Record breaking Mendis stuns Australia Sri Lanka to 2-0 win

Sri Lanka to 2-0 win

Sri Lanka 157 for 9 (Jayawardene 86, Hastings 3-14, Lee 3-39) hit Australia 149 for 9 (Watson 57, Mendis 6-16) by eight runs

Ajantha Mendis puzzled the Australians with a amazing spell of spin bowling to help Sri Lanka win the 2nd T20I by 8 runs and confirm the series 2-0.

The Aussies had no answer to Mendis who ended up with wonderful figures of 6/16 to record the best ever bowling presentation in a Twenty20 International.

Mendis is now the only bowler to have taken 6 wickets in T20I match while better the figures of 5/6 by Umar Gul and 5/18 by Tim Southee.

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