Australia beat Sri Lanka to avoid Twenty20 series whitewash

ByReuters

Published 22/02/2017 at 12:46 GMT

Feb 22 (Reuters) - Australia beat Sri Lanka by 41 runs in their final Twenty20 game on Wednesday, avoiding a whitewash in the three-match series and salvaging some pride.

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Australia got off to a flier courtesy of captain and opening batsman Aaron Finch's 53 runs off 32 balls. His partner Michael Klinger scored a controlled 62 runs off 43 balls to help take the hosts to a total of 187.

Sri Lanka began impressively but wickets tumbled as they struggled to cope with leg-spinner Adam Zampa, losing five wickets, including that of in-form all-rounder Asela Gunaratne, between the eighth and 12th over.

Zampa and medium pacer James Faulkner picked up three wickets each. Australia were fielding a below-full-strength side with their test squad currently in India.

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Gunaratne was named man-of-the-series after scoring half centuries in the first two matches. (Reporting by Shravanth Vijayakumar in Bengaluru; editing by Richard Lough)

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