Sri Lanka game with Australia abandoned
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March 6, 2011, Sunday
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SRI Lanka's World Cup match against defending champion Australia was abandoned yesterday due to heavy rain.
Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara hit an unbeaten 73 to take the tournament co-host to 146-3 before rain forced players off the pitch in the Group A match at Colombo's R. Premadasa Stadium.
However, there was no let up in the rain, forcing match officials to call off the game and declare a 'no result'. Both teams shared a point each.
Australia now has five points in the group, after winning its two previous matches. Sri Lanka also has five after winning two and losing one of its three previous games.
Sangakkara hit his 61st one-day half-century to lift his side from an early slide in the match after winning the toss and batting first.
Sri Lanka lost its first two wickets by the time it reached 31 runs.
But Sangakkara was involved in two crucial partnerships - 44 with Mahela Jayawardene and an unbeaten 71 with Thilan Samaraweera before the rain arrived in the 33rd over.
Meanwhile, ICC chief executive Haroon Lorgat has written off the stoning of the West Indies team bus by furious Bangladesh fans as "a minor incident" not worthy of serious punishment.
Fans angered at the tournament co-host's nine-wicket defeat to the West Indies hurled stones at the bus as it left Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in the Mirpur suburb of Dhaka on Friday. But Lorgat said in Chennai yesterday he does not envisage tough sanctions over the incident from the International Cricket Council.
Lorgat acknowledged that the ICC could move matches to alternative locations if it has concerns over security but said that was unlikely.
"We would not move the games lightly but it is not something which we would discount completely," Lorgat said. "I don't believe that particular incident justifies any game being moved just yet."
Lorgat added that police had arrested suspects and that the ICC had requested a report on the incident from organizers.
West Indies media manager Philip Spooner said seven stones hit the right side of the bus, with two of them cracking windows. No one was hurt but Spooner said that West Indies team manager Richie Richardson would ask the West Indies Cricket Board to take the matter to the ICC for investigation.
Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara hit an unbeaten 73 to take the tournament co-host to 146-3 before rain forced players off the pitch in the Group A match at Colombo's R. Premadasa Stadium.
However, there was no let up in the rain, forcing match officials to call off the game and declare a 'no result'. Both teams shared a point each.
Australia now has five points in the group, after winning its two previous matches. Sri Lanka also has five after winning two and losing one of its three previous games.
Sangakkara hit his 61st one-day half-century to lift his side from an early slide in the match after winning the toss and batting first.
Sri Lanka lost its first two wickets by the time it reached 31 runs.
But Sangakkara was involved in two crucial partnerships - 44 with Mahela Jayawardene and an unbeaten 71 with Thilan Samaraweera before the rain arrived in the 33rd over.
Meanwhile, ICC chief executive Haroon Lorgat has written off the stoning of the West Indies team bus by furious Bangladesh fans as "a minor incident" not worthy of serious punishment.
Fans angered at the tournament co-host's nine-wicket defeat to the West Indies hurled stones at the bus as it left Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in the Mirpur suburb of Dhaka on Friday. But Lorgat said in Chennai yesterday he does not envisage tough sanctions over the incident from the International Cricket Council.
Lorgat acknowledged that the ICC could move matches to alternative locations if it has concerns over security but said that was unlikely.
"We would not move the games lightly but it is not something which we would discount completely," Lorgat said. "I don't believe that particular incident justifies any game being moved just yet."
Lorgat added that police had arrested suspects and that the ICC had requested a report on the incident from organizers.
West Indies media manager Philip Spooner said seven stones hit the right side of the bus, with two of them cracking windows. No one was hurt but Spooner said that West Indies team manager Richie Richardson would ask the West Indies Cricket Board to take the matter to the ICC for investigation.
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