End of over 17 (4 runs) Sri Lanka 102/5 (46 runs required from 18 balls, RR: 6.00, RRR: 15.33)

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AD Mathews12 (19b 0x4 0x6)
MD Shanaka5 (6b 0x4 0x6)
Mustafizur Rahman3-0-14-1
Shakib Al Hasan4-0-21-2
16.6
Mustafizur Rahman to Mathews, 1 runEnd of over 17 (4 runs) Sri Lanka 102/5 (46 runs required from 18 balls, RR: 6.00, RRR: 15.33), makes a bit of room to a full ball on off stump, jabs it down to long-off
16.5
Mustafizur Rahman to Mathews, no run, this one's full and quick, angling away wide of off stump. Saw Mathews step down the pitch and fires it wide of him. Reaches out to it, can't make contact
 

The last four came in the seventh over. The last six in the eleventh.

 
16.4
Mustafizur Rahman to Shanaka, 1 run, full outside off, stabbed to sweeper cover
16.3
Mustafizur Rahman to Shanaka, no run, slower length ball, angles across the right-hander and nips away from the stumps. Slogs across it, misses it, and the ball doesn't miss off stump by much
16.2
Mustafizur Rahman to Mathews, 1 run, length ball outside off, Mathews whips with a lot of bottom hand to mid-on. Takes a hurried single, and a direct hit would have had him out by a few centimetres
16.1
Mustafizur Rahman to Shanaka, 1 run, shortish on off stump, clears his front leg and swats it away to deep midwicket, who's stationed alnost at wide long-on
 

Here's Mustafizur.

Samarth: "Seems like Jayawardene might have also given some tips to Bangladesh to help topple Sri Lanka. SL cricket board must be even more sad and disappointed."



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