sri Lanka 8/131 (20 overs)	v	Prime Minister's XI 9/132 (19.5 overs)
Oshada Fernando 38 (25) Dan Christian 2/16 (3 overs)		Harry Nielsen 79 (50) Kasun Rajitha 3/21 (3.5 overs)

Prime Minister's XI won by 1 wicket
Manuka Oval, Canberra
Umpires: Geoff Joshua (Aus) and Troy Penman (Aus)
Player of the match: Harry Nielsen (Prime Minister's XI)

Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat.

T20I series

1st T20I

27 October 2019
14:00
Scorecard

Australia 2/233 (20 overs)	v	Sri Lanka 9/99 (20 overs)
David Warner 100* (56) Dasun Shanaka 1/10 (1 over)		Dasun Shanaka 17 (18) Adam Zampa 3/14 (4 overs)

Australia won by 134 runs
Adelaide Oval, Adelaide
Umpires: Gerard Abood (Aus) and Paul Wilson (Aus)
Player of the match: David Warner (Aus)

Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to field.
Kasun Rajitha's (SL) bowling figures (4-0-75-0) were the most expensive bowling figures in T20Is.^[14]
David Warner (Aus) scored his first century in T20Is.^[15]
In terms of runs, this was Australia's largest victory,^[16] and Sri Lanka's biggest defeat in T20Is.^[17]

2nd T20I

30 October 2019
18:10 (N)
Scorecard

Sri Lanka 117 (19 overs)	v	Australia 1/118 (13 overs)
Kusal Perera 27 (19) Adam Zampa 2/20 (4 overs)		David Warner 60* (41) Lasith Malinga 1/23 (3 overs)

Australia won by 9 wickets
The Gabba, Brisbane
Umpires: Gerard Abood (Aus) and Paul Wilson (Aus)
Player of the match: David Warner (Aus)

Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat.

3rd T20I

1 November 2019
19:10 (N)
Scorecard

Sri Lanka 6/142 (20 overs)	v	Australia 3/145 (17.4 overs)
Kusal Perera 57 (45) Pat Cummins 2/23 (4 overs)		David Warner 57* (50) Nuwan Pradeep 1/20 (3.4 overs)

Australia won by 7 wickets
Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne
Umpires: Shawn Craig (Aus) and Paul Wilson (Aus)
Player of the match: David Warner (Aus)

Australia won the toss and elected to field.
David Warner became the first batsman for Australia to score 2,000 runs in T20Is.^[18]

Statistics

Most runs

Rank	Runs	Player	Innings	Average	High Score	Strike Rate	100	50
1	217	David Warner	3	217.00+	100*	147.61	1	2
2	101	Aaron Finch	3	33.66	64	162.90	0	1
3	100	Kusal Perera	3	33.33	57	125.00
4	66	Steven Smith	2	66.00	53*	146.66
5	62	Glen Maxwell	1	62.00	62	221.42
Last Updated: 1 December 2019

Most wickets

Rank	Wickets	Player	Innings	Best	Average	Economy
1	6	Pat Cummins	3	2/23	13.16	6.58
2	5	Adam Zampa	2	3/14	12.80	5.33
3	4	Mitchell Starc	2	2/18	12.50	6.25
4	3	Ashton Agar	3	2/27	21.33	5.33
5	2	Billy Stanlake	1	2/23	11.50	5.75
		Kane Richardson	3	2/25	31.50	5.72
		Lasith Malinga	3	1/22	41.00	7.45
Last Updated: 1 December 2019

Sri Lankan cricket team in India in 2019-20

References

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^ ^a ^b "Most wickets in the 2019–20 Australia v Sri Lanka T20I series". ESPNcricinfo. Archived from the original on 1 November 2019. Retrieved 1 November 2019.
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^ "Stoinis dropped from T20I squad; McDermott, Stanlake recalled". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 8 October 2019.
^ "Bhanuka Rajapaksa, Oshada Fernando retained in Sri Lanka T20I squad". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 17 October 2019.
^ "Abbott called up to join Australia's T20 squad". Cricket Australia. Retrieved 26 October 2019.
^ "Sean Abbott replaces Andrew Tye for Sri Lanka T20I series". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 26 October 2019.
^ Cherny, Daniel (31 October 2019). "Glenn Maxwell to take break from cricket with mental health issue". The Age. Retrieved 31 October 2019.
^ "Sri Lanka Bowler Kasun Rajitha Achieves Unwanted Record; Concedes 75 Runs In 4 Overs". Cricket Addictor. Retrieved 27 October 2019.
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