COLOMBO - Lasith Malinga turned into a one-man hit squad as he became the first man to pick up two World Cup hat-tricks to lead Sri Lanka to a crushing nine-wicket victory over Kenya yesterday.
Malinga, who missed his side's opening two matches with a sore back, fired back with the wickets of Tanmay Mishra (0), Peter Ongondo (0) and Shem Ngoche (0) with successive, full deliveries, the latter two clean bowled.
After finishing with a career best six for 38 to dismiss the Africans for 142, a relaxed Malinga sat back in the pavilion and watched his teammates chase down the score in just 18.4 overs.
In 2007, Malinga grabbed four in a row against South Africa.
It is the second hat-trick in two days at the World Cup after Kemar Roach took the last three Dutch wickets in West Indies' 215-run victory in Group B on Monday.
l The Court of Arbitration for Sport says it has received appeals from three Pakistan cricketers who were banned for spot-fixing in a match against England.
CAS says Mohammad Asif, Mohammad Amir and Salman Butt have filed challenges to their five-year suspensions imposed by the International Cricket Council's anti-corruption tribunal last month.
Butt also got a further suspended five-year ban, and Asif a two-year suspended sanction. -
Malinga hat-trick helps bury Kenya
COLOMBO - Lasith Malinga turned into a one-man hit squad as he became the first man to pick up two World Cup hat-tricks to lead Sri Lanka to a crushing nine-wicket victory over Kenya yesterday.
Malinga, who missed his side's opening two matches with a sore back, fired back with the wickets of Tanmay Mishra (0), Peter Ongondo (0) and Shem Ngoche (0) with successive, full deliveries, the latter two clean bowled.
After finishing with a career best six for 38 to dismiss the Africans for 142, a relaxed Malinga sat back in the pavilion and watched his teammates chase down the score in just 18.4 overs.
In 2007, Malinga grabbed four in a row against South Africa.
It is the second hat-trick in two days at the World Cup after Kemar Roach took the last three Dutch wickets in West Indies' 215-run victory in Group B on Monday.
l The Court of Arbitration for Sport says it has received appeals from three Pakistan cricketers who were banned for spot-fixing in a match against England.
CAS says Mohammad Asif, Mohammad Amir and Salman Butt have filed challenges to their five-year suspensions imposed by the International Cricket Council's anti-corruption tribunal last month.
Butt also got a further suspended five-year ban, and Asif a two-year suspended sanction. -
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