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Sri Lanka registers win

PROVIDENCE (Guyana): Mahela Jayawardene's classy century and Guyanese rains combined to give Sri Lanka a 14-run win over Zimbabwe on the Duckworth-Lewis method in their World Twenty20 Group B match here on Monday.

This was a match Sri Lanka, beaten first up by New Zealand, had to win to stay in the tournament.

Zimbabwe, playing its first match of the tournament, saw its innings halted by rain in the first over.

That left it with a revised target of 104 off 11 overs before rain halted the match at the five-over mark with Zimbabwe on 29 for one, rather than the 43 for one it needed for victory, following the early loss of Hamilton Masakadza to a farcical run-out. — AFP

Sri Lanka: 173 for seven wkts. in 20 overs

Zimbabwe (revised D/L target 44 in five overs): H. Masakadza (run out) 4 (6b), T. Taibu (not out) 12 (13b), B. Taylor (not out) 11 (11b); Extras (w-2): 2; Total (for one wkt. in five overs): 29.

Fall of wicket: 1-10.

Sri Lanka bowling: Mendis 2-0-9-0, Malinga 1-0-6-0, Jayasuriya 1-0-8-0, Randiv 1-0-6-0 .

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