Australia vs Sri Lanka Highlights, T20 World Cup 2022: Sensational Marcus Stoinis powers AUS to victory vs SL in Perth

Charith Asalanka is playing a crucial knock for the Islanders against Australia. Asalanka is unbeaten on 25 off 17 balls. Chamika Karunaratne has joined the in-form batter at the crease after the dismissal of Hasaranga. SL 126-6 after 18 overs. 

A short and wide delivery by Cummins. Asalanka slams it through cover for a four!

ANOTHER ONE!

A full delivery by Maxwell, on middle. Shanaka slams it over square leg. Wade shiffles and goes to his left to catch it!

Shanaka c Wade b Maxwell 3 (5)

A full length delivery by Starc, on fifth stump. Rajapaksa skies it to third man for a catch!

Rajapaksa c Cummins b Starc 7 (5)

A short delivery by Starc, and Rajapaksa slams it wide of deep fine leg for a four!

A short delivery by Agar, on off. Nissanka sends this to cover where Marsh relays it to the wicketkeeper. Asalnka was few steps from the non-striker's end and sold out Nissanka, who was left stranded halfway!

Nissanka run out Marsh/Wade 40 (45)

A short delivery by Marsh, on middle. Asalanka slams it through wide midwicket for a four!

A full length delivery by Marsh and Asalanka hammers it over mid-off for a six!

A full length delivery by Agar, on fourth. De Silva slams it over wide long-off. But Warner goes 25 yards to his left, does a bunny hop to take a catch! He is five yards inside the ropes!

De Silva c Warner b Agar 26 (23)

Back of a length delivery by Stoinis, on off. De Silva slices a thin edge wide of the wicketkeeper to the third man boundary for a four!

A full delivery by Starc, wide of off. Nissanka drives it down to long-off for a single!

A short delivery by Stoinis, Nissanka gets it to Agar's side, who didn't charge. One run and 50-up for Sri Lanka!

SL: 50/1 (8)

A poor delivery by Agar as De Silva gets down the track to drive it past the bowler. Goes straight past the diving fielder at long-off for a four!

SL: 43/1 (7)

De Silva: 11(9)*

Nissanka: 19(27)*

A full delivery by Hazlewood and Nissanka top edges it to the long-stop boundary for a four!

Back of a length delivery by Cummins, outside off. De Silva slams it backward of square on the off-side for a four, goes past David getting across from third man! FOUR!

A length delivery by Hazlewood, outside off. Nissanka defends it in front of point. No run

SL: 16/1 (3)

Nissanka: 8 (10)*

De Silva: 1 (2)*

A length delivery by Hazlewood, below the hips. Nissanka glances it over the deep square fence for a four!

Cummins delivery it around fifth, and Mendis tries to pull but can only sky it to midwicket for Marsh!

Mendis c Marsh b Cummins 5 (6)

A short of a length delivery by Cummins, wide of off. Mendis cuts but gets a thick edge over lone slip for a four!

Short of a length delivery by Hazlewood, at the stumps. Nissanka guides it behind square on the on-side for a single!

Nissanka and Mendis to open for Sri Lanka. Hazlewood to bowl the first over!

"We should be going back to our strengths. If and when we play New Zealand we will discuss a few things. Zampa is all right. We have four games in four different states in quick time. So just a precautionary thing. Gives Ashton a chance to play for Australia. Exciting back to be playing on a fast bouncy wicket. It is exciting to be back over here. Hopefully it is fast and bouncy and not as docile as the SCG. We would want to get our campaign back on track. It is one game at a time, cliched asides. First and foremost we need to win this game. For us it is just about this fixture to get our campaign back on track", said Starc.

Australia: David Warner, Aaron Finch(c), Mitchell Marsh, Glenn Maxwell, Marcus Stoinis, Tim David, Matthew Wade(w), Ashton Agar, Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood

Sri Lanka: Pathum Nissanka, Kusal Mendis(w), Dhananjaya de Silva, Charith Asalanka, Bhanuka Rajapaksa, Dasun Shanaka(c), Wanindu Hasaranga, Chamika Karunaratne, Maheesh Theekshana, Binura Fernando, Lahiru Kumara

After toss, Finch said, "We'll bowl first, that's the best strategy on this surface and we can't think too far away in the tournament as of now. Looks like a decent pitch with a good grass surface. Adam Zampa is OUT with illness, replaced by Ashton Agar."

Meanwhile, Sri Lanka captain Shanaka said, "We're excited and well-prepared, looking forward to this game. The camp is very confident since the Asia cup and we've performed consistently, have chased down good scores. We have Pathum Nissanka back, no other changes."

Australia captain has won the toss and opted to field vs Sri Lanka.