Australian veteran opener David Warner was everywhere on the field at Lucknow’s Ekana Sports City Stadium as Australia faced off against Sri Lanka. The Lankan Lions had started well, openers Kusal Perera and Pathum Nissanka stitched together a 125-run partnership before Pat Cummins drew first blood for his side.
David Warner took a flying catch to dismiss Nissanka on 61, he was on hand to take another catch of Sri Lankan captain Kusal Mendis. Warner, 36, ran nearly 24 metres before diving to end Mendis’ stay on the crease after 9 runs.
Later the swashbuckling opener was seen helping the ground staff, put the venue under covers as the heavens opened up and there was a brief halt in play during the 33rd over of Sri Lanka’s inning.
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Warner has been in good touch personally, but the Australian team have lost both of their ODI World Cup 2023 games, first to India and then to South Africa.
Against Sri Lanka too, Australia were on the backfoot courtesy of the opening partnership between Perera and Nissanka but as soon as Cummins drew first blood, it opened the floodgates.
Cummins’ twin strikes, combined with two wickets from Adam Zampa saw Sri Lanka on the back foot. They scored 51 runs in the batting powerplay, followed by 62 runs in the next 10 overs, but between the 21 to 30 overs, Sri Lanka collected 54 runs, losing four wickets.
After the rain delay, Mitchell Starc struck two balls later as he removed Dhananjaya de Silva on 7, Sri Lanka lost half their side for a score of 178.
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