Gayle Storm is Back Again with 109 Runs in 100 Balls with 4×9 , 6×7 which gives West Indies a comfortable win over Srilanka
Tri Series first match West Indies vs Srilanka @ Sabina Park, Kingston, West Indies started at 14:30 GMT | 09:30 local | 20:00 IST. West Indies winning the toss and elected to field first. From Srilanka Side U tharanga & M Jayawardena open the innings with first wicket partnership of 62 runs in 13.1 overs. Leading run scorer from SriLankan Side are AD Mathews (55 runs (4×5, 6×0) in 77 Balls) and M Jayawardene (52 Runs (4×7, 6×0) in 52 balls). SriLanka made 205 runs in 48.3 Overs with a loss of 10 wickets at run rate of 4.28. S Narine from West Indies took 4 wickets in his 10 overs.
From West Indies side its was Gayle back in action again with a superb century which leads West Indies an esay win over SriLanka. WI win by 6 wickets.
Man Of The Match :- Gayle
Also Read :- West Indies Tri Series 2013 Schedule – India, Sri Lanka, West Indies
Score Board
SriLanka innings (50 overs maximum)
| Sri Lanka innings (50 overs maximum) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | |
| WU Tharanga | c †Ramdin b DJ Bravo | 25 | 56 | 43 | 3 | 0 | 58.13 |
| DPMD Jayawardene | c †Ramdin b Narine | 52 | 86 | 52 | 7 | 0 | 100 |
| KC Sangakkara† | c Pollard b Narine | 17 | 42 | 23 | 1 | 0 | 73.91 |
| LD Chandimal | c DJ Bravo b Samuels | 21 | 49 | 37 | 1 | 1 | 56.75 |
| AD Mathews* | not out | 55 | 118 | 77 | 5 | 0 | 71.42 |
| HDRL Thirimanne | c Charles b Rampaul | 6 | 20 | 19 | 1 | 0 | 31.57 |
| KMDN Kulasekara | c Pollard b Rampaul | 2 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 33.33 |
| BMAJ Mendis | c Samuels b Narine | 5 | 18 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 41.66 |
| HMRKB Herath | c Sammy b Rampaul | 4 | 11 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 50 |
| SL Malinga | lbw b Narine | 8 | 14 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 88.88 |
| BAW Mendis | c Charles b DJ Bravo | 2 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 40 |
| Extras | (b 5, lb 2, w 4) | 11 | |||||
| Total | (all out; 48.3 overs) | 208 | (4.28 runs per over) | ||||
West Indies Bowling
| West Indies Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | Extra |
| KAJ Roach | 7 | 1 | 41 | 0 | 5.85 | |
| R Rampaul | 10 | 0 | 38 | 3 | 3.8 | (3w) |
| DJG Sammy | 10 | 0 | 34 | 0 | 3.4 | |
| DJ Bravo | 7.3 | 0 | 37 | 2 | 4.93 | |
| SP Narine | 10 | 0 | 40 | 4 | 4 | |
| MN Samuels | 4 | 1 | 11 | 1 | 2.75 | (1w) |
West Indies innings (target: 209 runs from 50 overs)
| West Indies innings (target: 209 runs from 50 overs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | |
| CH Gayle | c Chandimal b BAW Mendis | 109 | 129 | 100 | 9 | 7 | 109 |
| J Charles | c Jayawardene b Herath | 29 | 83 | 58 | 1 | 2 | 50 |
| DM Bravo | run out (Malinga/Kulasekara) | 27 | 48 | 30 | 4 | 0 | 90 |
| MN Samuels | not out | 15 | 25 | 24 | 1 | 1 | 62.5 |
| KA Pollard | lbw b Kulasekara | 0 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DJ Bravo* | not out | 8 | 13 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 72.72 |
| Extras | (b 4, lb 7, w 10) | 21 | |||||
| Total | (4 wickets; 37.5 overs) | 209 | (5.52 runs per over) | ||||
Sri Lanka Bowling
| Sri Lanka Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | Extras |
| SL Malinga | 7 | 0 | 34 | 0 | 4.85 | (1w) |
| KMDN Kulasekara | 8 | 1 | 39 | 1 | 4.87 | |
| BAW Mendis | 10 | 0 | 53 | 1 | 5.3 | (3w) |
| AD Mathews | 5 | 0 | 28 | 0 | 5.6 | |
| HMRKB Herath | 6 | 0 | 37 | 1 | 6.16 | |
| BMAJ Mendis | 1.5 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 3.81 |