World Cup: Malinga hat-trick helps Sri Lanka maul Kenya

Lasith Malinga recorded his second World Cup hat-trick

(TOI)
COLOMBO. Lasith Malinga recorded his second World Cup hat-trick and a career-best 6/38 to spark Sri Lanka's crushing nine-wicket win over Kenya on Tuesday.
The 27-year sling-action bowler, who missed Sri Lanka's opening two matches due to a back strain, trapped Tanmay Mishra (nought) lbw with the last ball of his seventh over.
At the start of his next, he bowled Peter Ongondo and Shem Ngoche in successive balls to complete his hat-trick, finishing the innings at 142 in 43.4 overs, by bowling Elijah Otieno (0) to complete a four-wicket burst off six balls.
Sri Lanka polished off the runs in just 18.4 overs with Tillakaratne Dilshan (44) and Upul Tharanga (67 not out) giving the co-hosts a flying start with a first-wicket stand of 72 by the ninth over.
Even after Dilshan's 30-ball knock, which was spiced with eight boundaries, skipper Kumar Sangakkara (27 not out) and Tharanga polished off the runs with more than 31 overs to spare, completing another miserable day for Kenya.
Tharanga hit 12 boundaries during his rampaging 59-ball knock, his fifth World Cup half-century.
The win put Sri Lanka back on track in Group A after losing to Pakistan by a narrow 11-run margin on Saturday.
The 1996 champions, who won their first match against Canada by 210 runs, now have four points from three games. They next play defending champions Australia on Saturday.
It was all Malinga in the afternoon after Kenya, who chose to bat, were on track for a near-200 total but lost their last eight wickets for a mere 40 runs with Malinga the destroyer-in-chief.
Malinga's previous best of 5/34 was recorded against Pakistan at Dambulla last year.
His hat-trick is the seventh in all World Cup matches and came just a day after West Indian Kemar Roach took three-in-three against the Netherlands in New Delhi.
But the curly-haired Malinga is the only man to have two hat-tricks in World Cup history, his first coming against South Africa at Guyana in the 2007.
Kenya, shot out for 69 against New Zealand and 112 against Pakistan, started disastrously with Nuwan Kulasekara dismissing opener Morris Ouma (one) in the second over before Malinga had Seren Waters (three) lbw in the next.
Brothers Collins Obuya (52) and David Obuya (51) steadied the innings during their snail-paced, 94-run partnership which came off 178 balls before Malinga broke the family association, by bowling Collins Obuya.
Collins Obuya, whose five wickets helped Kenya upset Sri Lanka at the 2003 World Cup, hit four boundaries during his sedate 100-ball knock. His elder brother hit three fours during his 106-ball innings.
With Malinga firing all cylinders, four of the last seven batsmen failed to score.Kenya, who have no points after three matches, now face fellow minnows Canada in New Delhi on March 7.
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score card 

Kenya innings (50 overs maximum)		R	B	4s	6s	SR
	MA Ouma†	lbw b Kulasekara	1	7	0	0	14.28
	1.2 Kula strikes with his second delivery! that inward movement from a length, he was pushing forward outside the line, was struck on the knee roll in front of the stumps, umpire gave him out right away, Ouma goes for the review, but that is hitting middle of middle, and Kenya's troubles continue 4/1
	SR Waters	lbw b Malinga	3	4	0	0	75.00
	2.1 Waters is gone! Malinga gets one of those lethal indipping yorkers bang on target, right on the toes, Waters is hurled in the air with the impact, and goes down on all fours, no one has any doubts about where that was heading, not even Waters, who gets up and starts walking back, no review from Kenya 8/2
	CO Obuya	b Malinga	52	100	4	0	52.00
	31.4 that's almost the perfect yorker. Collins is on his way. The sling is in. Malinga's catapult side-arm action means it marginally tails away as it comes out of his hand before the laws of fluid dynamics take over. Around halfway down it begins to move in. Collins knows he's in trouble, he tries to cover the line. The ball tails in some more. The bat comes down. Too late, and not playing down the right line. The base of off stump takes a hammering. 102/3
	DO Obuya	c Samaraweera b Muralitharan	51	106	3	0	48.11
	40.1 74.4 kph, Murali jogs in, and bowls a flighted one from round the stumps, he goes down for the slog sweep, and picks out the man at deep midwicket with precision, looped away high in the air and came down in his hands nicely, Obuya is gone 127/5
	SO Tikolo	c Dilshan b Mathews	7	17	1	0	41.17
	36.2 Dilshan plucks a rocket out of the air, and is mighty pleased with it, it was short and wide, Angelo is lucky to get that one, it was bashed off the back foot hard and scorched its way to Dilshan at point. who took it cleanly around chest height, Angelo smiles, Tikolo walks back 120/4
	T Mishra	lbw b Malinga	0	13	0	0	0.00
	41.6 Malinga was trying this when he was firing in those full tosses, gets it right this time, the yorker crashes into the boot, too bad he could not get it out of the way, the umpire gave him the finger, but Kenya go for the review, Malinga is too tight there with the front foot, was it a no-ball, was there some part of the foot behind the landing crease, the ball then moved in late, and would have gone on to just strike leg stump, graze it as it were, the on-field call stands, it's not a no-ball, it is hitting leg, and Mishra's misery is over 137/7
	JK Kamande*	run out (Silva)	1	3	0	0	33.33
	41.1 from Malinga, what's that? is it a plane? is it a bird? is it Rhodes? no it's Chamara Silva, a steaming yorker from Malinga, just about dug out by the batsman, but they make the mistake of attempting the single, Silva runs in from midwicket, picks up the ball, and goes flying in to stumps horizontally at the striker's end, catching the batsman way out of his ground, as the replays confirm 128/6
	NN Odhiambo	not out	8	10	2	0	80.00
	PJ Ongondo	b Malinga	0	1	0	0	0.00
	43.1 144.1 kph, 144 kph yorker, make way, that is headed only one way, the middle stump is shaken out of its stupor, no chance for the batsman, this is Malinga at his lethal best, want yorker, get yorker, on demand, any time 137/8
	SO Ngoche	b Malinga	0	1	0	0	0.00
	43.2 143.3 kph, take a bow, Lasith Malinga, it's a hat-trick, he had got one on the last ball of his previous over, homes in on middle stump, nothing can stop it, least of all poor Shem Ngoche, who was just about expecting this, but could not do anything to stop it, it scorches its way past the gap between bat and pad, the shatterer of stumps has five 137/9
	E Otieno	b Malinga	0	2	0	0	0.00
	43.4 143.5 kph, it's all over for Kenya, they have been blown away by the marauder, another one sears in on the stumps, nothing can be done about it, it's destined to knock the leg stump out of its position, and does so, the batsman is only a sideshow, everything else is a sideshow, it is only Malinga, the ball, and the stumps, six wickets for the champion, the crowd roar their lungs out, got to feel for Kenya, their only mistake was to come in the way of Malinga and his targets 142/10
	Extras	(b 1, lb 6, w 9, nb 3)	19
	Total	(all out; 43.4 overs)	142	(3.25 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-4 (Ouma, 1.2 ov), 2-8 (Waters, 2.1 ov), 3-102 (CO Obuya, 31.4 ov), 4-120 (Tikolo, 36.2 ov), 5-127 (DO Obuya, 40.1 ov), 6-128 (Kamande, 41.1 ov), 7-137 (Mishra, 41.6 ov), 8-137 (Ongondo, 43.1 ov), 9-137 (Ngoche, 43.2 ov), 10-142 (Otieno, 43.4 ov)

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
	SL Malinga	7.4	0	38	6	4.95	(2nb, 3w)
	2.1 to Waters, Waters is gone! Malinga gets one of those lethal indipping yorkers bang on target, right on the toes, Waters is hurled in the air with the impact, and goes down on all fours, no one has any doubts about where that was heading, not even Waters, who gets up and starts walking back, no review from Kenya 8/2 31.4 to CO Obuya, that's almost the perfect yorker. Collins is on his way. The sling is in. Malinga's catapult side-arm action means it marginally tails away as it comes out of his hand before the laws of fluid dynamics take over. Around halfway down it begins to move in. Collins knows he's in trouble, he tries to cover the line. The ball tails in some more. The bat comes down. Too late, and not playing down the right line. The base of off stump takes a hammering. 102/3 41.6 to Mishra, Malinga was trying this when he was firing in those full tosses, gets it right this time, the yorker crashes into the boot, too bad he could not get it out of the way, the umpire gave him the finger, but Kenya go for the review, Malinga is too tight there with the front foot, was it a no-ball, was there some part of the foot behind the landing crease, the ball then moved in late, and would have gone on to just strike leg stump, graze it as it were, the on-field call stands, it's not a no-ball, it is hitting leg, and Mishra's misery is over 137/7 43.1 to Ongondo, 144.1 kph, 144 kph yorker, make way, that is headed only one way, the middle stump is shaken out of its stupor, no chance for the batsman, this is Malinga at his lethal best, want yorker, get yorker, on demand, any time 137/8 43.2 to Ngoche, 143.3 kph, take a bow, Lasith Malinga, it's a hat-trick, he had got one on the last ball of his previous over, homes in on middle stump, nothing can stop it, least of all poor Shem Ngoche, who was just about expecting this, but could not do anything to stop it, it scorches its way past the gap between bat and pad, the shatterer of stumps has five 137/9 43.4 to Otieno, 143.5 kph, it's all over for Kenya, they have been blown away by the marauder, another one sears in on the stumps, nothing can be done about it, it's destined to knock the leg stump out of its position, and does so, the batsman is only a sideshow, everything else is a sideshow, it is only Malinga, the ball, and the stumps, six wickets for the champion, the crowd roar their lungs out, got to feel for Kenya, their only mistake was to come in the way of Malinga and his targets 142/10
	KMDN Kulasekara	9	1	18	1	2.00
	1.2 to Ouma, Kula strikes with his second delivery! that inward movement from a length, he was pushing forward outside the line, was struck on the knee roll in front of the stumps, umpire gave him out right away, Ouma goes for the review, but that is hitting middle of middle, and Kenya's troubles continue 4/1
	AD Mathews	7	0	20	1	2.85	(1w)
	36.2 to Tikolo, Dilshan plucks a rocket out of the air, and is mighty pleased with it, it was short and wide, Angelo is lucky to get that one, it was bashed off the back foot hard and scorched its way to Dilshan at point. who took it cleanly around chest height, Angelo smiles, Tikolo walks back 120/4
	BAW Mendis	9	2	23	0	2.55
	M Muralitharan	8	0	24	1	3.00
	40.1 to DO Obuya, 74.4 kph, Murali jogs in, and bowls a flighted one from round the stumps, he goes down for the slog sweep, and picks out the man at deep midwicket with precision, looped away high in the air and came down in his hands nicely, Obuya is gone 127/5
	LPC Silva	3	0	12	0	4.00	(1w)

	Sri Lanka innings (target: 143 runs from 50 overs)		R	B	4s	6s	SR
	WU Tharanga	not out	67	59	12	0	113.55
	TM Dilshan	c †Ouma b Otieno	44	30	8	0	146.66
	8.2 Dilshan's perished to his uncontrollable aggression. He was setting himself up to hit a four or a six, irrespective of where the ball was. It was a pretty good short ball, directed at his body. Dilshan's arrested his huge backlift, and tried late to fend it to the off side, but the best thing to do with that ball would have been to defend or leave. He ended up squeezing it to the keeper. 72/1
	KC Sangakkara*†	not out	27	24	3	0	112.50
	Extras	(w 7, nb 1)	8
	Total	(1 wicket; 18.4 overs)	146	(7.82 runs per over)

Did not bat DPMD Jayawardene, TT Samaraweera, LPC Silva, AD Mathews, KMDN Kulasekara, M Muralitharan, SL Malinga, BAW Mendis

Fall of wickets1-72 (Dilshan, 8.2 ov)

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
	PJ Ongondo	3	0	28	0	9.33	(1w)
	NN Odhiambo	5	0	26	0	5.20
	SO Ngoche	4	0	39	0	9.75
	JK Kamande	1	0	14	0	14.00	(2w)
	E Otieno	4	0	26	1	6.50	(1nb, 1w)
	8.2 to Dilshan, Dilshan's perished to his uncontrollable aggression. He was setting himself up to hit a four or a six, irrespective of where the ball was. It was a pretty good short ball, directed at his body. Dilshan's arrested his huge backlift, and tried late to fend it to the off side, but the best thing to do with that ball would have been to defend or leave. He ended up squeezing it to the keeper. 72/1
	C Obuya		1.4	0	13	0	7.80	(1w)