Australia won by 10 wkts
PLAYER OF THE MATCH : Josh Hazlewood
Batter
Bowler
That's it from this one. Australia have gone 1-0 up in the series with two matches to go. The next game is tomorrow. We'll see you then. Goodbye!
Finch, Australia captain: We've had a similar group for quite a period of time. The guys all know their roles. It's just about giving them confidence. With the ball when Josh is bowling consistent lengths, we know how hard it is to face that. SL played well in the powerplay, and we were able to control the middle overs. Was nice to get a few, have a good partnership with Davey there. They bowled well in the first couple of overs. Theekshana has been giving us problems for a while now. But it was a good performance.
Shanaka, SL captain: It's a day everything went wrong. First game of the series, hoping we'll have better days. Batters will definitely come with a plan in the next game. We got a strong side, matter of one win.
Hazlewood, Player of the Match: It's obviously quite hot here, quite sweaty. Wicket is slow, but you can use that to your advantage. The new ball flew off the bat a little bit, and we dragged it back (length). Have been working hard on my T20 game. Playing a lot of it. And we saw that tonight.
23:09 Local Time, 17:39 GMT, 23:09 IST: Australia get home with six overs to spare. They've crushed Sri Lanka in this first T20I by 10 wickets as Finch and Warner get the job done after a lovely bowling display led by Josh Hazlewood. Things fell apart for Sri Lanka as they suffered a big collapse, going from 100/1 to 128 all out after being put in to bat. It left little for their bowlers to defend, and the opening pair of Warner and Finch closed the door pretty quickly. Hazlewood was just superb today, returning figures of 4/16 - three of them coming in one over to derail the Sri Lankan innings.
END OF OVER 14
19 Runs
AUS: 134 - 0
0 4 4 1 4 6
Aaron Finch
61 (40)
David Warner
70 (44)
Dushmantha Chameera
4-0-48-0
Chameera to Finch, SIX, banged in short outside off, Finch ramps it in the air and it's gone sailing over third man. And that is that
Chameera to Finch, FOUR, short of length just outside off, Finch guides it quite fine and beats third man who dives in vain
Chameera to Warner, 1 run, tucks this wide of midwicket
Chameera to Warner, FOUR, short of length around the waist, Warner pulls it wide of fine leg. The fielder gets there but fails to cut it off
Chameera to Warner, FOUR, back of a length down leg, Warner whips it to the fine leg boundary
Chameera to Warner, no run, good length on middle, Warner defends in front of cover
Dushmantha Chameera [3.0-0-29-0] is back into the attack
END OF OVER 13
12 Runs
AUS: 115 - 0
1 1 Wd 2 Wd 4 1 1
David Warner
61 (40)
Aaron Finch
51 (38)
Nuwan Thushara
2-0-21-0
N Thushara to Warner, 1 run, good length on off, driven to long-on
N Thushara to Finch, 1 run, close to the blockhole, Finch squeezes it down to long-on
N Thushara to Finch, FOUR, pitched up outside off, Finch slices it over backward point and that's his fifty as well
N Thushara to Finch, wide, short ball down the leg-side, left alone
N Thushara to Finch, 2 runs, clipped through midwicket, back for two
N Thushara to Finch, wide, wide down the leg-side
N Thushara to Warner, 1 run, full and wide, driven to sweeper cover
N Thushara to Finch, 1 run, flicked off the pads behind square