1st T20I: Josh Hazlewood, Adam Zampa energy Australia to 1-0 lead vs Sri Lanka

Australia rode on Josh Hazlewood’s career-best T20I figures to register a 20-run win over Sri Lanka on the Sydney Cricket Ground on Friday, within the rain-affected opener of the five-match sequence.

Australia comfortably defended a Duckworth-Lewis-Stern adjusted goal rating of 143, with spinner Adam Zampa (3-18) inflicting early harm earlier than Hazlewood iced the sport with late wickets.The vacationers ended on 122/8 after 19 overs, with the chase lowered after rain interrupted within the fifteenth over. The Sri Lankans struggled to regulate to the tempo of the wicket, with opener Pathum Nissanka (36) making the one significant contribution earlier than being caught off Zampa.”I thought we had to bowl well to defend that total on this wicket, it wasn’t the easiest wicket to bat on,” stated Australia skipper Aaron Finch.”It was pretty clinical with the ball.”The dwelling aspect, enjoying their first white-ball worldwide since successful the T20 World Cup in Dubai final November, have been despatched in to bat after dropping the toss.Ben McDermott struck three sixes in his knock of 53, combining with debutant Josh Inglis (23) to put a strong basis for Australia.From 75-1 after 10 overs, the center and lower-order faltered however Marcus Stoinis scored a fast 30 to make sure a aggressive complete of 149-9.The world’s top-ranked T20 bowler, leg-spinner Wanindu Hasaranga (3-38), had combined fortune together with his low-release round-arm variation, conceding a number of boundaries but in addition accounting for Glenn Maxwell who holed out for seven.Seamer Binura Fernando was essentially the most economical of Sri Lanka’s bowlers with 2-12 from 4 overs.”We didn’t get any partnerships going from the start … (so) we should come up with a better plan for the next game,” stated Sri Lanka captain Dasun Shanaka.The hosts have skilled a tumultuous month wherein the lads’s workforce went from successful the Ashes to unceremoniously parting methods with head coach Justin Langer, who resigned citing a scarcity of help from senior gamers.The second match, on Sunday, may even be performed in Sydney earlier than the sequence strikes to Canberra and Melbourne.