Postpublished at 17:19 British Summer Time 28 October 2021
Simon Mann
BBC Test Match Special
This is an absolute shambles.
Summary
Australia chase 155 with 18 balls left
Second victory from two games
Warner 65 (42) - dropped on 18
Finch 37 (23), Smith 28* (26)
Sri Lanka 154-6: Perera 35 (25)
Asalanka 35 (27), Rajapaksa 33* (16)
Zampa 2-12, Starc 2-27
Super 12s, Group 1, Dubai
Australia face England on Saturday
Postpublished at 17:19 British Summer Time 28 October 2021
Aus 58-0published at 5 overs
Target 155
Aaron Finch can't capitalise on the free hit. He clubs it straight to mid-on and turns down the single.
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Simon Mann
BBC Test Match SpecialThat is one of the most outrageous deliveries I've even seen in international cricket.
Aus 56-0published at 4.5 overs
Target 155
What an earth is that!?!
Dushmantha Chameera has got this slower ball completely wrong. It didn't land on the current pitch and I'm not sure it landed on the next one.
A free hit for Australia...
Postpublished at 17:17 British Summer Time 28 October 2021
Alex Hartley
England spinner on BBC Test Match SpecialHe couldn't drop that again if he tried.
Postpublished at 17:17 British Summer Time 28 October 2021
Simon Mann
BBC Test Match SpecialThat was a 100-out-of-100 catch.
Warner dropped on 18published at 4.4 overs
Aus 54-0; Target 155
Oh no, this is horrendous.
David Warner cloths a pull shot down the leg side and through to Kusal Perera behind the stumps but he shells it. Has he closed his hands too quickly? It looks like it has hit the hard, fleshy part just before the thumb.
Dushmantha Chameera was off celebrating and umpire Richard Illingworth had started to raise his finger already and then almost put his hand over his mouth in utter disbelief.
That is a shocker.
Aus 54-0published at 4.3 overs
Target 155
Finch picks up four more with a cut to the third boundary.
The win predictor has got it 86-14 in Australia's favour now.
Postpublished at 17:14 British Summer Time 28 October 2021
Simon Mann
BBC Test Match SpecialWe're not even at the end of the powerplay yet...
Aus 49-0published at 4.1 overs
Target 155
My days. Australia are in a hurry here.
Aaron Finch plants Dushmantha Chameera back over his head another six.
Finch has now scored 2,500 runs in international Twenty20's. He is just the fifth person to reach that landmark after Virat Kohli, Martin Guptill, Rohit Sharma and Paul Stirling.
Postpublished at 17:12 British Summer Time 28 October 2021
Alex Hartley
England spinner on BBC Test Match SpecialIf you don't quite get your line and length right to this Australia pair, they will capitalise on it.
Aus 43-0published at 4 overs
Target 155
The moment David Warner's form changes?
He tries to pull Lahiru Kumara away but gets a thick edge past his stumps and away past short fine leg for four.
WOW! Shot! It is a decent delivery from Kumara but Warner pulverises a drive back ground the down and away for another boundary. Kumara had to dive out the way and Glenn Maxwell put his hands to his face in disbelief on the Australia balcony.
Postpublished at 17:09 British Summer Time 28 October 2021
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End of twitter postAus 34-0published at 3.3 overs
Target 134
My word. Aaron Finch looks in good touch here.
He picks up four more with another beautiful drive down the ground, before upper cutting over third for the first six of the innings.
It is shelled in the ground. Poor.
Postpublished at 17:07 British Summer Time 28 October 2021
Fourth over, fourth bowler for Sri Lanka.
Lahiru Kumara is having a bowl now.
Postpublished at 17:07 British Summer Time 28 October 2021
This was cheeky, but unsuccessful, from Pat Cummins...
Media caption, Cheeky Cummins tries to move boundary sponge to save boundary
Aus 23-0published at 3 overs
Target 155
Today is the first time in seven innings that Aaron Finch has passed 10 in a T20 international in the UAE. That seems remarkable.
Good start for Australia this. They are laying a platform.
Postpublished at 17:04 British Summer Time 28 October 2021
Simon Mann
BBC Test Match SpecialThere is a real keeness out there from Sri Lanka. They're right on this.
Aus 19-0published at 2.1 overs
Dushmantha Chameera is on for Sri Lanka...
.... and Dushmantha Chameera is dispatched to the boundary by Aaron Finch.
He toe-ends this straight drive but it is timed well enough to beat mid-on and bring up a third boundary.
Postpublished at 17:02 British Summer Time 28 October 2021
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