Watch the highlights of Sri Lanka vs Kenya 14th Match ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 - ICC Cricket World Cup tournament of the 14th ODI match played between Kenya and Sri Lanka at R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo in 01st March 2011.
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| Lasith Malinga took career-best 6-wicket haul including a hat-trick © ICC |
Match Stats :
- Sri Lanka's 9-wicket win was their joint second largest victory by terms of wickets remaining in One-day international, it is their 15th time win by nine wickets, It is their first time Sri Lanka had defeated Kenya by nine wickets in ODIs and their second 9-wicket win in World Cups.
- Sri Lanka's 188-balls spare win was their largest victory by terms of balls remaining against Kenya in One-day international and It is their third biggest win World Cups.
- Lasith Malinga became the only bowler to picking up two hat-tricks in World Cups. His previous one had come against South Africa in 2007. So far, six bowlers have taken a hat-trick in World Cups.
- This was also the first instance of bowlers taking hat-tricks in consecutive matches in a World Cup. The 2003 World Cup was the last edition to see two hat-tricks.
- Lasith Malinga's 6 for 38 was the tenth best bowling performance for Sri Lanka in One-day international, It is the best bowling figures by an Sri Lanka bowler against Kenya in ODIs, surpassing the previous record of 4 for 18 held by Muttiah Muralitharan at Nairobi (Gym) in 1996 and the second-best bowling figures by an Sri Lankan bowler in World Cups after Chaminda Vaas' 6 for 25 against Bangladesh in 2003.
- 94 : David Obuya and Collins Obuya set up the fourth-best for Kenya for the third wicket partnership in World Cups.
- Apart from David Obuya and Collins Obuya, the rest of the batsmans failed to reach double figures and aggregated just 20 runs among them. From a decent position of 120 for 3, Kenya lost the last seven wickets for just 22 runs to be bowled out for 142.
- David Obuya's strike-rate of 48.11 and Collins Obuya's strike-rate of 52 are third and seventh on the list of lowest strike-rates for scores between 50 and 99 in World Cups. The lowest is Ishwar Maraj's 53 off 155 balls, at a strike-rate of 34.19 against South Africa in 2003.
- The 188 dot-balls in the Kenya innings is the second-highest in the 2011 World Cup, behind the 194 dots in Canada's innings against Zimbabwe.
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Kenya scored were 102-3 to 142 for all-out in 43.4 overs with top scorer by Collins Obuya cracked a 52 off consumed 100-balls including four-fours and David Obuya struck 51 off consuming 106-balls included 3-fours.
Sri Lanka best bowler by Lasith Malinga claims 6-38, Nuwan Kulasekara, Angelo Mathews and Muttiah Muralitharan each took one-wickets.
Sri Lanka chased 146-1 in 18.4 overs with top scorer by Upul Tharanga cracked a unbeaten 67 off 59-balls including 12-fours, Tillakaratne Dilshan hammered a quick-fire 30-ball 44-runs included 8-fours with strike rate of 146.66 and Kumar Sangakkara 27 not out.
Kenya best bowler by Elijah Otieno took one wicket for 26-runs in 4-overs.
Lasith Malinga named Player of the match for his magnificent hat-trick including claimed 6-wickets for 38-runs in 7.4 overs.
