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- Updated: November 23, 2016
Sri Lanka 330 for 7 (Dickwella 94, Kusal Mendis 94, Dhananjaya de Silva 58, Holder 3-57) v West Indies Live scorecard and ball-by-ball details
Niroshan Dickwella enhanced his growing reputation of a steady top-order batsman; his 106-ball 94 and a 107-run stand for the third wicket with Kusal Mendis, who made an effervescent 94, studded Sri Lanka’s 330 for 7 in their final tri-series league fixture on a green Queens’ Sports Club surface in sunny Bulawayo.
Sri Lanka lost Kusal Perera, cleaned up by Shannon Gabriel in the third over, but quickly got back on track courtesy Dhananjaya de Silva’s exuberant 58. The first signs of aggression came in the seventh over when Dickwella scooped Carlos Brathwaite over short fine leg, and followed that up by flicking a leg-stump half-volley for six. Then Dhananjaya took over, smacking two successive boundaries off Carlos Brathwaite’s next over as Sri Lanka raced to 71 for 1 in 10 overs. Dhananjaya matched Dickwella stroke-for-stroke in his half-century before lobbing a simple return catch to part-time offspinner Kraigg Brathwaite to leave Sri Lanka …
