Sri Lanka captain Dasun Shanaka on Sunday credited the spinners for their dominating nine-wicket win over Ireland in a T20 World Cup match, saying keeping spin options for the death overs did the trick.

It was the bowling unit, especially spin duo of Maheesh Theekshana (2-19) and Wanindu Hasaranga (2-25), who set up the win by restricting Ireland to 128-8.
“Really happy with the way we’ve played the game, we set out to do some things and did well. We knew spin would play a major role, we knew they’d like pace, so we kept a lot of spin for the back-end,” Shanaka said at the post-match presentation ceremony here.