Lasith Malinga [Srilankan most powerful pacer] has been able to become the maiden man to acquire three one-day international hat-tricks as Sri Lanka protected a comfortable win in the ultimate ODI in Colombo. Australia might have won the series 3-2 but with the first Test just over a week away, it was significant for Sri Lanka to terminate on a high, and they completed that through Malinga with the destructive ball, and then Mahela Jayawardene and Chamara Silva with the batting.
Targeting, 212, the hosts lost three early wickets but from then on were in tour control either side of a rain delay. Jayawardene all but saw them home with a long-suffering 71, before leaving with 17 runs left to attain when he skied a catch off Xavier Doherty. Silva batted splendidly in his 63, but the triumph was all down to Sri Lanka's bowling presentation, and particularly Malinga's hat-trick and the tail-end collapse that he instigated.
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