SL vs WI T20 WC 2nd SF Result - Sri Lanka beat West Indies to play T20 WC Final with Pak on 21st June

SL vs WI T20 WC 2nd SF Result - Sri Lanka beat West Indies to play Final with Pak on 21st June

In the 2nd Semi Final of ICC Twenty20 World Cup, title favorite Sri Lanka easily beat West Indies by 57 runs on Friday, 19th June, 2009 at The Oval. SL made 158/5 in 20 overs and restricted WI to 1o1 all out in 17.4 overs and play T20 World Cup Final with Pakistan on Sunday, 21st June, 2009.

Sri Lanka invited to bat 1st put 73 runs for the 1st wickets in 10.3 overs thanks to good batting by Jayasuriya and Dilshan. Tilakratne Dilshan hit his best inning of T20 with and highest individual score of this tournament with unbeaten 96 runs off just 57 balls with 12 fours and 2 sixes.

West Indies got the worst start of their T20 game lost 3 wickets in 1st over with 1 run on the board, due to deadly bowling by Angelo Mathews took 3 wickets for 16 runs in 4 overs. Chris Galyle tried to clinch the match with unbeaten 63 runs off 50 balls but ran out of the partners as all out on 101 in 17.4 overs.

Match Summary:

Sri Lanka - 158/5 in 20 overs (Dilshan 96*, Bravo 2-32).

West Indies - 163/9 in 20 overs (Gayle 63*, Mathews 3-16, Muralitharan 3-29).

Toss - West Indies, who chose to field first.

Man of the Match - Tilakratne Dilshan (Sri Lanka)

Result - Sri Lanka won by 57 runs.