Bumps for Sri Lanka on David Warner's birthday
Updated On: 28 October, 2019 07:26 AM IST | Adelaide | AFP
Ashes flop dazzles with 56-ball 100* to smash visitors by 134 runs in opening T20 international at Adelaide Oval
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Australia's David Warner celebrates his century during the T201 against Sri Lanka at Adelaide Oval yesterday. Pic/Getty Images
Adelaide: David Warner emphatically bounced back to form with a first-ever Twenty20 century as Australia crushed Sri Lanka by 134 runs in their opening match of the three-game series here at the Adelaide Oval yesterday.
Birthday boy Warner clubbed an unbeaten 100 as he powered Australia to 233 for two, aided by century stands with skipper Aaron Finch and Glenn Maxwell. Sri Lanka limped to 99 for nine from their 20 overs in a meek response, with leg-spinner Adam Zampa capturing three for 14. It was Australia's biggest-ever win in the format and Sri Lanka's heaviest T20 defeat. Coming off a dismal Ashes campaign in England and low scores in the new domestic season, Warner plundered his ton off 56 balls with four sixes and 10 fours. The left-handed opener scored just 95 runs in 10 innings for Australia's Ashes retention, but once he got set he pounded the Sri Lankan bowlers with belligerence, and reached his hundred off the last ball of the innings. The ton on his 33rd birthday was complemented by blistering half-centuries from Finch and Maxwell, as the Australians ripped into the Sri Lankan bowlers -- with Kasun Rajitha's 0-75 off four overs proving the most expensive figures in a T20I.
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