Classy Sri Lanka outplay Scotland

World Cup warm-up, Barbados: Sri Lanka 294-7 beat Scotland 135 by 159 runs

Match scorecard

Dewald Nel and Upul Tharanga narrowly avoid a mid-pitch collision

Scotland battled hard but suffered defeat by a predictably wide margin in their World Cup warm-up match against Sri Lanka in Barbados.

Craig Wright's men managed some good moments but lost by 159 runs.

Sri Lanka were made to work for their 294-7, an innings featuring good knocks from Kumar Sangakkara (81), Sanath Jayasuriya (77) and Upul Tharanga (70).

But the target was well out reach once Scotland had lost three early wickets and they were all out for 135.

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Fraser Watts went lbw, pushing across a full ball from left-arm swing bowler Chaminda Vaas, and his opening partner Majid Haq had his off bail dislodged after missing an attempted off-drive against the the same bowler.

In between, number three Navdeep Poonia went for a second-ball duck - although he appeared to feel he had got some bat on a delivery from Lasith Malinga which had him out lbw.

That left Gavin Hamilton and Ryan Watson to try to repair the innings from 35-3 - which they managed to a degree until the latter was caught driving to cover off Farveez Maharoof.

Top scorer Hamilton (25) had a couple of mini-triumphs against Muttiah Muralitharan, driving the master off-spinner for four when he began his spell with a full toss and later reverse-sweeping another boundary.

That, though, was as good as it got for Wright's team.

The innings eventually petered out - especially after Hamilton chipped a simple catch to mid-on off Jayasuriya's left-arm spin - to 132 all out, Sri Lanka sharing out the wickets to win with almost nine overs unused.

Scotland could be satisfied earlier, however, that they never allowed themselves to be overrun in the field - despite some punishing hitting from Jayasuriya in particular.

Sri Lanka had chosen to bat first on a glorious morning which followed heavy overnight rain.

By the time the 100-run opening stand was up, Sri Lanka's second 50 had come in little more than four overs - and Scotland badly needed a wicket.

Dougie Brown did not let them down, a change of pace resulting in a Jayasuriya mis-hit to mid-on where skipper Wright kept his cool to collect the skied chance.

Captain Mahela Jayawardene was then smartly caught out of his ground by Colin Smith after under-edging an attempted drive at slow left-armer Glenn Rogers to the wicket-keeper.

Tharanga's 113-ball vigil finally ended with an upper-cut to third man off John Blain.

Chamara Silva and Tillekeratne Dilshan then went cheaply, leaving Sangakkara and all-rounder Maharoof to lead the final onslaught.